Taro Aso, Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and a self-confessed manga addict, may be seeing a REBERU APPU soon. According to Japan Probe, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is going to resign, presumably due to an expected defeat in the matter of assisting the U.S. navally in Afghanistan, or something.

But obviously the more important part is this: Japan Probe also states that Taro Aso is the person most likely to become Prime Minister after Shinzo Abe. So those of you who don’t like the Japanese government using anime and manga as a major culture export? Get used to it, I guess…