Tokyo’s ruling r**e novelist Shinataro Ishihara has apparently changed his mind about running for re-election, and is saying he may run for a fourth term after all.
To the short-lived relief of detractors, the 78-year-old had previously indicated he would not be seeking office, but has supposedly changed his mind after his son (who happens to be the LDP’s chief secretary) kept nagging him about it.
If he does run, a formal announcement of his candidacy is expected shortly.
At this stage, just who else will be running is still very much up in the air – let alone who will actually win.
Of course, were the electorate of Tokyo to actually re-elect for the fourth time a far-right geriatric whose career is based in no small part on bullying minorities of all kinds, it would rather suggest they are utterly irredeemable and are perhaps getting the government they deserve, as frightful as that may be.
and i though we had idiots….
he still has to destroy japan’s industry and future to measure to our traitors here (ex-yu) …
still, 5+ on idioticy list.
He looks like a fox with his eyes like that, maybe he’s a demon fox that opposes the god Inari.
Looks like he’s smiling at not only our pain, but Japan’s as well…he’s laughing as well.
Yep, there is just no hope for them is it…
I hope to the gods that they seriously don’t vote him back into office unless he is the lesser of 2 or more evils…
& yes, I died a little inside saying that but so be it…
Not surprised. They introduce someone who they say is “more extreme than Ishihara,” and then Ishihara runs again looking like the lesser of two evils.