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
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.
田代祭、ついに5万票の大台突破しました♪ 速報板田代祭関連スレッド【マサシ祭】Time誌の表紙を田代に!Part20 http://choco.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news/1008877041/ 皆様もぜひご参加下さい 1. Masashi Tashiro 24.1 51450 2. Osama bin Laden 17.9 38315 3. George W. Bush 14.2 30467 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 9.3 19860 5. Pope Hadrian VII 5.1 10965 6. Laura Bush 4.4 9413 7. FDNY/NYPD 2.7 5860 8. Nomar Garciaparra 2.1 4551 9. Sydney Gaul 1.6 3415 10. Jesus of Nazareth 1.2 2531
Masashi Tashiro, and also Sachiyo Nomura again proved to us that the spirit of Japanese stupidity "bo-ke" could never be dent, even by a serious terrorist attack such as the Aum sarin gas, and the 9-11 tragedy.
Tashiro as a person of the year will definitely give confusion to many readers, but can leave a significant historical evidence of one country, who never takes anything seriously.
1. Masashi Tashiro 27.0 61687 2. Osama bin Laden 17.9 40856 3. George W. Bush 13.8 31480 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 8.9 20405 5. Pope Hadrian VII 4.8 10979 6. Laura Bush 4.1 9441 7. FDNY/NYPD 2.6 5940 8. Nomar Garciaparra 2.0 4555 9. Sydney Gaul 1.5 3450 10. Jesus of Nazareth 1.1 2560
# Person % Tally 1. Masashi Tashiro 28.3 66601 2. Osama bin Laden 17.5 41075 3. George W. Bush 13.4 31611 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 8.7 20465 5. Pope Hadrian VII 4.7 10979 6. Laura Bush 4.0 9445 7. FDNY/NYPD 2.6 5998 8. Nomar Garciaparra 1.9 4556 9. Sydney Gaul 1.5 3456 10. Jesus of Nazareth 1.1 2564
# 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
1. Masashi Tashiro 29.9 72492 2. Osama bin Laden 17.1 41339 3. George W. Bush 13.1 31670 4. Mayor Rudy Giuliani 8.5 20492 5. Pope Hadrian VII 4.5 10979 6. Laura Bush 3.9 9445 7. FDNY/NYPD 2.5 6035 8. Nomar Garciaparra 1.9 4575 9. Sydney Gaul 1.5 3517 10. Jesus of Nazareth 1.1 2581