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Nithin Coca నితిన్ (ncoca@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 16:36:31 JST Nithin Coca నితిన్

So, Japan's Minister of Defense is Gen Nakatani. NOT "General" Nakatani as this article states wrongly states several times.
More amazingly, somehow this author is based in #Japan and written books on Japan-#India security relations, but can't even get the name of a key, longtime cabinet member right?
https://www.eurasiareview.com/09052025-gen-natakanis-visit-to-india-scaling-up-india-japan-defence-ties-analysis/

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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 16:36:30 JST Aral Balkan
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  @ncoca Possibly an editorial error by an editor who thought Gen was a mistake?
  
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  Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 22:41:39 JST Minoru Saba
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  @ncoca It seems Gen Nakatani was a lieutenant in the JGSDF before starting out on a political career, but presumably wasn't mistaken for a lieutenant general by his peers.
  https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E8%B0%B7%E5%85%83
  Was reminded of Maj. Major in "Catch 22" and Lieutenant Kijé.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Major_Major_Major
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Kij%C3%A9
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    Major Major Major Major is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22. He was named "Major Major Major" by his father, as a joke – passing up such lesser possibilities as "Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C Sharp Major". Once he joined the army during World War II, he was quickly promoted to the rank of Major due to "an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's". His full name and rank are the title of chapter 9. He has an uncanny resemblance to real-life actor Henry Fonda, which scholar Philip D. Beidler calls "one of the novel's great absurd jokes". In the novel Heller echoes the eponymous character in Edwin Arlington Robinson's 1910 poem "Miniver Cheevy" in his initial description of Maj. Major as "born too late and too mediocre". The character is further described as having "three strikes against him from the beginning – his mother, his father, and Henry Fonda, to whom he bore a sickly resemblance almost from the moment of his birth. Long before he even suspected who Henry Fonda was, he found himself the subject of unflattering comparisons...
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    Lieutenant Kijé
    
    Lieutenant Kijé or Kizhe (Russian: Пору́чик Киже́, translit. Poruchik Kizhe), originally Kizh (Киж), is a fictional character in an anecdote about the reign of Emperor Paul I of Russia, in which the cover up of a transcription error leads to the creation of a fictional soldier, Kijé, and his rise through the ranks. When Paul asks to meet the now renowned officer, the creators of the hoax are cornered into a final lie that the soldier has died in battle. The story was used as the basis of a novella by Yury Tynyanov published in 1928 and filmed in 1934 with music by Sergei Prokofiev. The plot is a satire on bureaucracy. Original version The first appearance of the anecdote is in Vladimir Dahl's "Stories of the time of Paul I" (Russian: Рассказы о временах Павла I), a short piece published in the journal Russkaya Starina in 1870; he reported it as told by his father, Jochan Christian von Dahl (1764-1821). In this original version, a clerk miswrites an order promoting several ensigns (praporshchiki) to second lieutenants (podporuchiki): instead...

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