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 Posted: Thu 08 Mar 2007 16:14 Post subject: The Mayor of Tokyo: Satan Spawn Shitaro Ishihara |
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People talk about right wing politicians rising in Europe (France, UK, Austria, Russia) but I have never heard a politician speak as much vile racist and sexist filth as the Mayor of Tokyo, and he is widly popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara#Racism
When I lived there (2001-2002) I saw him speaking in front of Shinjuku Station (the largest Metro station) which is common for politicians in Japan, he was promoting someone else…he said something like “Look overthere as Kabuki-cho (Redlight district less than half a mile away) the center of Sankokujin (third world) criminality, especially that of the Zainichi (Koreans born in Japan). I tell you if there is a major earthquake they will run wild in the streets of Japan like the Mongols, raping and looting like animals.”
Oh but wait...it gets better:
| Quote: | In the 1983 general election, Ishihara's first public secretary (Toshiki Kurihara) violated the public office election law by pasting 5000 black seals which read "Shokei Arai came from North Korea" on election posters of rival candidate Shokei Arai.[citation needed] Arai and Ishihara belonged to same party (LDP) and both were competing for the same election district (Tokyo-2). Kurihara was soon arrested by the police, but Ishihara did not acknowledge any connection with this violation, and did not apologize to Arai. [citation needed]
On April 9, 2000, in a speech before an SDF group, Ishihara publicly speculated that in the event a natural disaster struck the Tokyo area, foreigners would be likely to cause civil disorder, and stated that illegal immigrants in the Tokyo area were a major cause of crime. He referred to these immigrants as sangokujin (Japanese: 三国人; "third world person"), a term commonly viewed as derogatory.[2] Regarding this statement, Ishihara later said:
I referred to the "many sangokujin who entered Japan illegally." I thought some people would not know that word so I paraphrased it and used gaikokujin, or foreigners. But it was a newspaper holiday so the news agencies consciously picked up the sangokujin part, causing the problem.
... After World War II, when Japan lost, the Chinese of Taiwanese origin and people from the Korean Peninsula persecuted, robbed and sometimes beat up Japanese. It's at that time the word was used, so it was not derogatory. Rather we were afraid of them.
... There's no need for an apology. I was surprised that there was a big reaction to my speech. In order not to cause any misunderstanding, I decided I will no longer use that word. It is regrettable that the word was interpreted in the way it was. [3]
Much of the criticism of this statement involved the historical significance of the term: sangokujin historically referred to ethnic Chinese and Koreans, working in Japan, many of whom were actually attacked by mobs of Japanese people following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.[2]
Ishihara has made several other derogatory statements about non-Japanese. For instance, in a highly publicized statement at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 25, 2006, he said: "I hate Mickey Mouse. He has nothing like the unique sensibility that Japan has. The Japanese are inherently skilled at visual expression and detailed work."[9] On February 20, 2006, Ishihara also said: "Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans — I don't mean African-Americans — who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent."[10]
[edit] Other controversial statements
Ishihara stated in a 2001 interview with women's magazine Shukan Josei that he subscribed to a theory that "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin," adding that he "couldn't say this as a politician." He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by "tyrant" "old women."[11]
During an inauguration of a university building in 2004, Ishihara stated that French is unqualified as an international language because it is "a language in which nobody can count," referring to the counting system in French, which he believed to be based on units of twenty rather than ten (as is the case in Japanese and English). The statement led to a lawsuit from several language schools in 2005. Ishihara subsequently responded to comments that he did not disrespect French culture by professing his love of French literature on Japanese TV news. [12]
In the 1983 general election, Ishihara's first public secretary (Toshiki Kurihara) violated the public office election law by pasting 5000 black seals which read "Shokei Arai came from North Korea" on election posters of rival candidate Shokei Arai.[citation needed] Arai and Ishihara belonged to same party (LDP) and both were competing for the same election district (Tokyo-2). Kurihara was soon arrested by the police, but Ishihara did not acknowledge any connection with this violation, and did not apologize to Arai. [citation needed]
On April 9, 2000, in a speech before an SDF group, Ishihara publicly speculated that in the event a natural disaster struck the Tokyo area, foreigners would be likely to cause civil disorder, and stated that illegal immigrants in the Tokyo area were a major cause of crime. He referred to these immigrants as sangokujin (Japanese: 三国人; "third world person"), a term commonly viewed as derogatory.[2] Regarding this statement, Ishihara later said:
I referred to the "many sangokujin who entered Japan illegally." I thought some people would not know that word so I paraphrased it and used gaikokujin, or foreigners. But it was a newspaper holiday so the news agencies consciously picked up the sangokujin part, causing the problem.
... After World War II, when Japan lost, the Chinese of Taiwanese origin and people from the Korean Peninsula persecuted, robbed and sometimes beat up Japanese. It's at that time the word was used, so it was not derogatory. Rather we were afraid of them.
... There's no need for an apology. I was surprised that there was a big reaction to my speech. In order not to cause any misunderstanding, I decided I will no longer use that word. It is regrettable that the word was interpreted in the way it was. [3]
Much of the criticism of this statement involved the historical significance of the term: sangokujin historically referred to ethnic Chinese and Koreans, working in Japan, many of whom were actually attacked by mobs of Japanese people following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.[2]
Ishihara has made several other derogatory statements about non-Japanese. For instance, in a highly publicized statement at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 25, 2006, he said: "I hate Mickey Mouse. He has nothing like the unique sensibility that Japan has. The Japanese are inherently skilled at visual expression and detailed work."[9] On February 20, 2006, Ishihara also said: "Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans — I don't mean African-Americans — who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent."[10]
[edit] Other controversial statements
Ishihara stated in a 2001 interview with women's magazine Shukan Josei that he subscribed to a theory that "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin," adding that he "couldn't say this as a politician." He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by "tyrant" "old women."[11]
During an inauguration of a university building in 2004, Ishihara stated that French is unqualified as an international language because it is "a language in which nobody can count," referring to the counting system in French, which he believed to be based on units of twenty rather than ten (as is the case in Japanese and English). The statement led to a lawsuit from several language schools in 2005. Ishihara subsequently responded to comments that he did not disrespect French culture by professing his love of French literature on Japanese TV news. [12]
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He has said other things too, like America ships its low class blacks and Hispanics to Japan (speaking of the military) to commit crimes against Japanese people... 
Now you would think if a guy like this is so popular there would be Japanese hate groups roaming the streets like in Russia, but it is exactly opposite...well for now. It is one of those things I still don't understand about Japan, no matter how much my wife tries to explain it.
He also routinely says Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are all different races. |
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