On hand in Verizon's room were a quintet from the "PMS Crew, " an all-girl (or is it grrrrl?) team of professional video-gamers showing off the company's Fios-fueled on-demand gaming and Arcade services.
The best PMs are certainly product-obsessed, examining coffee mugs at meetings and wondering out loud how to design a more better-designed coffee cup or carefully dis-assembling a new hand-held video-game to see how it works.
Hence, he is not the scion of a political dynasty like four of the past five Japanese PMs. When he entered politics to gain a seat in the Chiba Prefecture legislature, he had no pre-existing political organization or, critically, financial base.