Instead, they snipeat his foreign minister, the redoubtable Makiko Tanaka, a woman whose outspokenness is unsettling those who prefer Japan's usual ultra-cautious diplomacy.
On sale today, a host of major media outlets have jumped at the opportunity to praise the design, to credit Microsoft and to snipeat Apple and the iPad.
This made some greens snipeat him, but it also made Walmart send two of its senior people round to his factory in LaGrange to see what he was doing right.
