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
ZDNET速報:1位はなんと?TIME「PERSON OF THE YEAR」投票にネットの“力” http://www.zdnet.co.jp/news/bursts/0112/21/10.html 【国内記事】 2001年12月21日 10:18 PM 更新 米TIME誌が毎年年末,その年を代表する人物を選ぶ「PERSON OF THE YEAR」の ネット投票が極めて不思議な結果になっている。12月21日時点で,トップはあの日本人なのだ。