A prefectural governor has riled his diet by announcing that “If you’re too familiar with manga, you’ll lose the ability to read.”
He made the statement in response to proposals relating to anime and manga, rejecting them out of hand, going on to say “We have to think of the children’s education”, which caused something of a furore in the prefectural diet.
His remarks are widely interpreted as an insult directed against the PM for not giving him the funds he wanted to squander.
