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Mike Gravel’s Running Mate


Gentlemen and Ladies, I give you Toyama Koichi.. Who I am certain will not let his being neither a Democrat nor an American stop him from the march to the White House. Which he will then proceed to destroy. Hopefully with laser beams.

“I DO NOT HAVE A SINGLE CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSAL!”

The Asahi Shimbun has more on Koichi’s candidate for the Tokyo prefecture governership, for which he garnered 15,000 presumably confused votes.

Koichi Toyama, 36, who is also running against Ishihara, is calling on voters to stage a revolt against the government–but only after they have had their fill of beer.

Japan responded to his candidacy the only way they knew how.

Unfortunately, the winner, while still a menace, isn’t nearly as fun.

(Hat tip: Metafilter and Q23)

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  1. #1 by antibunny on April 28th, 2007

    Nice. They still haven’t topped our California governor election, though.

    Also, Lum.. your car has arrived: http://englishrussia.com/?p=865

  2. #2 by Freakazoid on April 28th, 2007

    Here’s a Koichi-less version of that music video. At least, I think it’s a music video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmAGOTo824

    Japan almost never fails to put out something so nonsensical and catchy you just can’t stop listening to it.

  3. #3 by TPRJones on April 28th, 2007

    Oh shit my everything hurts from the laughing.

    I especially loved the bit near the end. “They will be terrified if I win.” Then, quieter and more thoughtfully: “I will be terrified if I win.” Bwahaha!

  4. #4 by Neumann347 on April 28th, 2007

    A couple of things:

    1) Wow a 50% turnout in a civic election. That’s impressive.

    2) What a nice way to blow 3 million yen ( or $25000), I would have gone for a new car myself.

    3) On the snarky side, it doesnt bother you to be referencing wikipedia regarding a foreign politician, when you posted about how incorrect wikipedia is for a local politician?

  5. #5 by Diamonds on April 28th, 2007

    My girlfriend discovered this a while back. This is my personal favorate:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDjeLWSC3JA

    I couldn’t find a better quality version. I think it was one of the first BGM version (background music).

  6. #6 by IndigoParadox on April 29th, 2007

    I’m not sure which should surprise me more: that Lum the Mad has linked to an IOSYS Touhou remix video involving a Tokyo gubernatorial candidate, or that such a video exists in the first place.

    Q_Q

  7. #7 by Psychochild on April 29th, 2007

    Man, good to know there’s a future in independent politics for us MMORPG developers and community managers once we snap and burn out. :P

    Man, I look almost sane compared to him, and that’s even if I were introduced with my online pseudonym!

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