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Japan's Foreign Minister proposed some changes to the Nobel Prize lineup during an interview with the press in Washington recently. The wily LDP stalwart began the conference with a warning against rising nationalism in Korea and China.
"China and Korea are treading the fine line between patriotism, which is love for Japan, and nationalism, which leads to being colonised by Japan. They would do well to sort out the difference before we revoke our war-denouncing constitution and unveil our nuclear arsenal."
Aso initially proposed a Nobel Prize for Manga, or Japanese comics.
"This is a logical addition to the Nobel Prize categories," the minister explained, "because manga was invented in Japan and non-Japanese would not be eligible for the prize."

Aso went on to suggest a list of prizes that could be included in the exclusive Swedish -based organisation's list of awards:
Nobel Prize for Anime
Nobel Prize for J-Pops
Nobel Prize for Cherry Blossoms
Nobel Prize for Group Harmony
Nobel Prize for Samurai Spirit
Nobel Prize for Shinto Shrines
Nobel Prize for Atomic Bomb victims
Nobel Prize for Scientific Whaling
Nobel Prize for being Japanese
Nobel Prize for Japanese Foreign Minister sitting currently

Aso went on to criticise the Nobel Prize committee of blatant nationalism.
"The committee has continually exhibited a bias against Japanese by failing to be swayed in accordance with traditional checkbook diplomacy," the Foreign Minister said. "Without mentioning the country concerned, it sounds like those Swedes are a bunch of racist hypocrites to me." Aso also rebuked two reporters present of Asian appearance for looking like "a couple of nationalistic ching-chongs who were secretly failing to worship the Emperor in their hearts."

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