Bye-bye 'Blinky' Ishihara?

[Taro Toporific]

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Ishihara confirms stroke but denies retirement speculation
Japan Times / March 30, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara on Saturday pledged to remain coleader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party)...
..."Everyone must want me dead, but that’s not going to happen. . . . If I die, Japan will be so boring," Ishihara, 80, said at a news conference after participating in the party’s inaugural convention in Osaka by videophone. “I will continue to play the role of the villain until I die.”
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[earthquake]

He will keep up hell, until he goes there...

[Russell]

Japan Restoration Party leaders Ishihara, Hashimoto to split

Japan Restoration Party co-leaders Shintaro Ishihara and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on Wednesday decided to split over differences on a proposed merger with the Unity Party and constitutional reform.

Ishihara met Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto for about 30 minutes in Nagoya and they agreed to part company.

The Unity Party rejects Ishihara’s drive to scrap the U.S.-inspired post-World War II constitution.

“I cannot side with a political party which does not accept the establishment of an independent constitution,” the 81-year-old Ishihara told reporters. “I asked Hashimoto to divide the party into two. He accepted this.”

Ishihara has long advocated the creation of a new constitution which allows Japan to have strong armed forces which can go to war. The present charter bans the use of force in settling international disputes.

Ishihara’s own Sunrise Party joined Hashimoto’s in late 2012, when he renounced the Tokyo governorship to return to national politics through general elections in which the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) regained power with a landslide victory.

But the two strong characters have differed on important issues including nuclear power.

Ishihara has pushed for the restarting of nuclear reactors which were switched off after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The Japan Restoration Party has 53 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament and nine in the 242-seat upper chamber.

The Unity Party has nine seats in the lower house and five in the upper house.

Unity Party leader Kenji Eda said Ishihara’s views on the constitution will hinder a “further reorganization of opposition parties”.

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These right-wingers remind me of the Protestant church, splitting up over minor differences...

[Coligny]

Don't know...

No change of the constitution, no restart of Nukaplants... Hashimoto sounds frighteningly reasonable even without comparing him to Ishitara... In which case he could be classified as dangerous comie...

[matsuki]

Don't know...

No change of the constitution, no restart of Nukaplants... Hashimoto sounds frighteningly reasonable even without comparing him to Ishitara... In which case he could be classified as dangerous comie...

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

[Coligny]

Not minez... They are all 24h clocks...

[Taro Toporific]

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THE RISE AND FALL OF OLD-MAN ISHIHARA
Izakaya Politics | 2014/07/01
Shintaro Ishihara, who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012, didn’t win the first time he ran for the position in 1975. Ishihara lost to the popular Socialist incumbent, Ryokichi Minobe. Minobe, who was 71 at the time, was criticized by Ishihara for being “too old” to run for such an important position.
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[legion]

Ishihara gave financial and political support to Aum Shinrikyo, a religious cult that was involved in somedownright evil stuff in the 1990s. Immediately after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Ishihara decided to drop out of national politics, ending his 25-year career in the Diet.

Didn't know that

[matsuki]

Ishihara gave financial and political support to Aum Shinrikyo, a religious cult that was involved in somedownright evil stuff in the 1990s. Immediately after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Ishihara decided to drop out of national politics, ending his 25-year career in the Diet.

Didn't know that

Is it all that surprising? He reads like a cultist/real world version of takechan

[yanpa]

Ishihara gave financial and political support to Aum Shinrikyo, a religious cult that was involved in somedownright evil stuff in the 1990s. Immediately after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Ishihara decided to drop out of national politics, ending his 25-year career in the Diet.

Didn't know that

Is it all that surprising? He reads like a cultist/real world version of takechan

It's not surprising, but like legion I was unaware of that fact.

[matsuki]

Ishihara gave financial and political support to Aum Shinrikyo, a religious cult that was involved in somedownright evil stuff in the 1990s. Immediately after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Ishihara decided to drop out of national politics, ending his 25-year career in the Diet.

Didn't know that

Is it all that surprising? He reads like a cultist/real world version of takechan

It's not surprising, but like legion I was unaware of that fact.

I'll third that...I'm guessing most of the J-populace aren't so aware either

..on the other hand

“The most evil and damaging thing that civilization has brought is women who are old hags.”

“The thing is, a black person has become the president of the world’s number one country, so those black people’s nations in Africa and what have you, they’re going to relate to that. And if they all surge forward to vote en masse for the US, that’s going to be a problem.”

......USA Sekai Ichiban!!!

[legion]

I asked one of the people I work with and she didn't know, and neither did my wife, who despite marrying me is pretty sharp.