I was always told "Don't touch other people's things"

Obviously former Minister for Agriculture Masatoshi Wakabayashi wasn't told that enough when he was a little boy.

I would not expect you to know who he is and of his former post and neither did I until I turned on the news this evening.
When I turned on my telly this evening a portly man who was sweating profusely while answering questions from reporters after it was announced that he quit his post.
The reason for his departure from the parliament was that he was sprung pressing the buttons of his fellow member of parliament.

Not in the figurative sense either.

In the Japanese parliament, decisions are voted are using an electronic system where members push one of the buttons in front of them on their desk.
The 75 year old(I do not care where you are from, that is way too old to be a politician) managed to, no less than 10 times, press the buttons of his next door neighbour in his absence.

He made the comments that "I thought he would come back and so I pressed his buttons" and "All I can say is that I gave into temptation".

The interesting thing is rather than being kicked out, his application for resignation was actually accepted. At least that was the impression that I got from the evening news.

Two things that I can say about this comedy of political scandal is one; that I hope that he is punished in some way and not rewarded with any kind of pension for his contributions previous to this and the other is that I am glad that I do not have to vote in this country.

Despite the fact that I am not Japanese, even if I was, with clowns like this in parliament I would definitely stay away from the polling booths.