Tokyo mayor: “Anti-nuclear is as stupid as monkey.”

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This is a first step for Japanese national vote for nuclear. However, Tokyo mayor Ishihara stated, he will not submit the bill. He talked on the press conference on 2/10/2012:

"Anti-nuclear movement is driven by pity sentiment to be scared of nuclear with no alternative plan. Civilization has been improved overcoming lots of mistakes. Abandoning nuclear technology means devolution to the monkey. Power companies apart from Tepco or Kanden have only 3% of share, obviously that’s not enough for Tokyo. Ballot initiative for nuclear power is impossible and I have no intention to realize it."

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/02/tokyo-mayor-anti-nuclear-is-as-stupid-as-monkey/

[Generic Other]

1. Lovely

And I was all worried about them. Why bother? Some only learn by dying.

[kristopher]

2. Ishihara is a foaming-at-the-mouth right winger.

Seriously, if you are quoting him, you are indeed off of the progressive reservation.


ETA wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintarō_Ishihara

In 1990, Ishihara said in a Playboy interview that the Rape of Nanking was a fiction, claiming, ”People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie.”[27] He continued to defend this statement in the uproar that ensued.[28] He has also backed the film The Truth about Nanjing, which argues that the Nanking Massacre was propaganda.

Ishihara said in a 2001 interview with women's magazine Shukan Josei that he believed "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."[29]

During an inauguration of a university building in 2004, Ishihara stated that French is unqualified as an international language because it is "a language in which nobody can count," referring to the counting system in French, which is based on units of twenty for numbers up to ninety-nine rather than ten (as is the case in Japanese and English). The statement led to a lawsuit from several language schools in 2005. Ishihara subsequently responded to comments that he did not disrespect French culture by professing his love of French literature on Japanese TV news.[30]

At a Tokyo IOC press briefing in 2009, Governor Ishihara dismissed a letter sent by environmentalist Paul Coleman regarding the contradiction of his promoting the Tokyo Olympic 2016 bid as 'the greenest ever' while destroying the forested mountain of Minamiyama, the closest 'Satoyama' to the centre of Tokyo, by angrily stating Coleman was 'Just a foreigner, it does not matter'. Then on continued questioning by investigative journalist Hajime Yokata, he stated 'Minamiyama is a Devil's Mountain that eats children.' Then he went onto to explain how unmanaged forests 'eat children' and implied that Mr Yokota, a Japanese national, was betraying his nation by saying 'What nationality are you anyway?' This was recorded on film[31] and turned into a video that was sent around the world as the Save Minamiyama Movement[32][citation needed]

In 2000, Ishihara, one of the eight judges for a literary prize, commented that homosexuality is abnormal, which caused an outrage in the gay community in Japan.[33]

Governor Ishihara once claimed that Korea under Japanese rule was absolutely justified due to historical pressures from Qing Dynasty and Imperial Russia.[34

[saras]

3. No duh. Anyone who would say that in Japan in 2012 has already closed the book on their stupid test

[AndyTiedye]

4. How Did He Get to be Mayor or Tokyo?

[Nihil]

5. Maybe Tokyo has a majority of foaming-at-the-mouth right wingers?