According to ameba news, the girl who rescued us from
Japan-China crisis 3 years ago is now troubled herself about the recent circumstance between China and Tibet.
(article & picture)
http://news.ameba.jp/entertainment/2008/04/13070.html The girl who was known as '11 year-old F-cup' is now a 14 years old high school student wannabe. It seems she has grown up very naturally, and beautifully in 3 years. And her boobs are just being okay, although her height became 1cm shorter than last year.
She held a memorial event of her latest DVD, 'SA-YA' in Akihabara last Saturday, and at the press conference held after the event, one reporter who knows about her legend 3 years ago asked, 'What do you think about the confusion in China recently?'
She answered,
'I don't know about the previous one well, because it happened when I didn't know about it well. But I think I have to do something.(dounika shinai to ne)' --
Will she take some reaction to Tibet-China problem by herself?? Actually, the last phrase she answered 'Dounika shinai to ne' is confusing. It's a typical usage of ambiguous Japanese Language, which sometimes omits the subject. It can be taken for both 'I have to do something' and 'I just wish things go well'. But , thinking in common sense term, she must have just said
'I wish the problem between China and Tibet will be solved somehow. '
But if she does something on her own will, it must be wonderful. It's not bad to go to Zenko-ji temple and protect Japanese monks from Chinese, shouting:''This is a holy place!! Please get away!!' ... of course, in bikini. And it's also good attend some demonstlation as a representative of angry Japanese teens... of course, in bikini.
(* Zenko-ji refused to set the start position of torch relay in the temple, and it is being attacked by Chinese.)
Anyways, there is one thing for sure. Three years ago, when she was 11-year-old F-cup, she couldn't understand what is going on while her picture was used by some Japanese Web users as political eye-candy to console angry Chinese people. However, now, as a 14-year-old-F-cup, she can understand, something wrong is occurring in China, and she is worrying about the peace of the world.
This internal growth of Saaya just shocks me. But I'm feeling some happiness at the same time, just like an uncle who meets his nephew first in three years. The girl whom I thought was the most beautiful and hopeful girl in this world is now getting a sprout of intelligence, or internal beauty.
It is almost two years since I lost interest on Saaya for her too otakky and music-less activity. But if she holds a demonstration, I'd like to go and attend to it, of course, in bikini.
Part of morning musume are in Taiwan now. I was hoping they'd follow Saaya's lead and help heal problems in Asia, but so far they have been lazy and just been idols. Save Asia, Saaya-chan! Ganbatte!
*The torch comes to my city on Thursday. I can't get to work in the morning because the whole city is blocked off, so I am willing to dedicate my day to escorting any Japanese idols from the airport to the torch relay to help quell any unfortunate protests. It's my sacrifice for the greater good of the world.
Not only idol girls, I have never heard of Japanese talentos or celebs who talk about this issue. Many of them are keeping blog, but nobody worries about the world, and just minding about what they eat today.
But that's what is insularism is.
*And as for Hello Project, there are several spie... no, girls from China, so I think they can't do anything for this matter lol.
I'm not really sure you can really blame insularism for the lack of political talk, it's rather that japanese youth - in general - are rarely involved into politics.
It's not that they don't care about what's happening overseas or internationally, they don't care about japanese politics either !
Even at university level, very few students are active on a political level or make effort to understand the issues and try to form opinions about them.
It would be weird - and of course commercially damaging - for talento to talk about something their audience is not interested in...
>they don't care about japanese politics either !
>It would be weird - and of course commercially damaging - for talento to talk about something their audience is not interested in...
That's true. The rooted problem is Japanese generally aren't intereted in politics. But now I think it's because our nation is peaceful.
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Part of morning musume are in Taiwan now. I was hoping they'd follow Saaya's lead and help heal problems in Asia, but so far they have been lazy and just been idols. Save Asia, Saaya-chan! Ganbatte!
*The torch comes to my city on Thursday. I can't get to work in the morning because the whole city is blocked off, so I am willing to dedicate my day to escorting any Japanese idols from the airport to the torch relay to help quell any unfortunate protests. It's my sacrifice for the greater good of the world.
Not only idol girls, I have never heard of Japanese talentos or celebs who talk about this issue. Many of them are keeping blog, but nobody worries about the world, and just minding about what they eat today.
But that's what is insularism is.
*And as for Hello Project, there are several spie... no, girls from China, so I think they can't do anything for this matter lol.
I'm not really sure you can really blame insularism for the lack of political talk, it's rather that japanese youth - in general - are rarely involved into politics.
It's not that they don't care about what's happening overseas or internationally, they don't care about japanese politics either !
Even at university level, very few students are active on a political level or make effort to understand the issues and try to form opinions about them.
It would be weird - and of course commercially damaging - for talento to talk about something their audience is not interested in...
>they don't care about japanese politics either !
>It would be weird - and of course commercially damaging - for talento to talk about something their audience is not interested in...
That's true. The rooted problem is Japanese generally aren't intereted in politics. But now I think it's because our nation is peaceful.