Live stream debate between Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and anti-Korean rightwinger Makoto Sakurai ends in heated insults
Toru Hashimoto the mayor of Osaka isn't the person the reporter makes him out to be. Not only is a historical revisionist as is stated. He's also a war crimes denier and a racist.
Hashimoto and Shintaro Ishihara the former mayor of Tokyo and well known racist formed the Japan Restoration party with him. Toru Hashimoto is no humanitarian.
A live stream debate on hate speech between a charismatic politician and a prominent rightwing extremist was never going to be a polite exchange of views.
But few expected the much-anticipated showdown between Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and Makoto Sakurai, the leader of an anti-Korean group, to last just a few minutes after it quickly descended into a slanging match, with the two men at one point appearing on the verge of physical violence
Sakurai’s insistence on using a disrespectful version of the Japanese word for “you” set the tone for the eight-minute contretemps that followed.
In an unsuccessful attempt to address the issue, Hashimoto, who caused controversy last year by suggesting that wartime sex slaves were necessary to maintain discipline among Japanese soldiers, told Sakurai to “stop lumping together races and nationalities and judging them”, before telling his nemesis to “cut it out”.
Toru Hashimoto the mayor of Osaka isn't the person the reporter makes him out to be. Not only is a historical revisionist as is stated. He's also a war crimes denier and a racist.
Hashimoto and Shintaro Ishihara the former mayor of Tokyo and well known racist formed the Japan Restoration party with him. Toru Hashimoto is no humanitarian.
A live stream debate on hate speech between a charismatic politician and a prominent rightwing extremist was never going to be a polite exchange of views.
But few expected the much-anticipated showdown between Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and Makoto Sakurai, the leader of an anti-Korean group, to last just a few minutes after it quickly descended into a slanging match, with the two men at one point appearing on the verge of physical violence
Sakurai’s insistence on using a disrespectful version of the Japanese word for “you” set the tone for the eight-minute contretemps that followed.
In an unsuccessful attempt to address the issue, Hashimoto, who caused controversy last year by suggesting that wartime sex slaves were necessary to maintain discipline among Japanese soldiers, told Sakurai to “stop lumping together races and nationalities and judging them”, before telling his nemesis to “cut it out”.
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