WHAT do Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's prisoner-of-conscience Peter Bethune and China's Mr Conviviality, Premier Wen Jiabao, have in common?
In Tokyo, hordes of horrendously amplified nationalist ranters and probably a headache at the end of each day.
Yesterday, Mr Wen and New Zealand's most infamous son (in Japan) were barely 1500m apart and for those in between it was an excruciating aural experience.
Mr Bethune is on trial at the District Court in Kasumigaseki.
The anti-whaling activist booked his date with Japanese justice by rashly leaping aboard Shonan Maru in the Southern Ocean in February, the patrol vessel having earlier run down and destroyed his $3 million speedboat.
Upholders of traditional values - such as citizens group the Society for the Restoration of Sovereignty - don't often get the opportunity to give the likes of Mr Bethune an earful and they are raucously making the most of it.
