{"id":2060,"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"the-crying-politician-ryutaro-nonomura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/the-crying-politician-ryutaro-nonomura\/","title":{"rendered":"The crying politician, Ryutaro Nonomura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">If you&#8217;ve found yourself going online with any kind frequency during the last few months, you&#8217;ve probably seen the video of the &#8220;crying Japanese politician&#8221;, Ryutaro Nonomura.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" alt=\"20140903-1.jpg\" title=\"20140903-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Nonomura broke down emotionally at a press conference held in early July. The 47-year-old politician was accused of &#8220;misusing&#8221; an alleged \uffe53m in public funds for personal gains, and forced to apologize for his conduct in a national press conference.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the video, this is it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xbchlq8St4I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>Things start to unravel at around 1:30, and it&#8217;s all downhill from there.<\/p>\n<p>The video was uploaded to the internet shortly after the conference, and, in the way of these things, immediately went viral. It became so popular that Nonomura even has his own line of mechandise, including:<\/p>\n<p>T-shirts<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" alt=\"20140903-2.jpg\" title=\"20140903-2.jpg\">\u3000<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-22.jpg\" width=\"423\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20140903-22.jpg\" title=\"20140903-22.jpg\">\u3000<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-23.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" alt=\"20140903-23.jpg\" title=\"20140903-23.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>LINE stickers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-3.jpg\" width=\"577\" height=\"924\" alt=\"20140903-3.jpg\" title=\"20140903-3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Various fan art<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-4.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"395\" alt=\"20140903-4.jpg\" title=\"20140903-4.jpg\">\u3000<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20140903-0001.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20140903-0001.png\" title=\"20140903-0001.png\"><\/p>\n<p>and even his own series of Dubstep remixes:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0yHD4RiWkuU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His passionate cry of &#8220;\u3053\u306e\u65e5\u672c\u2026\u4e16\u306e\u4e2d\u3092\u5909\u3048\u305f\u3044!&#8221; (\u3053\u306e\u306b\u307b\u3093\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\u3088\u306e\u306a\u304b\u3092\u304b\u3048\u305f\u3044\uff01) (at around 3:37-ish in the original video) is set to become one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=1404\">\u6d41\u884c\u8a9e<\/a> of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Nonomura has since resigned from his position in the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| If you&#8217;ve found yourself going online with any kind frequency during the last few months, you&#8217;ve probably seen the video of the &#8220;crying Japanese politician&#8221;, Ryutaro Nonomura. Nonomura broke down emotionally at a press conference held in early July. The 47-year-old politician was accused of &#8220;misusing&#8221; an alleged \uffe53m in public funds for personal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Genki Japanese and Culture School - The crying politician, Ryutaro Nonomura<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"News and commentary from GenkiJACS, a Japanese language school in Fukuoka, Japan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/the-crying-politician-ryutaro-nonomura\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genki Japanese and Culture School - 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