More Depressing Bits from the News

Tojo's granddaughter is running for office. She wants to enshrine all military dead at Yasukuni.

Ishihara was reelected for a 3rd term as Governor of Tokyo. Tokyo. The largest, most cosmopolitan city in Japan. An international city...

When giving a speech to the Self Defense Force in 2000, he said''Atrocious crimes have been committed again and again by sangokujin and other foreigners. We can expect them to riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake.''

Ishihara stated in a 2001 interview with women's magazine Shukan Josei that he subscribed to a theory that "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin," adding that he "couldn't say this as a politician." He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by "tyrant" "old women."

Note: The rioting foreigners comment is horribly ironic, as hundreds of Koreans were killed by Japanese mobs following the Kanto Earthquake in 1923 due to lovely rumors about the Koreans being responsible for the disaster.