Ishihara: “Quake is Divine Retribution Against Japan”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 14, 2011 20:11 JST
- Tags: Asahi, Bizarre, Earthquakes, Old People, Politics, Religion, Tokyo
Tokyo’s reigning rape novelist Shintaro Ishihara has proclaimed the recent earthquake and tsunami are divine punishment (“tenbatsu”) for the sinful depravity the Japanese people now embody.
Asahi press club journalists quote him as saying the following when asked “how should the Japanese people view the quake?” in connection with the recent power trouble:
The identity of the Japanese people is greed.
This tsunami represents a good opportunity to cleanse this greed, and one we must avail ourselves of.
Indeed, I think this is divine punishment.
When asked by an incredulous journalist as to whether this was an imprudent utterance better not reported, he responded “It may be harsh for the victims to hear, but I want you to take it down and report it.”
He is currently running for his 4th term.
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If divine punishment would really exist, he'd be long dead.
Kill him at his birth or influence him with shit load of anime untill he likes them at a really young age
in all likelihood he must have been tormented at a young age by his lack of a harem lifestyle / a cute imouto / a hot yaoi mate when compared to anime. which would explain his current hate of all things that make modern Japan cool.
I have a prayer request
Prayers for Service Men and Women who died in Pearl Harbour. Dear Father, be with our fallen service men and women. I pray Father please in Yeshuah's Precious name please do not stop the destruction that is taking place there... do not give them rest for their weiry souls...but do not forget the sins they commit, do not forget God that you are so abundant in Mercy but also abudndant in vigelance and vengeance
-Samantha
I have a prayer request.
There is a single mother who owns an xbox posting insensitive posts around here. She (if not really a he) claims ignorance of Japan yet demands more blood be spilled for the sake of Pearl Harbour.
Please let her and people like her understand that asking for more blood to be spilled for the sake and in the name of the dead is one of the most wretched, heretical actions, steeped up in sin is her thought that others would be dragged unto it.
Failing at her understanding the nature of her ignorant ways, I ask that her children do not turn out to be the same.
Her name is Samantha.
Thank you.
Yeshuah, eh? Says more about you than money ever could.
^wtf? you are not responsible for the sins of your fathers..grow up..
I have no comment.
Using this disaster for his hate campaign ... afraid of nothing.
There is no such thing as "tenbatsu"
Only they occured, then mindless linking the event(s) with their subjective thinking.
To be a great person, or not to be a sucker, please equip "logical thinking"
not enough levels
Someone punch this retard in the face.
Ishihara's face looks like he shit himself in front of the media. lol
I would hate to be his bodyguards.
Think about the money, maybe that will change your mind.
The fact he's still around is proof enough that gun control is bad.
damn man i just though the same :D
Been reading the Necronomicon much?
I shit on your gods.
lolz, your lord fails compared to RAPTOR JESUS.
The world being ended by Cthulhu or the Outer Gods is still infinitely better than listening to this idiot's ramblings.
Hmm, the idiot has not fell for the bait yet...
It seems our bait spam and the fool's bullshit has been removed.....
Aww well, Operation Aborted.
Good day Mr. Ishibara, we are here to take you to a comfortable home where you'll meet people with a similar degree of intellect. Indeed, this is a place perfect for you and you'll truly feel as if you never left your house!
Oh? What's the name of this outstanding establishment? Why, the asylum of course! ~ <3
The earthquake was trying to do Ishihara in... It missed >.> craaaaaap
Is that the earthquake speaking?
I'll be amazed if this guy gets a 4th term.
One problem with that theory in the most factual sense:
Most people killed were probably elderly men and women who were squeaking out an earnest, old-world ways of living by farming agriculture and fishing agriculture.
So.... just to compare... it does not make sense.
For the very emotionally distraught families of actual Japanese invasions in the past having some hateful feelings is actually kind of... understandable compared to this drivel Ishihara is saying. Especially when so many ELDERLY people died.
Isn't the elderly with him? And that young people are against him?
is this guy still alive??
this guy might be in cahoot with cpt paul watson
Disgusted
It is for selfish reasons that I say this, but thank god he at least didn't use this to yet again bring forward the bullshit manga ban... yet somehow I'm sure he can figure out a way for 'greed' to be represented in manga.
I will go devil's advocate and at least say he's trying to turn it into a lesson for people to take away. Rather than be victims, turn it into something you can learn from. Problem is that doesn't quite work with natural disasters, because once you try to interpret natural disasters, you declare yourself as someone who reads god's mind no matter what you say, so you get a good ol' hearty 'go fuck yourself' from the reasonable among humanity.
Just kill him already.
You have no powers, you didn't place a blessing, you're not even sane.
You're just a fool trapped in his own reality. If you really have powers why don't you kill every otaku alive then, since your 'lord' hates them so much?
Right.......
Don't feed the troll.
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FUCK YOUR LORD AND YOUR NOOBSHIT POWERS.
@ 12:57 - Your icon failed badly xD
One thing is an eco-terrorist claiming it to be divine punishment because he doesn't fucking know how tsunamis work, another much different is the fucking governor of Tokyo.
LoL Tenbatsu...
This guy and Sea Shepherd(or whatever they call themselves) must die.
On a side note
Even if god did exist. Then after death I would show him the middle finger. Fuck a god who kills innocents.
99.2038216323642934230487018% of the appearant "defective dna" population, the same amount of the 'kid' age, would blame ishihara for this and agree this is Divine Retribution. This is because of your fucking ban... u fucked Japan over because of your retarded philosophies. Good day sir, and i hope that meltdown fixes your dumb senile brain and an aftershock will open a hole to hell and drop you in it.
Guy can't even keep his word to stay back from running again. Fucking hypocrite. Who the hell would trust him?!
The same idiots that have voted for him 3 times, if he wins again after this uttering this crock of shit i'll be positive that the average Japanese is either brain dead or has total lack of self respect.
this might be divine retribution indeed. god wanted to hit shihara but, blinded by his anger, attacked all japanese instead.
If they ellect him again, maybe its divine punishment for them being so retarded.
He has nothing but insults for his entire country and the Japanese love him why?
God reads and watches ecchi manga and anime?
He has the mental srength of a potato. All hail mr potato head. Or am i the only one who thinks his eyebrows were put on wrong?
God angry because hentai is uncensord + no blu ray yet blame ishihara
This guy can fit vast quantities of failure into short messages, just like Sarah Palin.
Is it possible to choose not to vote for anyone that running? I'd rather choose somebody random off the streets at this point.
First things first. WHY THE HELL IS HE STILL ALIVE?
i also want to know why the hell is he still alive? i would have thought some random otaku would assassinate his ass by now!
Don't panic just yet, there is a 2nd wave coming. Let's hope this one gets him. Or at least a few more of his supporters.
you know we call the people who vote for him idiots, but look at his competition... someone even more right then him a communist, and i believe a douchebag. the communist is the best option, but communist carries such negitive thoughts that its impossible. and between the douche and the further right, id probably vote the further right.
my point is, he has NO REAL COMPETITION.
Artefact, can you look into his last 3 elections and tell us what he was up against... no make that his last 2, because the first one, maybe no one had an idea what he was capable of, i would love to see that.
It's cause they have all these bullshit laws and rules keeping younger people from voting. Like, not being allowed to take of work to vote.
In all fairness, who else could we choose? All the other candinates are anti-hentai loonies anyway.
TT_TT I cry because this man managed to get into power and kept it for so long.
"In all fairness, who else could we choose?"
The communist mayhap? Vladimir Putin can't be that bad...
Ishihara's only picked on the minorities so far, but this is bound to rub many people the wrong way. Let's hope this douchebag comment becomes his undoing.
how the hell is this guy still in power!?
@Minru, I find that pretty insulting and offensive to potatoes. What harm have potatoes ever done to you? And Ishitharda?
Comparing anything to this moron is an insult to that thing.
Divine retribution as "in hitting a bunch of innocent people that he could use as tools in his political career"?
Ha, fat chance.
I honestly hoped he could do the right thing for once. Because I hadn't heard him utter anything since the quake hit, I thought that maybe he would be concentrating on helping the injured, or contributing to the aid of the areas hardest hit. But no, the idiot just HAD to open his mouth and get on his soapbox.
The ironic thing is that he's in agreement with the sea shepherds, that what happened was divine punishment against Japan (though for different reasons). I think this alone should show where this guy should rank, that his thoughts are aligned with an eco-terrorist that targets Japan.
Just in case it's hard to follow my point I'll summarize: He's showing his true, anti-Japanese colors.
divine entropy
Is this fucking idiot related to the Bush / Palin family?!
Obviously, God caused the Tsunami because he's in a political office.
Time to pray to the sun gods.
Nah, the Emperor of Mankind shall protect the Righteous.
Means Ishihara is pretty much dead meat already
the world is unfair. the one that suppose to die in thie earthquake do not die but those innocent lose their lives