A Japanese Diet member has narrowly escaped punishment after daring to take a photograph of Emperor Akihito.
59-year-old DPJ upper house member Makoto Hirayama reportedly had the temerity to use his mobile phone to take a photograph of the Emperor as he was attending the Diet’s opening ceremony.
Such a serious incident demanded an investigation by his party, who questioned him and found that he had thought to take the photo as a memento of his meeting with the Emperor, and said that they do not intend to punish him for the act.
Hirayama has apologised mildly rather than slitting open his belly in the ancient and honourable manner, saying “it was reported on and caused a bit of a fuss.”
2ch is united in hatred of any and all Democrats, but even they are having tremendous difficulty in articulating just what it is he did wrong beyond belonging to the wrong party:
“Resign!”
“I hate those Democrats!”
“As expected of a dirty party of Koreans!”
“What a shameless bunch!”
“Didn’t he just snap a famous old celeb you hardly ever see?”
“Why is a simple photograph even an issue? Freedom of expression?”
“Have any of you lot ever spoken to this old grandpa? What percentage of Japanese have?”
“Isn’t this covered by anti-nuisance ordinances?”
“This MP is like some country bumpkin or something, taking pictures like that.”
“Emperor worship is pre-war stuff, a verbal reprimand is sufficient.”
“Revive lese-majesty and execute this traitor immediately!”
“There isn’t a rule against photographing him, right? This is just some pretext.”
“There is no ruder thing! Are you even Japanese!?”
“We may not be in a totalitarian system any more, so worshipping him that much is not necessary, but his manners and common sense are still awful all the same.”
“Everyone makes out as if before the war everyone just worshipped the emperor, but in reality it wasn’t like that at all.”
“Why are they letting him off?”
“The DPJ should just come out and say they hate Japan.”
“They don’t respect His Majesty the Emperor at all in that party. He’s the symbol of the nation, they don’t respect even that!”
“People who defile His Majesty the Emperor are treated as heroes in the DPJ!”
“He should be punished! You’d expect this from a party of Korean filth!”
“At least we don’t still have lese-majesty any more…”
“Are 50% of the DPJ ethnic Koreans or something?”
“The DPJ don’t even see this as a problem!”
“Oh come on, what nonsense are these crazy rightists spouting now – TV and mass media photograph him all the time? They report on him all the time? Do you need a license to photograph him or something? Seriously, what is the problem?”
“There’s no rule against it. But it is unprofessional and he should be sacked!”
“What is this, pre-war times? Will his soul be drained away if someone photographs him?”
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Death penalty!
Seriously! Kill that guy! Why is he wasting his time taking pictures of some old guy when he could be taking pictures of naked lolis for the internets!
Idiots need to get their priorities straightened out...
So its illegal to take picture? Why there's a picture of him at top?
weird. Here some russkies took images of an old dude and nobody shoot them or demanded Kuril islands as an apology
http://ru-japan.livejournal.com/1856286.html
It's not illegal. It's just considered rude to take clandestine pictures of him. Like most 'royals', the imperial family prefers 'official' shots and pics by the legitimate media.
That's saved only for Koreans.
Koreans are the dirty scrapings from the bottom of Japanese boots!
All humans are inferior! The robot technocracy will devour all your fleshy parts and make this planet an efficient mechanism once and for all!
All dark and yellow colored people are inferior to white people! Burn all democrats and liberal minded people and use their remains as fertilizer!
God damn Japanese people are fucking stupid, I mean honestly, he took a picture of an old dude, emperor or not, just like the Queen of England, just a symbol, get over it.
All Americans are fat and everyone in Africa has AIDS. Please, refrain from targeting a whole country when you want to criticise a specific group of people.
Especially when such representation of such group of people is coming from FUCKING _2CH_ of all places...
No the whole country of Japan is not bat shit crazy, but the government seems to be over stupid things like this. Way more pressing problems than some old guy who looks like he should be in a nursing home.
That "old guy" along with the Empress Michiko did more to raise the spirits of the Japanese people during the recent events at Fukashima by going around to the relief shelters than PM Kan and the rest of the worthless politicians!
Long live His Imperial Majesty!
Oh, you and your silly emperor worship.
Long live the Immortal God Emperor (of Japankind)!
Death to all xenos and trai...err I mean Koreans and gaijins!
So basically you're upset that he generalized all japanese, but you're not arguing that the whole thing is just stupid, I take it?
You shouldn't just look at one part of his post and take it out of context. Hater.
@ Slush 04:01 :
A) It's *because* he's an important (to them) symbol that they're upset.
B) If you want a photo of the Japanese Emperor, you should spend the Yen to buy his photo-shoot book. :-)
So the emperor is an idol?
More likely he doesn't want any pictures of himself so he can't be killed by a death note.
That's actually a pretty logical explanation.
I wonder if it might not be considered a bit crass for an MP to take the Queen's picture with a *cellphone*...but I'm sure it'd just cause a brief and minor brouhaha in newspapers and TV chat shows. More of fodder for jokes than anything else.
so, in short, this ^
Actually, HM The Queen is never photographed EATING. Cutting ribbons, waving, opening hospitals, driving her Range Rover, all A-Ok. Eating or drinking? VERY NO.
Maybe this is evidence that she doesn't eat or drink. Like a she's a cyborg or a vampire or something.
Give her a break, she's self conscious about her dentures.
I wonder why people are so butthurt over nobility and feel the need to validate their meaningless lives by claiming they are ordinary people.
While this cretan shouldn't be executed, he should show more remorse over his rude actions.
Tennou Heika, Banzai
I so agree with you.
Just get rid of any royal/empire familly.
Ruling parties are replaced on a regular basis. while a ruling family with a long history represents stability and stands above petty political squabbling. This is why they are important to the common people.
A few years ago I thought the same way as You do now, but... I changed my mind. First of all, the whole society is based on some sort of lies and illusions(the part of human nature that always eluded me ^_^), which are required to maintain social contract( which is a lie too). So by cutting out of the self-regulating system like our society based on fallacies something like symbol of the state. It inevitably start to rot and disintegrate.
Wait what?!
Where's that Star Trek universal translator when you need one?
It's like some weird stream of consciousness writing combined with some economic lesson or something.
What the fuck are you even trying to say?
Sankaku gets dumber day by day.
Emperor of some tiny shit hole island? Hah. Guy doesn't even deserve the title of king, much less emperor. Someone tell me why the allies didn't have a mass public execution of the imperial family post war?
Because they were afraid of mass suicides and didn't want to have that on their consciousness.
Main problem is he try to take a pic of emperor without permission. & you're right. He's just a symbol, but symbol w history & respect. Why do you think certain art museum doesn't allow cameras? Same concept.
They don't allow cameras in your art museums? What a shitty town you live in.
Paris doesn't qualify as a small hick town, bud, and the Louvre, which is in Paris, doesn't allow flash photography.
Same goes for major art museums in Italy or any major art museum really.
So that means if you take a picture he'll fade and crumble to pieces?
People of the 1850's believe it captures the persons soul on the camera and removes it from the person.
Never know. iirc he's over 70yrs old. lol
Well, doesn't Ichitaka feel like a dumbshit for not knowing about flash photos and fragile art.
the camera's flash might damage the object...in short your cellphone that happens to have flash photography(what the hell kind of a cell is that) will make the "emperor" deteriorate or at least blind him.
Maybe he makes money selling his picture, poor old man.
w Cellphone pics? I know cellphone camera have improved in yrs... but cellphone pics?
Museums prohibit cameras for three reasons:
* The flashes speed deterioration of the art;
* The flashes bother the patrons; and,
* Third-party photos cut into the amount of money the museum gets selling their *own* photographs of the exhibits.
I'll let you guess which reason is most important to the museum management.
Some work has usually gone into creating artwork for museums (usually...). Also, the flash required to acquire a clear image can be harmful to pigments.
Ichitaka, the reason that certain museums do not allow photograph taking is more due to the damage the flashes have on the paintings, not due to an issue with respect or history.
I doubt taking pictures of this idiot would cause him to suffer multiple organ failure, so whatever.
No organ failure, but there afraid it will steal his soul
sorry this just seems ridiculous
You can't take a photo of the god and escape a divine punishment. ^_^
Back in ancient time in Japan, certain emperor family line was not allow to be seen by commoners. Cuz they're decedent of (certain) God.^^
that's not true. Back in "ancient times" the imperial family were known for being approachable
So certain gods would come off their mountain and hump the lolitas in their sleep. Oh dam so many virgin birth there must have been. Crazy human thinking that what it is.
Another fairy tale just like jesus.
Another fairy tale like god.
Yet you still believe that you came from a rock.
Not to mention the fairy tale of the "Big Bang Theory" came from a Jesuit Priest by the name of George Lemaitre SJ.