Forum - View topicNEWS: Former Tokyo Governor, Novelist Shintaro Ishihara Passes Away at 89
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NG_Chloe
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It's a shame when anyone dies, but it's conflicting when they weren't necessarily a good person. Don't wanna spit on anyone's grave, but don't want to celebrate them either. Just gonna say it was a shame they died as it is when anyone does
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Hoppy800
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I heard he was a decent novelist but boy did he caused Japanese media (the thing he should've been protecting, given the content in his novels) a lot of hell in his later years with Bill 156 and it's earlier, forgotten precursor bill (it also made Japanese media quite prone to foreign censors).
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Blanchimont
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Condolences for passing. But otherwise he gets no sympathy from me.
His views were simply atrocious. From denying war crimes, like Comfort Women(something like if someone denied Holocaust..), to his views on LQBT, to his xenophobe views on Koreans And Chinese. If there's any bright side...no there isn't. His political career had already damaged Japan's façade enough that the stains are hard to remove... |
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PonSquared
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I'm not afraid to say that he was a terrible human being. Just the worst. He directly led to me having a worse time living in Japan. You can be afraid to split on his grave but I'm not. While I'm not going to throw a party or anything I'm certainly not sad about the news and I deffenetly won't miss him.
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otastorian
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"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain," or something like that. You really have to wonder how many of the post war generation "turned-heel" like he did.
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Eigengrau
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At least we'll always have Shimoneta to remember him by.
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Errinundra
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Troll post removed along with responses.
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Takkun4343
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Ah yes, the "loli ban" guy. Didn't know his views were that backwards.
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simona.com
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he won't be missed.
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revolutionotaku
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If his "loli ban" had passed, the anime/manga industry would've been permanently crippled. |
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MrTerrorist
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I remember how people point out how hypocritical he was about wanting to pass his anti-nsfw bill when one of his novels was nsfw.
And just to get back at him, somebody made a H-game based on that novel. |
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