# Person % Tally 1. Osama bin Laden 18.2 33873 2. George W. Bush 15.2 28241 3. Masashi Tashiro 13.7 25514 ★ 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 10.2 18899 5. Pope Hadrian VII 5.9 10961 6. Laura Bush 5.1 9382 7. Fuck Head 4.9 9125 8. FDNY/NYPD 3.0 5574 9. Nomar Garciaparra 2.4 4539 10. Sydney Gaul 1.8 3356
1. Osama bin Laden 17.7 34301 2. Masashi Tashiro 16.8 32564 3. George W. Bush 14.7 28484 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 9.8 18985 5. Pope Hadrian VII 5.7 10962
1. Masashi Tashiro 17.8 34950 2. Osama bin Laden 17.5 34504 3. George W. Bush 14.5 28556 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 9.7 19005 5. Pope Hadrian VII 5.6 10962 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
It will become a topic about a person of "Masashi Tashiro" now in United States. With American TIME magazine, we collect votes of "Person of the 2001" annually. Person, "Masashi Tashiro" that anybody in the world does not know no that an American does not know at all suddenly surface this year. In my company (TIME magazine), we investigated a person of "Masashi Tashiro" in emergency. We sympathized from a name, and it gained imagination immediately that he was a Japanese. Would there be a person of "Masashi Tashiro" in the well-known Japanese who swept over the world? We investigated him many times, but we did not understand what kind of person was. Thus we decided to refer to a Japanese branch office. He is Japanese comedian in being surprised, and he was a singer. However, he was not a famous comedian and singer. He was a timid person, and it was the person who depended on someone else. But, he was arrested by the crime that pirated underwear of a woman last year! And, in December, this year, he looked in a bathroom of a neighborhood, and he was arrested flagrante delicto, and, besides, he was arrested by stimulant possession on the next day!! As for us, the person who represented this year was able to never think of a career of "Masashi Tashiro" utterly as far as we watched a background. We felt doubt very much why such a man linked a name in our vote. According to the various investigation, it was recognized that an Internet bulletin board of a Japanese "2 channel" was an origin of dispatch. It is the Internet bulletin board which is greatest in Japan, and being teenagers of a lot of Japanese speaks "2 channel"iInternet bulletin board. It is the event that you should be surprised at since the TIME magazine publication, but we think that a case of this time expresses that a vote across a border was done, because a new communication tool of Internet appeared. . A person of "Masashi Tashiro" is a shameless man. A Japanese recommending him is so.
An expectation article of a certain newspaper in America 2001.12.19
1. Masashi Tashiro 20.6 42644 2. Osama bin Laden 17.3 35882 3. George W. Bush 13.9 28893 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 9.2 19095 5. Pope Hadrian VII 5.3 10962 6. Laura Bush 4.5 9396 7. Fuck Head 4.4 9132 8. FDNY/NYPD 2.8 5711 9. Nomar Garciaparra 2.2 4541 10. Sydney Gaul 1.6 3357
It will become a topic about a person of "Masashi Tashiro" now in United States. With American TIME magazine, we collect votes of "Person of the 2001" annually. Person, "Masashi Tashiro" that anybody in the world does not know no that an American does not know at all suddenly surface this year. In my company (TIME magazine), we investigated a person of "Masashi Tashiro" in emergency. We sympathized from a name, and it gained imagination immediately that he was a Japanese. Would there be a person of "Masashi Tashiro" in the well-known Japanese who swept over the world? We investigated him many times, but we did not understand what kind of person was. Thus we decided to refer to a Japanese branch office. He is Japanese comedian in being surprised, and he was a singer. However, he was not a famous comedian and singer. He was a timid person, and it was the person who depended on someone else. But, he was arrested by the crime that pirated underwear of a woman last year! And, in December, this year, he looked in a bathroom of a neighborhood, and he was arrested flagrante delicto, and, besides, he was arrested by stimulant possession on the next day!! As for us, the person who represented this year was able to never think of a career of "Masashi Tashiro" utterly as far as we watched a background. We felt doubt very much why such a man linked a name in our vote. According to the various investigation, it was recognized that an Internet bulletin board of a Japanese "2 channel" was an origin of dispatch. It is the Internet bulletin board which is greatest in Japan, and being teenagers of a lot of Japanese speaks "2 channel"iInternet bulletin board. It is the event that you should be surprised at since the TIME magazine publication, but we think that a case of this time expresses that a vote across a border was done, because a new communication tool of Internet appeared. . A person of "Masashi Tashiro" is a shameless man. A Japanese recommending him is so.
An expectation article of a certain newspaper in America 2001.12.19
# Person % Tally 1. Masashi Tashiro 23.8 50377 2. Osama bin Laden 17.9 37804 3. George W. Bush 14.3 30322 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 9.3 19767 5. Pope Hadrian VII 5.2 10963 6. Laura Bush 4.4 9412 7. FDNY/NYPD 2.7 5816 8. Nomar Garciaparra 2.1 4543 9. Sydney Gaul 1.6 3412 10. Jesus of Nazareth 1.2 2531
こんな書き込みしてるやつもいるし。。。 Wataru uegaki - Thursday, 12/20/01, 7:22:08am (#1163 of 1174) Hello, My name is Wataru Uegaki, a student in Japan. I think you are surprised and confused by the name "Masashi Tashiro" in the "person of the year" ranking. First of all, Please ignore it! All of these votes were organized in fun by the people crowding in a web community called "2ch" (http:// www.2ch.net). And this is not fair. "Masashi Tashiro" is a singer in Japan. But he is not international and important. Nobody thinks he is a "person of the year 2001" at all. So, Please erase all votes for "Masashi Tashiro". Please ignore this terrible joke. I am ashamed of Japanese having done such a thing on this hard time. All Japanese are sorry about the tragedy in N.Y. and hopes the world peace. I am afraid that I have done many mistakes in English.
# Person % Tally 1. Masashi Tashiro 28.6 67372 2. Osama bin Laden 17.4 41085 3. George W. Bush 13.4 31620 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 8.7 20466 5. Pope Hadrian VII 4.7 10979 6. Laura Bush 4.0 9445 7. FDNY/NYPD 2.5 6002 8. Nomar Garciaparra 1.9 4557 9. Sydney Gaul 1.5 3456 10. Jesus of Nazareth 1.1 2565