Osaka: "remove your tattoos" (if possible)

[grungy-gonads 54]

He's going to have a harder time preaching to people about their personal lives now hey.

 

[xxx 2]

What did he do?

[grungy-gonads 54]

Went out for meals and 「男女 relations」 with a (hostess?) woman just before he was mayor a few years back.

He has a wife and 7 kids.

[JA2340 16]

Back top the tattoo topic (sorry, I thought we should get back there sometime soon :wink: ) ...

What is the appeal of having a permanent reminder of how stupoid you were when you were pi$$ed?

OR, why do they insist on rolling themselves in newspaper until the print rubs off?

[pie-eater 207]

It's a 'conform' thing, JA.

 

Not here in Japan, yet, where they are still relatively rare.

[KlingKlang 1]

I feel that under the very clever words and o-jozu handling of media etc, he's a real slimeball.

[JA2340 16]

It's a 'conform' thing, JA.

 

Not here in Japan, yet, where they are still relatively rare.

Ah ... it's a way to show how "non-conformist" you are by conforming to the social norms?

 

Got it!

[big-will 7]

I see Osaka's Hashimoto coming up with more poorly judged comments:

 

A prominent Japanese politician has described as "necessary" the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops.

 

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said the "comfort women" gave soldiers putting their lives at risk a chance "to rest".

 

He acknowledged that the women had been acting "against their will".

 

Some 200,000 women in territories occupied by Japan during WWII are estimated to have been forced into becoming sex slaves for troops.

 

Many of the women came from China and South Korea, but also from the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.

 

Japan's treatment of its wartime role has been a frequent source of tension with its neighbours.

 

Mr Hashimoto, the co-founder of the nationalist Japanese Restoration Party, was the youngest governor in Japanese history before becoming mayor of Osaka.

 

He said last year that Japan needed "a dictatorship".

 

In his latest controversial comments, quoted by Japanese media, he said: "In the circumstances in which bullets are flying like rain and wind, the soldiers are running around at the risk of losing their lives,"

 

"If you want them to have a rest in such a situation, a comfort women system is necessary. Anyone can understand that."

 

He also claimed that Japan was not the only country to use the system, though it was responsible for its actions.

 

He said he backed a 1995 statement by Japan's then-PM Tomiichi Murayama, in which he apologised for its wartime actions in Asia.

 

"It is a result of the tragedy of the war that they became comfort women against their will. The responsibility for the war also lies with Japan. We have to politely offer kind words to [former] comfort women."

[Tubby Beaver 209]

wot a tool.

[HeatherLocklearRocks 1]

Right wing nationalists annoy me.

 

Wherever they're from.

[brit-gob 9]

That dude's a nightmare.

Imagine him and the ex Tokyo bloke together in power.

[mina2 6]

That Hashimoto is such a slimeball.

 

I hope his popularity takes a big dent.

[Chriselle 158]

Stick a fork in em....he's done.

[OzOzOz 2]

Let's hope so