Japan's masked politician

[DJEB]

A Japanese wrestler-turned-politician has insisted on wearing a brightly patterned mask - his trademark in the ring - for his new job as a local councillor.

Critics say it is "indecent" that Masanori Murakawa refuses to reveal his face.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3003979.stm

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is that ultimo Dragon, cause if it is he used to be my fav wrestler but he just suddenly dissappeared. If that is him maybe he stopped wrestling to pursue this political career

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F@#$ nevermind...maybe i should have read the article before opening my big mouth

[kurohinge1]

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Almost 6 years later, AFP has trotted out the same photo to accompany this inglorious episode for The Great Sasuke:

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[Behan]

I wonder if they'll (or did) interrogate him day and night for 23 days like they would an FG?

[Gilligan]

I wonder if they'll (or did) interrogate him day and night for 23 days like they would an FG?

Do you think they'll (or did) make him take his mask off?

[Taro Toporific]

Do you think they'll (or did) make him take his mask off?

Japan: Politician Banned for Wearing Wrestling Mask to Meetings
@TIMEWorld / March 14, 2013
A Japanese politician has been banned from attending his local council meetings. His offense: refusing to take off his wrestling mask.
The man, who goes by the moniker Skull Reaper A-Ji, was elected in February in Oita, a city in southern Japan, after campaigning, masked, on a platform of educational reform and improved social welfare facilities...
...Remarkably Skull Reaper A-Ji isn’t the first masked Japanese politician elected at the local level. According to the Daily Mail, there was a masked councilor who goes by the name “Super Delfin” in Osaka. And the former professional wrestler Masanori Murakawa, otherwise known as “The Great Sasuke,” was elected as a councilor in 2003.More...

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[matsuki]

If they could only do the same with these...

[Coligny]

Do you think they'll (or did) make him take his mask off?

Japan: Politician Banned for Wearing Wrestling Mask to Meetings
@TIMEWorld / March 14, 2013
A Japanese politician has been banned from attending his local council meetings. His offense: refusing to take off his wrestling mask.
The man, who goes by the moniker Skull Reaper A-Ji, was elected in February in Oita, a city in southern Japan, after campaigning, masked, on a platform of educational reform and improved social welfare facilities...
...Remarkably Skull Reaper A-Ji isn’t the first masked Japanese politician elected at the local level. According to the Daily Mail, there was a masked councilor who goes by the name “Super Delfin” in Osaka. And the former professional wrestler Masanori Murakawa, otherwise known as “The Great Sasuke,” was elected as a councilor in 2003.More...

I wonder if it set for a legal situation where any decision taken during this meeting could be invalidated on the basis that a legally elected member have been denied access on baseless grounds.

[Taro Toporific]

"Behind the Mask: Revealing the Ties Between Pro Wrestling in Mexico and Japan"
Nippon.com December 12, 2014

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via (@nippon_en)

[Taro Toporific]

"Muy pronto en Japón"
------- --El Hijo del Santo‏ @ElHijodelSanto

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