"Makoto Watanabe" may refer to:

* , Grand Chamberlain of Japan in 1996, Chief of Protocol of Ministry of Foreign Affairs

* Makoto Watanabe, pilot of Japan Airlines Flight 907, involved in the 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident

* Makoto Watanabe (artist), featured in Tokyoten

* Makoto Watanabe, a member of the studio board of directors for the Japanese animation studio Bones (studio)/Bones

* (1950-), architect, visiting professor at

* (1952-), architect based in Tokyo.

* (1948-2003), French cuisine chef who worked for Imperial Household Agency

* (1980-), soccer player.

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He will see this as the democratic mechanism giving him the right to push through with policies that he has already pitched as well as more that he might yet come up with before he leaves office.

It will be very easy for Koizumi to handle everything for the next 12 months, ... I think he will be a very happy man.

I am sure that the Japanese government will be very pleased that message and image are being sent out.

To be honest, whatever the viewer figures are I'd suggest they are inflated because of the habit among Japanese housewives of just turning the TV on in the morning and leaving it on all day.