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Appearing on TV Asahi’s “Hanadori Shin’ichi Morning Show,” commentator Tamagawa Toru remarked on the search for a Chinese man believed to have gone missing on Mt. Fuji during its official closed season, saying, “I kind of feel like you can’t get fools down to zero.” During the closed season, management of trails and mountain huts differs from the regular climbing season, and there have been repeated cases of climbers running into trouble after setting out without adequate gear. On 5ch threads, voices backing the remark and calling for tighter restrictions on foreign climbers clashed with others who, citing Tamagawa’s past apologies over discriminatory comments about Jewish people and inappropriate remarks about homeless people, branded him a “bigot.” The discussion also spread into whether searches for people missing during the closed season should be funded by taxpayers at all.
Tamagawa Toru: “I kind of feel like you can’t get fools down to zero”—Chinese man goes missing on Mt. Fuji during closed season
Former TV Asahi employee Tamagawa Toru appeared on the 12th as a commentator on the network’s own “Hanadori Shin’ichi Morning Show” (weekdays, 8:00 AM).
He commented on the search for a Chinese man believed to have gone missing on Mt. Fuji during the mountain’s closed season.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Do something about the weak yen and high prices already, you scum
The yen hasn't strengthened even a millimeter
Takaichi's weak-yen-loving reflationism—cut it out!
Isn't investigating and reporting on stuff like that exactly what a morning show is for?
There's no way he'd survive even a single day.
TV Asahi sure treats its gaffes lightly—whether the target is Jewish people or homeless people.
I thought the anti-Jewish remark was pretty bad, but I guess it wasn't that big a deal after all
Great, now there's a nice precedent
Saying it's pointless to change the law for just 10 people a year? That's idiotic
Even the criminal code has provisions for crimes that don't happen even once every ten years
Question marks raised over TV Asahi's response to Tamagawa Toru's “anti-Jewish remark”… the show's “stance” looks different from how it handled the “Dentsu remark”
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0e5662d3f406220d3592cc1ff886f5d3a47dd0ba
Tamagawa Toru's “anti-Jewish remark” enrages the Israeli ambassador… he himself continues to appear on air “saying nothing”
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c1c5d46365bddd44321fabc73b4010f0cdab663c
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True
The search team shouldn't be allowed in either—they should have to follow the closed-season rules too
Apparently near the summit of Everest there are frozen bodies of accident victims scattered all over the place.
TV Asahi's "Hanadori Shin'ichi Morning Show" makes no mention of the previous day's apology in its broadcast on the 16th—Tamagawa Toru appears as usual
https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1776315183/
DPFP Secretary-General Shinba on Tamagawa Toru's "Jewish" remark: "I was shocked"—"I wondered what would happen, and then there he was on TV again, like nothing happened" [muffin★]
https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1777102758/
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Tamagawa Toru apologizes on live broadcast—bows his head over inappropriate remark about a homeless person: "I deeply regret it"
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/80659114d3b473e7f72015dd7bb8f9d0e870e260
Tamagawa Toru apologizes for inappropriate remark about a homeless person made during a "thinning-hair feature," but criticism floods in over his repeated gaffes: "He never actually reflects, so he keeps repeating them"
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/59ac0852435339e8ae394925a9e33801ef96ee01
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Actually you can
To wipe out crime from the world, just get rid of all the laws
Habitual complainers and monster parents are the symbol of that
Well, as long as you're around, that's at least one confirmed, for sure
The rescuers would be risking their own lives too, and it's a waste of tax money
Quit hating on Chinese people, are you a racist or something
A group of famous mountaineers absolutely lost it
If it were a Japanese person, there's no way he'd ever say that
A bigot who's lived an ugly life, now sucking up to right-wing internet trolls (netouyo)
Background and points of contention
Tamagawa has previously been forced into apologies over discriminatory remarks about Jewish people and comments about homeless people, and several links to that past coverage were posted within the thread. Mt. Fuji is officially open for climbing only during a few summer months each year, when trails are maintained and mountain huts operate; outside that window rescue capacity is scaled back, so both the risk during an accident and the burden of mounting a search tend to be greater than in the regular season. The thread split along two main lines. One was a policy debate over whether searches for underequipped climbers who go missing should be funded by taxpayers or made a paid service (some replies referenced past backlash over a proposal to charge for winter mountain rescues). The other was how to read the fact that the word “fools” was being tied to a specific nationality—voices defending Tamagawa’s remark and calling for tighter restrictions coexisted with voices that, citing his history of past remarks, branded it discriminatory. Which view was more common can’t be judged from this thread alone, and this article is not intended to mock Tamagawa or any specific missing individual.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[TV] Tamagawa Toru: “I kind of feel like you can’t get fools down to zero”—Chinese man goes missing on Mt. Fuji during closed season.”
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