Japan ruling party distributes 'anti-gaffe' guide after litany of blunders
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, center right, talks to U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich during a high-level forum on debt in Paris on May 7. By Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow May 15 at 11:39 AM TOKYO — Don’t mention the war. Don’t say what you really think about women’s rights. And don’t make light of disaster victims.
In a section about strong words that tend to be used in headlines, it listed five types of problematic speech. But Takashi Kawamura, the mayor of the city of Nagoya from the Genzei Nippon party, went much further in 2012, denying that mass murders and rapes of civilians had taken place at all and arguing that there had been only conventional combat deaths.
[Japan cybersecurity minister who doesn’t use computers now admits he doesn’t get cybersecurity either] LDP lawmaker Shunsuke Mutai also resigned from a vice minister’s post in 2017 after joking about an embarrassing incident from the year before, when he was carried piggyback by a government official through floodwaters in a region hit by a typhoon. At a fundraising party, he joked that “the rain boot industry made a lot of money” from the incident.
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