July 7, 2024
"During a campaign broadcast on NHK, Airi Uchino, the young entrepreneur, removed a striped, button-down shirt to reveal her cleavage in a cream-colored tube top."
"'I’m not just cute,' she purred, inviting prospective voters to connect with her on Line, Japan’s popular messaging app. 'I’m sexy, right?' Ms. Uchino is backed by the Party to Protect the People from NHK, a renegade group that is supporting close to half of those running for governor. The group has permitted its candidates and some others to post campaign posters featuring photos of cats or cartoon animals on the official election signboards...."
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Free NPR version of the story. No pictures that really show the titillating story, but it is the internet, so maybe you can find one. [fixed html]
Googled Ms Uchino and clicked open images hoping to get a peak at the cleavage. The sign language interpreter behind her is just classic in her facial responses. I'm still smiling.
A parallel campaign called the Party to Protect the People from NPR could do well in America. At least they would be less ill-informed.
A shirt with buttons is called a shirt.
If it's an Oxford it's also a button down.
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
My only surprise is that the weaponization of e-girls took this long.
It's the messy side of democracy but what do you do to keep only "serious" contenders from appearing on the ballot? (Apparently you do have to pay a deposit of around $18K to appear on the ballot and you don't get it back if you don't get at least 10% of the vote). That's a process that can be manipulated by undemocratic forces. It's sort of like the call for cognitive tests for Presidential candidates.
I read an article on Bloomberg's site:
Among the remaining 54 candidates is a man dressed as The Joker, who supports freedom of sexual expression, including allowing polygamy to help Japan’s falling birth rate. He even enlisted the help of a model to promote himself, and used explicit posters that were later taken down. Other figures include a masked “internet comedian,”; “AI Mayor,” a former professional wrestler whose posters display a metallic robot; and a female candidate from the “Poker Party” who advocates for economic and political change through the card game.
How would introducing polygamy result in more babies? I'm not following that logic. But I also don't really understand the poker theory for effecting change either.
Japanese politics, it seems more fun and interesting than ours.
Democracy earns a booby prize.
@Heartless Aztec beat me to it. New Japan, versus Old Japan. If the sign language lady was feeling wicked, she would have pointed to the cleavage, because it as modest as one might expect from a Japanese lady.
Still, it's good seeing the young people kicking off their traces.
The raving looney party over there
Mind you the ldp hasnt figured the solution to the 90s bust is to stop spending but then again few have
how many would appreciate Kamala doing Phryne for votes from jury of electors?
Found the video on X. I think the sign language lady was translating “My eyes are up here!”
Delectable demos-cracy, or progressive liberalism the cynic would mumble.
Sally327 asked...
"How would introducing polygamy result in more babies?"
I think someone saw surveys like this one, and their male fantasies kicked in: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01932/
"more men than women were of the opinion that they did not want children." If you look at the bar graphs the difference is not large, though.
"However, of the women who thought this, 25.5% stated they 'want to keep the possibility of having children open'." So a significant number of the women are open to having children, even if they don't want one at the current point in time.
NYT seems to have forgotten the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.
The line characters are everywhere.
The Japanese are odd (in a good way)...
In our recent mayoral elections, there were over 100 candidates. In theory, someone could have won with only a few percent of the vote. There were fears that an unknown with a core of dedicated support (i.e., someone in the immigrant community) might shock everyone. There was a candidate who ran a goofy campaign in the hopes that enough people would vote for him as a joke (if you only need 5%…).
But as it worked out, the top 3 candidates, all of whom were mediocre functionaries who spent their lives in local government, won over 90% of the vote and nobody else came close to mattering.
From the article, "The proliferation of candidates could reflect fatigue with politics as usual, but many of the hopefuls were also unserious attention seekers, creating a farcical, circuslike atmosphere and putting real change further out of reach."
How would the writer know this would put real change further out of reach?
Tube tops reveal cleavage? You don't wear them like a teddy.
The MSM seems to publish two kinds of articles about Japan:
1) The Japanese aren't diverse enough and dont want immigrants (boo)
2) Oh, those weird/kooky Japanese.
Imagine them writing these kinds of Articles about Israel. Or writing about how strange and weird NYC or Martha Vinyard is. BTW, I like reading about Japan, I just with the articles were always written with the unlying assumption of liberal/left Western superiority.
Even when I was teenager I hated those Morely Safer, "Oh, those wacky foreigners" segments he'd do on 60 minutes.
Alas, she is more capable of handing the duties of Tokyo mayor than Biden.
Reminds me of the special election that occurred in California after, Gray Davis, was recalled. A whole bunch of peculiar people were running. I think that was the one that Schwarzenegger won. I like seeing odd candidates run. It can be used as a gauge for how some people view the main parties, and reassures folks that it really is a democracy.
Blogger Ralph L said...
Tube tops reveal cleavage? You don't wear them like a teddy.
Maybe they meant décolletage.
When murkowski ran in 2010 there wrre 157 candidates
Even the President of the United State
Sometimes has to stand naked, which he did.
Weird Japanese political candidate hopefuls?
We have Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters.
Pot - Kettle.
What can you do when there are no babies to kiss.
In my relatively vast experience in such matters, I confidently declare that Japanese girls and young women are the most delightfully silly people on the planet.
If you can't make them giggle or laugh till they shame themselves (which will make them laugh even more), you are either dead or seriously creepy.
I wonder what % of men (I did) went into the story to see if there was a picture of the lady in the tube top.
In the early 80s I was stationed in Japan for 18 months, their culture is fascinating. I remember watching some Japanese TV interviewer asking American college students who Douglas MacArthur was. The American kids didn’t have a clue. MacArthur essentially drafted the Japanese constitution. He’s probably still a big deal over there.
IMHO, Airi Is not cute. And ahe is tattooed, adding to her not cuteness.
YMMV. I will add that I have exactly the opposite of an Asian fetish.
But would she better or worse at governing then any other candidate in that race? No clue.
The Italians elected a port star to their parliament. And let's not forget how our current VPOTUS and now potential POTUS and demoncRAT nominee got her start. Fully approved by the NY Slimes. So they have no room to criticize her antics.
Porn was automiscorrected to port...
I was told that Japanese kids did not f*ck.
What i learned from this is that a skit about Japanese sign language may be funny. Samurai speech interpreter, complete with katana.
MacArthur essentially drafted the Japanese constitution. He’s probably still a big deal over there.
I have a worn copy of that constitution within reach (bottom right-hand drawer of this desk).
Article 9 is the heart of it.
I did a speech that referred to it for Commander, USFJ, about the time you were in country.
Note to David53... any chance you were at Yokota or one of the other Tokyo outposts?
I had a second office in the old Sanno Hotel, and, in the moonlight hours, contributed two or three pages for the expat bible, Corky Alexander's Weekender.
The lead for the speech was a reverent recollection of two wise men, General MacArthur and The Emperor Hirohito, who, after a long and tragic war, united to choose peace instead of resistance and partnership instead of retribution.
Their decisions and respect for each other became the foundation for Japan and America's mutual prosperity, defense and close and enduring friendship.
I kinda went out on a limb with that since not every American was a MacArthur Fanboy and because any "opinion" of the Emperor was strictly off-limits in Japanese media and commentary.
The day after, I asked the Boss how the speech was received. He laughed and said, "I think it went OK. Mike Mansfield (then our Ambassador to Japan) came up to me and told me he was stealing it and intended to use it often."
Note to David53... any chance you were at Yokota or one of the other Tokyo outposts?
I was a Russian linguist stationed on Okinawa, we flew RC-135s out of Kadena. Used to be part of Electronic Security Command which no longer exists.
MacArthur was a narcissistic SOB, but he was brilliant. I can't imagine what Japan would be like today without his guidance and Article 9.
I was a Russian linguist stationed on Okinawa, we flew RC-135s out of Kadena.
Interesting. Sounds like you might have been part of FBIS. A mountain of that raw product crossed my desk and, in part, inspired a daily five-or six-pager to the other end of the info chain. Those translators did great work!
BTW, I'm 100 percent with your view of MacArthur. Manchester's "American Caesar" is among the most dog-eared items on my bookshelves.
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