His boss has not just made a virtue of fiscal vagueness ; as the election nears , mr romney has seen his poll ratings rise as his tax-and-spending plans become ever-vaguer .
The prime minister 's vagueness means that it is probably overdoing it to suggest that japan is definitively shifting away from its postwar special relationship with the us .
The only concession to the government 's ban was an unusual vagueness about where exactly this year 's event would take place : your correspondent bumped through the bush for hours asking directions of passing nomads before arriving just before sunset .