My Idol

[ultragaijin]

Marutei Tsurunen (http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=192638)

(To quote ALi G (http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/alig/Default.asp)) Respect, Gaijin brother!

[japslapper]

http://homepage2.nifty.com/yugatsuru/


Above is Tsurenens home page.

Reading some of the articles on his Engrish page are quite interesting http://homepage2.nifty.com/yugatsuru/english/top.html

and so are his web-blogs (in Japanese) http://tsurunen.cocolog-nifty.com/

Quite an amazing bloke.

On the subjects of FGs in "power" - I searched on the web but couldnt find anything to suggest there any other FGs in the wings waiting to do the same - are there anyFG 町長　out there? Anyone know ? Whens Taro gonna be mayor of Tokyo?



:bowdown: :bowdown:

[Taro Toporific]

http://homepage2.nifty.com/yugatsuru/
Above is Tsurenen's home page.

Saaaaa, Tsurenen-san.
What can I say? He's a rare bird, a strange bird.
Tsurenen-san represents my district in Yokohama and the Taro household votes for him. During campaign season I've talked to at my train station many times over the years, only in Japanese. Speaking engrish makes him very uncomfortable and he hates it when I try pleasantries in Finnish with him.

Showing unease after meeting with him, Mrs. Taro has said that he's, "kinda henna-gaijin, isn't he?" Tsurenen-san is a tiny man ---smaller than many Japanese men-- and blends into any Japanese crowd in terms of being salarymanesque in posture and demeanor. I've heard school kids at the station vehemently arguing with each about whether he is a gaijin or not.

Let’s say the Ishiha would fit in better at the next official FG Party than Tsurenen-san.


PS
When's Taro gonna be mayor of Tokyo?:
Gee, Immigration and my lawyer have told me privately on separately that hell will turn into sushi before a handicapped gaijin like me is given permanent residency, let alone citizenship.