{"id":8648,"date":"2011-03-16T02:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2011-03-17T05:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:44:40","slug":"tokyo-gov-ishihara-calls-the-tsunami-divine-punishment-in-order-to-wipe-out-the-egoism-of-the-japanese-as-if-you-needed-more-evidence-of-his-senility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8648","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Gov Ishihara calls the tsunami “divine punishment” to wipe out the “egoism” of Japan. Need more evidence of his senility? Yet he’s running for election again."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. \u00a0If you needed further evidence of already preternaturally-bigoted Tokyo Governor Ishihara’s<\/a> creeping senility<\/a>, get a load of this:<\/p>\n

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The Japan Times Wednesday, March 16, 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n

Ishihara sorry for quake gaffe<\/h1>\n
Kyodo News<\/div>\n
http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20110316a8.html<\/a><\/div>\n
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Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara apologized Tuesday for his remark that the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami last week represented “divine punishment” of the Japanese people who have been tainted with egoism.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“I will take back (the remark) and offer a deep apology,” Ishihara said, adding that he should have thought about the feelings of the victims.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai showed displeasure with Ishihara, telling reporters he hopes the Tokyo governor will consider the people affected by the disaster.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Japanese politics is tainted with egoism and populism. We need to use tsunami to wipe out egoism, which has rusted onto the mentality of Japanese over a long period of time,” Ishihara, who is seeking re-election for a fourth term on April 10, told reporters Monday. “I think (the disaster) is ‘tembatsu’ (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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COMMENT<\/strong>: This from a man who claimed in public a decade ago that foreigners in Japan would riot in the event of a natural disaster (er, such as this one?) and that the SDF should be deployed to round them up<\/a> — and also questioned the kokutai loyalties of citizens who have foreign roots<\/a>. \u00a0It seems this time, by issuing an unusual retraction (you think he’ll ever retract the foreigner riots claim now that it hasn’t happened?), he realized that this particular Senior Moment was going too far.<\/p>\n

But this old fool has long lost the mental software governing prudence befitting a person in high office. \u00a0For a milder (but concrete) example, check out this video, where Ishihara gets all snitty because he was trying to make another speech about how the world was not going the way he wants it (when asked to offer a few seconds of encouragement to runners in this year’s Tokyo Marathon on February 27). Watch to the very end where you hear him characteristically grumbling about being cut off mid-rant:<\/p>\n

Ishihara2011tokyomarathon<\/a><\/p>\n

(click on the link above to open video, courtesy Dave Spector)<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, as you read above,\u00a0this 78-year-old is running once again for the Tokyo Governorship<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Some societies have a built-in conservative bent, but if the Tokyo electorate puts this decrepit bigoted coot back in office for yet another term, I will fear for the sanity of the Tokyo public. \u00a0We have mandatory retirement ages for Japanese bureaucrats. \u00a0We’ve even enforced them on some politicians (cf. former PMs Miyazawa and Nakasone, who were eliminated in 2003 despite re-election thanks to the LDP introducing an age limit of 73<\/a>). \u00a0I think we should have them enforced in this case as well. \u00a0We need people who not only do not live in the past, but also live on this plane of existence. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyodo: Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara apologized Tuesday for his remark that the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami last week represented “divine punishment” of the Japanese people who have been tainted with egoism.<\/p>\n

COMMENT: This from a man who claimed in public a decade ago that foreigners in Japan would riot in the event of a natural disaster (er, such as this one?) and that the SDF should be deployed to round them up — and also questioned the kokutai loyalties of citizens who have foreign roots. It seems this time, by issuing an unusual retraction (you think he’ll ever retract the foreigner riots claim now that it hasn’t happened?), he realized that this particular Senior Moment was going too far.<\/p>\n

But this old fool has long lost the mental software governing prudence befitting a person in high office. For a milder (but concrete) example, check out this video, where Ishihara gets all snitty because he was trying to make another speech about how the world was not going the way he wants it (when asked to offer a few seconds of encouragement to runners in this year’s Tokyo Marathon on February 27). Watch to the very end where you hear him characteristically grumbling about being cut off mid-rant:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,26,4,14,53,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-unsustainable-japanese-society","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}