At This Late Date, the Charleston Page #2

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- Right?

- Yes.

You guys...

Listen. I'm serious...

really serious.

We're all ministers...

of a tiny and

independent country,

seriously.

That's a bit...

no, very...

funny, right?

The Japanese government isn't?

It's reliable?

- It...

- ...isn't!

Lots of lies, lots of deception.

- Internal quarrels.

- Also towards foreign countries.

Not handsome.

But easy to draw.

Shut up.

Or you'll smell gunpowder.

Aren't you the Army Minister?

So what?

That's also a question of looks.

A matter of physiognomy.

What?

Now...

it's become obvious.

The problem began when the Three

Anti-Nuclear Principles were changed.

They've lied to us...

for 26 years.

We're bored,

so we set up this independent state.

It's half serious, half for fun.

An "Independence Game".

Then a "Cabinet Game".

That's how it started.

I'm the eldest,

so I'm the Prime Minister.

Foreign Minister...

should be you, Hota.

You were an insurance salesman.

Asaya, you sold stationery.

Education Minister.

Takikawa, you were a postman.

Mail Minister.

Cabinet Secretary.

You're the youngest.

You were a kimono store head.

Mochida, it's you.

With that,

things went smoothly, but...

What's wrong, Prime Minister?

Kodaira.

During the war,

you were on a suicide squad.

Before your mission,

the war ended.

Now you go in and out of prison.

Up to now, 7 times.

No.

Sorry.

After 8 times,

you're now a good citizen.

How about the Health Minister?

You like that?

No.

I want to be Chief of Police.

That's sarcastic.

Cynical and funny!

Thinking in the same direction,

Army Minister is more interesting!

Prime Minister!

That doesn't work!

Our country is...

without war and anti-war.

And we hoist the flags

of real peace!

To hoist those flags,

an Army Minister is necessary,

Foreign Minister.

When I hear the words

of "Army Minister",

Whenever I remember

some professors saying,

"A country without military

power is not a country!"

I feel a chill.

Goose pimples! Look!

Where?

What I want...

isn't military power,

but deterrence power.

Because our country...

will be surrounded by Japan and others.

When that time comes,

we have no allies.

What to do?

So deterrence power...

means defending

against foreign invasion?

Oh.

Deterrence power.

What country is it?

Yamatai.

Where is it?

Is it... here?

Also here.

We were drifters.

Drifting here and there.

To where there is work.

We've been to many places.

Underpasses of

Sanya, Ueno, Shinjuku.

So you're vagabonds.

Hey!

Now we have our territory.

And our border.

Why are you here?

Today,

we paid a state visit...

to the Diet of Japan.

Before we left,

we ate at the senators' canteen.

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