A game developer is cashing in on former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned following an allegedly drunken appearance at a news conference at the end of the Group of Seven meeting in Rome earlier this month.
Played on a cell phone, the object of “Exhausted Minister Dozing at a News Conference” is to raise Nakagawa’s support rate by keeping him awake when a reporter asks him a question during a news conference, LiveWare Inc. spokesman Yohei Shinra said Monday.
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