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辞任した鉢呂吉雄経済産業相
Japanese Official Resigns Over Radiation Joke
「日本の閣僚、放射能ジョークで辞任」―ニューヨーク・タイムズ
鉢呂吉雄経済産業相が「放射能をうつす」発言で辞任に追い込まれた。
今回の鉢呂氏の辞任劇をニューヨーク・タイムズ東京支局長のMartin Fackler氏が伝えています。
失言その1ー「放射能うつすぞ」
The problem began on Thursday, after Mr. Hachiro returned from a trip to evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. According to Japanese newspaper reports, Mr. Hachiro, who was wearing protective clothing, moved as if to wipe his sleeve against a reporter and jokingly said, “Look out, radiation!”
「問題が起きたのは９月８日。鉢呂産業相が福島第一原発周辺の避難地域視察から戻ってきたときのこと。日本の報道によると、防護服を着ていた鉢呂氏は、防護服のそでを記者の１人にこすり付けるようなしぐさをして「ほら、放射能だ」と冗談を言ったという。」
失言その2ー避難地域は「死の町」
Earlier on Thursday, Mr. Hachiro had raised eyebrows by calling the evacuated communities around the plants “dead towns,” a statement seen as insensitive to the approximately 80,000 people who had been driven from their homes by the nuclear accident.
「９日午前の記者会見で、鉢呂氏は原発周辺の避難地域を「死の町」だったと、原発事故により自宅から避難しているおよそ８万人の避難者に対して無神経だと思われる発言をして、世間の非難を浴びた。」
◆いくら冗談で言ったとはいえ、福島の被災者の神経を逆なでした代償はあまりにも大きすぎたようだ。 内閣発足時からこのような失態を犯しているようでは、せっかく捕まえたドジョウが手から逃げていくことになる。民主党最後の首相とならないよう、ドジョウ総理の泥臭い政治に期待したい。
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ドジョウ内閣ー早くもつまずく
Japanese Official Resigns Over Radiation Joke
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: September 10, 2011
TOKYO — Just over a week after he took office, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan suffered his first political setback on Saturday when the new minister of trade and industry resigned after a joke about radiation caused a public uproar.
The industry minister, Yoshio Hachiro, stepped down after apologies failed to quell calls for his resignation within his own governing Democratic Party. The party appeared to be moving quickly to control damage to Mr. Noda’s government.
“It was an inappropriate remark,” Mr. Noda said Saturday. “I want to apologize and correct the remark.” Mr. Noda, Japan’s seventh prime minister in five years, is trying to avoid the fate of many of his predecessors, who were undermined by similar scandals over gaffes by members of their governments.
The problem began on Thursday, after Mr. Hachiro returned from a trip to evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. According to Japanese newspaper reports, Mr. Hachiro, who was wearing protective clothing, moved as if to wipe his sleeve against a reporter and jokingly said, “Look out, radiation!”
The jest caused outrage largely because Mr. Hachiro’s ministry, which was in charge of promoting as well as regulating nuclear power, has been widely blamed for lax oversight that allowed the Daiichi plant to operate without adequate defenses against tsunamis. The plant was crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami on March 11, causing the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr. Hachiro had raised eyebrows by calling the evacuated communities around the plants “dead towns,” a statement seen as insensitive to the approximately 80,000 people who had been driven from their homes by the nuclear accident.
Mr. Hachiro apologized the same day for that remark. But then he made the comment about radiation on his clothing, which was criticized in newspapers on Saturday as a serious lapse of judgment.
Mr. Hachiro later said that his recollection of the episode was “not very clear,” though he admitted that he had pretended to rub his sleeve on a reporter.
辞任した鉢呂吉雄経済産業相
Japanese Official Resigns Over Radiation Joke
「日本の閣僚、放射能ジョークで辞任」―ニューヨーク・タイムズ
鉢呂吉雄経済産業相が「放射能をうつす」発言で辞任に追い込まれた。
今回の鉢呂氏の辞任劇をニューヨーク・タイムズ東京支局長のMartin Fackler氏が伝えています。
失言その1ー「放射能うつすぞ」
The problem began on Thursday, after Mr. Hachiro returned from a trip to evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. According to Japanese newspaper reports, Mr. Hachiro, who was wearing protective clothing, moved as if to wipe his sleeve against a reporter and jokingly said, “Look out, radiation!”
「問題が起きたのは９月８日。鉢呂産業相が福島第一原発周辺の避難地域視察から戻ってきたときのこと。日本の報道によると、防護服を着ていた鉢呂氏は、防護服のそでを記者の１人にこすり付けるようなしぐさをして「ほら、放射能だ」と冗談を言ったという。」
失言その2ー避難地域は「死の町」
Earlier on Thursday, Mr. Hachiro had raised eyebrows by calling the evacuated communities around the plants “dead towns,” a statement seen as insensitive to the approximately 80,000 people who had been driven from their homes by the nuclear accident.
「９日午前の記者会見で、鉢呂氏は原発周辺の避難地域を「死の町」だったと、原発事故により自宅から避難しているおよそ８万人の避難者に対して無神経だと思われる発言をして、世間の非難を浴びた。」
◆いくら冗談で言ったとはいえ、福島の被災者の神経を逆なでした代償はあまりにも大きすぎたようだ。 内閣発足時からこのような失態を犯しているようでは、せっかく捕まえたドジョウが手から逃げていくことになる。民主党最後の首相とならないよう、ドジョウ総理の泥臭い政治に期待したい。
関連記事はこちら
ドジョウ内閣ー早くもつまずく
Japanese Official Resigns Over Radiation Joke
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: September 10, 2011
TOKYO — Just over a week after he took office, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan suffered his first political setback on Saturday when the new minister of trade and industry resigned after a joke about radiation caused a public uproar.
The industry minister, Yoshio Hachiro, stepped down after apologies failed to quell calls for his resignation within his own governing Democratic Party. The party appeared to be moving quickly to control damage to Mr. Noda’s government.
“It was an inappropriate remark,” Mr. Noda said Saturday. “I want to apologize and correct the remark.” Mr. Noda, Japan’s seventh prime minister in five years, is trying to avoid the fate of many of his predecessors, who were undermined by similar scandals over gaffes by members of their governments.
The problem began on Thursday, after Mr. Hachiro returned from a trip to evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. According to Japanese newspaper reports, Mr. Hachiro, who was wearing protective clothing, moved as if to wipe his sleeve against a reporter and jokingly said, “Look out, radiation!”
The jest caused outrage largely because Mr. Hachiro’s ministry, which was in charge of promoting as well as regulating nuclear power, has been widely blamed for lax oversight that allowed the Daiichi plant to operate without adequate defenses against tsunamis. The plant was crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami on March 11, causing the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr. Hachiro had raised eyebrows by calling the evacuated communities around the plants “dead towns,” a statement seen as insensitive to the approximately 80,000 people who had been driven from their homes by the nuclear accident.
Mr. Hachiro apologized the same day for that remark. But then he made the comment about radiation on his clothing, which was criticized in newspapers on Saturday as a serious lapse of judgment.
Mr. Hachiro later said that his recollection of the episode was “not very clear,” though he admitted that he had pretended to rub his sleeve on a reporter.
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