Tokyo Governor Candidate “More Extreme Than Ishihara”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 2, 2011 12:44 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Censorship, DPJ, Kanagawa, Politics, Tokyo
Kanagawa governor Shigefumi Matsuzawa has announced his intent to run for the position of governor of Tokyo, with his current statements and past deeds indicating he would be an even worse disaster for the anime and game industry than the outgoing Ishihara.
Shigefumi Matsuzawa, a 52-year-old independent politician formerly attached to the leftist DPJ, is currently serving as governor of Kanagawa prefecture (a prefecture adjoining Tokyo and with almost half its population of 9 million in the city of Yokohama).
He has indicated he plans to run in the upcoming elections for Tokyo governor, on a platform which he has made clear will be Ishihara-esque – in fact he has previously openly expressed his admiration for Ishihara.
His latest comments are indicative of this:
“I want to make new rules to protect our youth, not just for Tokyo but for the whole of the capital region. [i.e. Kanto including Tokyo, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, etc., over 42 million people]”
He goes on to voice his ardent support for Tokyo’s manga ban, and echoes Ishihara in wanting to ban the Internet as well:
“We should respect the results of the deliberations of the Tokyo governor and assembly […] Protecting our youth from harmful information is a major theme for us. Particularly the malign influence of the harmful, obscene or violent information on the Internet.”
His explicit wish is to see the ban extended throughout the Kanto region, much as Ishihara wanted to “run Japan from Tokyo”:
“I’d like to try to unify all the youth protection ordinances of the capital region prefectures to better protect our young.”
Needless to say, restrictions covering a third of Japan’s population and the heart of its publishing industry would form a de facto national ban.
He also famously appeared on TV denouncing the evil effects of games on children – unfortunately, the graphs shown on alongside him actually display dramatic decreases in in youthful criminality (with the total number of serious crimes committed by young people over the past 80 years shown on the left, and the murder rates for men of different ages from 1955 to 2000 on the right):
As usual with crazy reactionary politicians obsessed with banning things, video games are a prime target, evidence or no – in 2005 he had GTA3 banned in his prefecture as “harmful material” (the same technique currently being applied to manga in Tokyo proper) despite the fact that the game already had an 18+ rating.
His response to the resultant uproar was to proclaim the “silent majority” supported him.
Other recent comments have seen him baselessly assert that fiction corrupts the youth:
“Young people today have lost the ability to distinguish the virtual from the real, and they are influenced by the virtual into lives of crime […] I think national legal restrictions against games are required.”
Japan’s struggling game industry will probably lose all hope of recovery if he enters office.
His administration also came under scrutiny for publishing draft legislation defining “youths” as “people aged 0 to 30” and then going on to propose various draconian measures restricting youth access to “harmful material,” alcohol, sex, and so on.
Other leading candidates include a communist and a man who didn’t even know anything about the ban until he realised he had inadvertently annoyed its opponents – a none too reassuring election looms.
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ages 0 to 30.... I believe that people that are 30 years old are already pretty mature, and shouldnt be considered "youth"
14 is mature enough!
Well, maybe not all the time. In fact, maturity isn't an age thing, it is an individual thing. I'm sure there are 6-year-olds that are quite mature.
14 is definitely mature enough for a boy (or girl) to decide themselves what they watch while masturbating.
Ahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
Wuz wrong fagots no internetz for U 'till 30.HAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
in italy 35 is still considered youth...
They'll redefine old, retirement age as 80 years old so the "youth and adults" would have to work longer supporting those aging politicians.
This coming from a country where women used to aim to get married before 25. So now that makes them-... hell, that makes ME a kid?
Jesus, this is like watching Gundam Season 2. Lol.
The primary bad guy is out, then another worse one comes into the picture.
good thing in anime is good guy always win at last, but in this banning case... i don't think that we can win..
talk about sissy japanese otaku that do nothing toward Ishihara ban..
man this is depressing..
Otaku need to grow more balls and intellect period.
Or we may not even see anime anymore unless it's in it's censored, E-friendly prudish form possible.
irl the bad guys always win. thats why we have so many story where the good guys win cause we would like to end like that -.-
Or a Kamen Rider series; the episodes 1-25 villain colony got beaten by the hero and then another new stronger colony who's higher ranked appeared destroying the previous villains before they could retreat and make the hero suffer like hell.
Hell, we need new upgraded Gundam units and new Core Medals to beat this guy before he evolves into a Governor.
Fascist assholes always want censor everything in the name of their stupid children. I have found an audioclip where the late George Carlin (RIP) shares his wisdom on the world's obbsession of protecting the stupid youth.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/704824/
Damn! ...time to bust out my deathnote...
Is it just me or it's raining idiots out there?
They should hire a member of 2ch. Their election speech would be full of memes
he's leftist, that means he isn't fascist, just a douche bag.
If you censor information on the net, they'll just learn the same information on the streets. Protecting youths from "harmful" information just makes more ignorant youths unknowing of what the world truly has to offer.
He is insane, all politicians are insane.
Vote for the communist, it's the only option!
Besides, the Communist Party OPPOSED the ban!
Usually, i hate communism.
But screw it in this case, POWER TO THE COMMUNIST DUDE!
I am very confident that the commies in Japan are not a bad choice. They are more like social democrats.
And it would not be the first time a communist becoming a mayor or something.
FUCK POLITCS! I-WANT-MY-LOLIS!
Is Tokyo learning from China?
Better anarchy.
Starting to wish that the guy who ran over all those people would do the same to everyone in the government...
The pro-Pyeongyang Japanese Socialist Party is Japan's only hope.
Which is quite weird actually. The Japanese Communist Party have nothing to do with either of the North Korean and Chinese Communist Parties (since they're slightly older) and aren't exactly "friendly" to them, while the Japanese Socialist Party is a bit closer to those two.
They will become like China more Isolated.
This is like bloody Suikoden II...
The main antagonist is dead, and then out of the blue, another much one takes his place...
Luca Blight = Ishihara
Jowy = Shigefumi
As soon as I read:
"His administration also came under scrutiny for publishing draft legislation defining “youths” as “people aged 0 to 30″ and then going on to propose various draconian measures restricting youth access to “harmful material,” alcohol, sex, and so on."
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He cannot get it up, can he..?
-Azure Xuchilbara
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NO wonder them rapist never get prosecuted, they are still underage lol.
"ban the internet"
Apparently this dipshit running for Governer has no clue what happened in Egypt.
Ban the internet like ban the electricity...
You will live in darkness and cannot see the real outside internet world. If I'm their lecturer, I'll fail them for this silly answer.
Goodness, why in the world would Japan select these old dinosaurs as its polticians?
Matsuzawa seems to be uglier than Ishihara.
God why is it these retard old people do not understand they are not raising the children of Japan? The PARENTS of these respective children are the ones doing that. The parents should be the ones to decide what information is or isn't harmful to their children. Then again, I say the same whenever the people in the good ole US of A try drafting in this sort of legislation... So maybe all politicians are retarded, or all bought the same book to get into office.
NOOOOOOOO-- !!
Oh god please save Japan! :c
but his eyebrow is awesome... 'The Rock' in governor version
Go Up
side downShigefumi!!So did you know that 2012 was actually wrong? Apparently the people who did the math for that (translating the mayan time to ours) so its not 2012.
The Rock would whoop this Ishihara's lover's candy ass!
God will not save Japan and wants to sink it now! If only God was with his descendants now. Well he is coming soon enough. 2012!
@Anon 13:29
I wouldn't say that too loud. The approved "net neutrality" is just the beginning of cyber dictatorship.
Wherever you look at, every place is now pretty f***ed up.
someone should write a yaoi manga using those two. I'd buy it.
seconded, LOL
Where does Japan get these clowns? The crypt?
I don't know about the communist or what he's like, but if he opposes, the ban, all luck and success to him!
OH SHI- SNIPERS WHERE ARE YOU GUYS? SRSLY! WE NEED SOME SNIPERS IN JAPAN!
Otaku Snipers?
Currently they going out to shoot down Ishithararara..
after that they will proceed to shoot Shigefumi.
Where is Golgo 13 when you need him?!
How about Crying Freeman and the 108 Dragon?
You're gonna pay him a million dollar?
Just sell your eternal soul to Satan for power :D
I would LOVE to do it, but I have no money to get over there :/ or a rifle. ;/
Japanese politicians are fucking jokes. I think a big reason for that is that they have almost no real men in Japan. Just suits, (moral-)fags, and shut-ins...
Oh, and Abe Hiroshi...he fucking rocks !
With the right amount i can take care of them if you want. But am a professional, even for shits like them i ain't doing anything for free (well except if their brain has some delicious power i would like to take).