President Obama is coming to Japan in a week, and there are two happy news.
The Japanese baseball player Matsui churned out six (!) points for the Yankees' final game in the World Series. He was chosen as MVP. Great. But it is a pity for the Japanese that American people consider him as an American player.

The second good news is that the late Michael Jackson's new movie "This is it" has earned 10 million dollars in Japan (in five days only!); this sum is the second largest only after thirty million dollars in the U.S. For Hollywood Japan still is the most important overseas market.

With such happy news in the background many Japanese are looking forward to seeing President Obama as symbol of the hope for economic recovery and for reestablishment of the values like freedom and democracy.