Politician in Hyogo-ken caught using gov't money for onsen
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:44 pm
So this has been big news here in Japan for the past month or so. Some politician in Hyogo-ken (where I used to live 12 years ago) was caught writing off his 100+ trips to an onsen spa resort as "business travel expenses." So as we have seen on the morning TV news programs ad nauseam, this "man" during his "apology" (by "apology" I mean "avoiding responsibility") breaks down into some infantile autistic conniption fit.
This has spawned countless Internet memes as a result. For an introduction, start with this Kotaku article.
Videos started surfacing on Nico Douga and YouTube too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iThFDucY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x-jgGSw68c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnK4-f7fU0
So now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
This has spawned countless Internet memes as a result. For an introduction, start with this Kotaku article.
Videos started surfacing on Nico Douga and YouTube too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iThFDucY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x-jgGSw68c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnK4-f7fU0
So now you know. And knowing is half the battle.