Uyoku done right, uyoku done wrongAugust 4th, 2006 by Joe Jones |
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HOT: Matsumoto of B’z playing Kimigayo.
NOT: Arashi Moritomo singing Kimigayo. (I almost watched this fight before his singing forced me to change the channel and rinse out my ears.)
August 4th, 2006 at 8:00 am
His name is Arashi – he’s not from the group Arashi.
August 4th, 2006 at 8:20 am
Duh, that was dumb on my part… all the male singers look the same to me any more…
August 4th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Yup, only in Japan would doing something as ‘extremist’ as singing the national anthem be called “right wing.”
Aso for PM.
August 4th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
According to the Yomiuri a couple days ago, Youtube clips like that are egregiously illegal and you should be ashamed of yourself!
August 5th, 2006 at 2:49 am
Pah! I call fair use.
August 5th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Plenty of people in Japan will say that Kimgayo is an inappropriate national anthem, considering that it was used during the Imperialist period. Remember that it was only made official again a couple of years ago. I have actually heard that even though it is once again being sung in schools and so on, it has never once been sung in the presence of the current Emperor.
August 5th, 2006 at 11:27 am
True. When I was in high school in Japan (1999), they played Kimigayo at a graduation ceremony and none of the kids knew what they were supposed to do. Nowadays people have at least figured out that they should stand and make some salute-like gesture. Of course, they could be singing the decoy version.
August 5th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Gee that’s fucking terrible to see.
August 6th, 2006 at 9:14 am
So Jimi Hendrix and Whitney Houston are right-wingers also, eh?
August 6th, 2006 at 9:24 am
Oh, no. In the US it’s totally OK not to be self-hating.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:27 am
“Nowadays people have at least figured out that they should stand and make some salute-like gesture.”
Obuchi and his pals figured it out for them, you mean.
Oh god, that Arashi video was terrible. I couldn’t watch it to the end.