Man gives Abe the finger. . . Tells him to keep it. . .
A man who is a member of right-wing group in Japan has been arrested for giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the finger. . . Literally. . .
The man was upset that Abe failed to visit Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversay of Japan’s defeat in World War II, and so he cut off his little finger and sent it to Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party headquarters.
An envelope delivered to the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo also contained a letter of protest and a disk of photographs of the 54-year-old man cutting off his finger, a police official in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, said.
“I thought they would ignore me if I just sent the letter, so I put my little finger in as well,” Kyodo news agency quoted the man as telling police.
Removing part of a finger is a traditional form of punishment or atonement among gangsters in Japan.
[...] A very angry rightwinger in Japan has given Prime Minister Abe the finger… [...]
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 pm( Yasukuni Shrine + State Shinto + Wartime Emperor System )
× Extreme Right-Wing = Ghost of Totalitarianism.
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August 26th, 2007 at 9:12 am[...] sure there is scope here for either segue into yubitsume or crafting of a clever and ironic joke. But I guess if interested you could just read up on it [...]
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