Japanese Leader Shunned for Western-Style Crisis Management

I found this from yesterday:

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has adopted a Western approach to solving his country's deep crisis. In doing so, he is violating Japan's traditional rules -- and putting his credibility on the line.

The opposition and most Japanese media organizations accuse the prime minister of having delivered a pathetic and thoroughly un-Japanese solo "performance," a word so alien to the island people that there is no equivalent in Japanese, except the Japanese version of the English word: "pafoomansu."

Here is the link, read it with care, its from Spiegel
www.spiegel.de...

"un-Japanese" ... I find no words to express my consternation about that.