{"id":4134,"date":"2009-06-25T01:32:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2009-06-25T01:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:32:55","slug":"manga-avatar-candidate-goes-for-national-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/manga-avatar-candidate-goes-for-national-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Avatar Candidate Goes For National Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159182480X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=asiajin-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=159182480X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/514p3afzb1l_sl160_.jpg\" alt=\"Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo\" title=\"Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo\" width=\"108\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4140\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=asiajin-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=159182480X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nFumiya Satoh, a manga artist who draws a boy detective story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159182480X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=asiajin-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=159182480X\">&#8220;Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo&#8221;<\/a> which has been sold 80 million copies, who is also a director of culture of the Happiness Realization Party, had a press announcement of her running for coming national election of the house of representative with blotting out herself with her drawing character with voice actress video.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mdshbtnm1YI&#038;hl=ja&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nShe says (actually wrote scripts read by the voice actress) criticizes her planned opponent, a manga-fan prime minister Taro Aso and his Liberal Democratic Party policy in the video by telling it would be a manga fan and manga author&#8217;s competition.<br \/>\nJapanese people are known by their tendency to prefer being anonymous, but running national election campaign with manga character is uncommon at all. I have never heard similar case before.<br \/>\nThe Happiness Realization Party was formed this year by a buddhism-based new religious organization <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kofuku_no_Kagaku\">&#8220;Koufuku no Kagaku&#8221; (Happy Science)<\/a>, to aim to win the national election, as they say. The party seems to utilize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/hrpchannel\">YouTube<\/a> and other web media for this election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumiya Satoh, a manga artist who draws a boy detective story &#8220;Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo&#8221; which has been sold 80 million copies, who is also a director of culture of the Happiness Realization Party, had a press announcement of her running for coming national election of the house of representative with blotting out herself with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/manga-avatar-candidate-goes-for-national-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manga Avatar Candidate Goes For National Election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1052,2200,2456,2916,4221],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-election","tag-manga","tag-movie","tag-politics","tag-youtube","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}