This chapter criticizes the abnormal state of the Diet during the novel coronavirus crisis, in which Hideya Sugio, Renho, and other members of the Constitutional Democratic Party attacked Prime Minister Abe over a weekly-magazine report about Akie Abe’s alleged “cherry-blossom viewing.” It questions opposition politicians and media that prioritize political attacks over the safety and livelihood of the people.

2020-03-28
Rather than the safety of the people or the improvement of their lives, they do nothing but criticize and harass the government with weekly-magazine gossip.
Moreover, I was fed up with their hysterical and foul-mouthed manner, which made it hard to believe they were Japanese.
Let us make the members of the Constitutional Democratic Party lose their seats!
Last night, I was truly astonished while watching TV Tokyo’s WBS.
There was a lawmaker named Sugio from the Constitutional Democratic Party.
Next to him was Renho, with that familiar smug look on her face, a person who, together with him, may without exaggeration be called the worst and most foolish duo.
It was a scene in which Sugio was attacking the prime minister, saying, “While everyone is refraining from going out, the prime minister’s wife, Akie, went cherry-blossom viewing with a group…”
Wondering what this was about, I watched, and the prime minister, too, was answering while restraining himself from losing his temper.
For the sake of the people, and for the sake of his own duty, the prime minister of Japan was suppressing his anger at an attack from such a base and ugly human being.
It turned out to be nothing at all.
Mrs. Akie had eaten at a restaurant with friends.
Cherry blossoms were blooming in the courtyard of that restaurant.
They had merely looked at them.
That was all there was to the story.
I would like to teach this supremely foolish man named Sugio, and Renho, something.
For example, at a restaurant on the approach to Nanzenji Temple, there is a cherry tree blooming through the roof in the very middle of the restaurant.
Or the Hashimoto Kansetsu Memorial Museum, before the approach to Ginkakuji, is a kaiseki restaurant whose selling point is a garden where flowers bloom in every season.
All over Japan, there are many restaurants whose selling point is their courtyards.
Such restaurants are the exact opposite of eating and drinking establishments where the distance from the next person is not even one meter.
They arrange seats with far more than one meter between them.
The prices are appropriate for that.
But safety and peace of mind in every respect are also part of what they sell.
This is precisely what Ryusho Kadota calls a nitpicking question.
No, the members of the Constitutional Democratic Party are continuing to carry out the most malicious impression manipulation against the people.
And at such a time as this.
What on earth is the structure of their brains?
To begin with, are they genuine Japanese?
For example, if they were in fact members of South Korea’s VANK, I could understand it immediately.
I cannot possibly think that they are Japanese in the same sense as we are.
To begin with, their conduct is such that it would not be an exaggeration to say that they have no love for Japan at all.
Furthermore, the strangeness of their not criticizing in any way China’s conduct, which has brought such a terrible disaster upon the world, is no ordinary matter.
If Japan had an FBI or a CIA, would not all the lawmakers of the Constitutional Democratic Party have been arrested?
It has been exposed in broad daylight that they are nothing other than people who act against the state by being connected with China and the Korean Peninsula.
At such a time, this manner of hurling such foolish questions at the prime minister and detaining him in a place called a committee or the like must be corrected immediately.
As in the American presidential system, the practice of making the prime minister attend the Diet should be stopped immediately.
Even so, to those Japanese citizens who voted for the Constitutional Democratic Party:
if you dislike Japan so much, or if all you do is devote yourselves to degrading Japan, perhaps it would be better for your mental hygiene to move, together with the lawmakers you love so much, to China or the Korean Peninsula that you love so much.
Otherwise, Nobunaga would not merely rebuke you in a thunderous voice, saying, “Know shame as Japanese citizens,” and “You outrageous scoundrels unworthy of being counted among Japanese citizens.”
Indeed, Jiro Yamaguchi, for example, it is you people who would be cut down with a single stroke by Oda Nobunaga.
They receive large incomes from the taxes of the Japanese people and continue to degrade Japan.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that no greater villains have ever existed in Japan.
While checking the name of this lawmaker, I found the following site.
Democratic Party: “The prime minister’s wife was cherry-blossom viewing! The source is a weekly magazine” — but on closer inspection, she was only eating at a restaurant.
Hideya Sugio: “Mrs. Akie went cherry-blossom viewing while people had been asked to refrain from cherry-blossom viewing!”
Prime Minister Abe: “It was reportedly a commemorative photograph at a restaurant in Tokyo.”
Sugio: “It was reported to be a park in Tokyo!”
Abe: “It was not a park, but the premises of a restaurant.”
Sugio: “Does that mean it is fine if it is a restaurant? We are refraining from cherry-blossom viewing!”
When the weekly magazine’s false report is revealed, the Constitutional Democratic Party now begins saying people should not even go to restaurants.
Was it a restaurant?
On television news, they broadcast it as if she had gone out cherry-blossom viewing with a large group and taken a commemorative photograph.
Is that not terrible, even now?
I had been angry, thinking, “Mrs. Akie has done it again,” but it was completely different.
It is good that there was the foolish lawmaker Sugio.
I think all the people are misunderstanding this.
A waste of Diet members’ salaries.
#ConstitutionalDemocraticParty #HideyaSugio is asking questions in the Diet with weekly-magazine gossip in hand.
As for #Renho, she is shouting noisily like a kindergartener.
I really think so too.
As someone who knows the Tokyo subway sarin attack and the Matsumoto sarin incident in real time, I cannot accept why such a person is calmly receiving a Diet member’s salary.
#HideyaSugio #TokyoSubwaySarinAttack #MatsumotoSarinIncident #TBS
Kiyotaka Kato, MC of Bunkajin Broadcasting
@jda1BekUDve1ccx
23 hours
Sugio was not only a TBS caster connected to the event that became the trigger for the murder of lawyer Sakamoto and his family, but in the Matsumoto sarin incident he treated a victim as if he were a suspect.
With what face can he sit in the Diet?
People of his electoral district, is this acceptable?
The purpose of the question was not to get through the national crisis, but only to criticize the administration.
I truly think that, in this emergency, time is being wasted.
The government and the prime minister must have mountains of urgent work to do under these circumstances…
#HideyaSugio
In this Diet session, the abnormality of the opposition parties, especially the #ConstitutionalDemocraticParty, stood out.
Mr. #HideyaSugio, Ms. #Renho, Mr. #TetsuroFukuyama, and others do nothing but criticize and harass the government with weekly-magazine gossip, rather than work for the safety of the people and the improvement of their lives.
Moreover, I was fed up with their hysterical and foul-mouthed manner, which made it hard to believe they were Japanese.
Let us make the members of the Constitutional Democratic Party lose their seats!
Kazue Fujiwara
@kazue_fgeewara
9 hours
This is purely hypothetical, but if Representative Sugio thinks the people have not noticed that he is taking advantage of Japan’s weakened condition to continue asking questions completely unrelated to the lives of the people, then Representative Sugio is a serious fool.
And, again purely as my personal opinion, I think Representative Sugio completely thinks that way.
Reactions on the Internet.
@CDP2017
#ProtestAgainstTheConstitutionalDemocraticParty #WeDoNotNeedTheCDP #DissolveTheCDP #SugioResign #HideyaSugio
At a time like this…?
Show the people firm evidence.
#HideyaSugio #March272020HouseOfCouncillorsBudgetCommittee #CriticismOfMrsAkieRestaurantCherryBlossomBackgroundPhoto
After “Sakura” falls, “Moritomo” again?
Hideya Sugio of the Constitutional Democratic Party questions Prime Minister Abe over fake gossip from a weekly magazine.
March 27, 2020, House of Councillors Budget Committee.
https://youtu.be/zRGkbhrnRHU
In reality, he is sick.
And it is a fairly serious condition; he lacks the intellect and cultivation necessary for living.
It is embarrassing to watch.
#WeeklyPost #AsahiShimbun #ConstitutionalDemocraticParty #HideyaSugio #Renho
Masaharu Isshiki
@nipponichi8
15 hours
If one cannot forgive another person for taking a photograph in front of cherry blossoms, I think one is quite sick.
I think one would live a happier life by realizing that whether other people look at cherry blossoms or take photographs has nothing to do with oneself.