Weird Incident files in Japan: January 2015

Saturday, January 31, 2015

"Patriots" say, "the hostage in ISIS should kill himself"

Today, those who call themselves "patriots" often speak about self-responsibility. Now a Japanese free journalist Kenji Goto is captured by ISIL and the Japanese govenment is ordered 200 million dollar in exchange for his life. The figure is such that the Japanese government doesn't have a will to pay it. After that, ISIL stopped ordering money but said that the prisoner who's been sentenced death penalty can be a substitute for him. The prisoner is called Sajida al-Rishawi jailed in Jordan but the Jordan government would like to echange her pilot who is captured by ISIS with the prisoner. Anyway, the Japanese government and Jordan are talking about it now.

Kenji Goto

While there are many Japanese discuss it. Especially Japanese nationalists(though they call themselves patriots) are hard on Kenji because he had been alerted that it's too riskey to go to ISIL. Nevertheless Kenji went there just because wanted to save another Japanese captured ISIL and finally he was also captured. So nationalists say that the Japanese government shouldn't take pains to save him. Some naitonalists even say that he should kill themselves. The followings are one of the examples.

This Takayuki says in his introduction of his twitter: I'd like to save the goodwill of young people from left wings who trifle with sophistry of human rights, peace and equality.

Translation:Softly speaking, you shouldn't or can't say. I think, but I should say the trueth. So I say, commit suicide without saying anything, Kenji!

This script is from the blog written by Dewi Sukarno who supports the most nationalistic party "The Party for Future Generations".

This is unscrupulous but if I had an opprtunity to talk with him, I would suggest that he should die. If I were his mother, I woud say that... In order to make my son HERO. Quated from http://ameblo.jp/dewisukarno/entry-11983065803.html

Surprisingly hundreds of comments which support her are posted. Of course, this blog is censored so that nobody can post an disapproval comment of her argument.

There are many of other crazy Japanese who blame Kenji too much.

He might be reckless but he wanted to save another Japanese. Why should he be blamed?

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Competent killer, Mochi killes people every New Year

According to news paper Yomiuri, during the New Year of 2015, 9 people were somothered to die by Japanese traditional food Mochi. Besides, 13 persons suffered cardiopulmonary arrest. Mochi is made from rice and its mouthfeel is like a gummy candy. Since it's so sticey and difficult to crunch enough to pass throurgh trachea, it clogs the trachea so often. So every New Year, elder people die of it.

Needless to say, it's as dengerous as poisnous food but Japanese still eat it because it's a custom. Every year, the Japanese government alterts people to be careful about it, but in vain.

In the following video, you can see how to make mochi and how they eat it.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

prime minister's office bought thousands of nationalistic books?

According to the ducments revealed by the office of Japanese prime minister Sinzo Abe, his office paied to nationalistic publishers about 2 million yen(1,700,000$) in 2014. The publishers are so nationalistic that their "hate books" are well known among Japanese. Hate book is too much hostile to persons/countries that are hard on Japanese nationalists who try to justfy the invasion during WW2.