That according to the caption of the photo here, the new Prime Minister of Japan is a Catholic.
In other news coming from Asia, the situation for the Church in VIetnam is not getting any better:

Goon squads went into action last night in Hanoi. About a hundred thugs raided the prayer vigil held by Thai Ha faithful under the indifferent eye of some 500 police agents—they destroyed a chapel, sullied a statue of Our Lady with motor oil and proffered threats against the people who were praying. The same thing had happened at night on Friday when another bunch of thugs attacked the faithful, ransacked St Gerard chapel and an outdoor altar, destroying statues and images despite a police presence.
“The attackers were shouting slogans, calling for the murder of the archbishops and Thai Ha superior, Fr Matthew Vu Khoi Phung,” said the Redemptorists.
Yesterday the chairman of Hanoi’s People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao threatened to “severely punish” the archbishop of Hanoi, Mgr Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, and all those like him for “stirring up the population, launching false accusations against the government, mocking the law and dividing the nation.”

Thao was particularly enraged by the protest letter the archbishop sent to Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet, its prime minister and the head of the religious Affairs Commission in which he “made false accusations against the city government” according to which the latter had violated the law. Chairman Thao accused the archbishop of challenging the state with claims that Catholics “had a right to use very means to protect our property.” Making matters worse, the used loud speaker to read the letter.