The best TV shot mixing glam and government reform was of a grizzled Japaneserock star with flowing white hair and out-sized sunglasses handing flowers to her at a committee hearing, swooning in adulation over a clearly embarrassed Renho.
It said markets had been hit by a combination of factors including the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the USA's interest in shale gas, which is extracted from shale rock using the controversial process of fracking.
He followed that up with Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, starring rock star David Bowie and Tom Conti as WWII prisoners of war, interned in a Japanese camp.