<figure id="attachment_382191" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382191" style="width: 2500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2f8f9159"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/4da82016e77c1dfac4759d852f6ba9f3.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382191" class="wp-caption-text">Shinji Ishimaru has shown &#8220;various faces&#8221; since his election as governor of Tokyo. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
 Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Aki Takata City, is facing a headwind.
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 In the Tokyo gubernatorial election held on July 7, he was far behind incumbent Yuriko Koike, but he overtook Renho, who had left the Democratic Party of Japan&#8217;s Rikken Democratic Party, to take second place. She received approximately 1.66 million votes.
 Ishimaru has become the darling of the times, but his &#8220;disturbing comments&#8221; were noticed in the special election program.
 He was unable to communicate with sociologist Kenju Furuichi, who appeared on the program, and he was &#8220;salty&#8221; to interviewer Rena Yamazaki, a former member of &#8220;Nogizaka46&#8221; on &#8220;Mr. Sunday&#8221; (Fuji Television Network).
 The exchange, in which he could not communicate at all, was ridiculed on the Internet as &#8220;Ishimaru&#8217;s syntax&#8221; and has become a major source of amusement.
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 This was a complete change from the fresh impression he gave during the election campaign. Viewers commented
 &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t seem very nice.
 I didn&#8217;t know he was like this.
 and &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know he was like this. Some of them said
 &#8220;He&#8217;s like Siri from a long time ago,&#8221; one viewer said.
 Some compared his inability to make any progress to a virtual assistant on a smartphone.
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That was clearly done on purpose,&#8221; he said. He has always been harsh on the old media of TV, radio, and newspapers. I don&#8217;t think he needs to go out of his way to make enemies, but he must have an agenda,&#8221; said a reporter from the political section of a national newspaper.
 Ishimaru is aggressive toward the old-style media, but he shows his tsundere side in his interactions with former Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto and former Akashi Mayor Fusaho Izumi, whom he respects. In the aforementioned Fuji election special program, he said
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 In the Fuji special election program mentioned above, he made a love call, saying, &#8220;If, for example, Mr. Izumi or Mr. Hashimoto say they are going to start a new party, I would definitely like to work with them.
 He also sent a love call to Mr. Ishimaru on a YouTube program.
 In his YouTube program, Ishimaru is also beaming. When he spoke with Takafumi Horie, a.k.a. Holliemon, and Atsuhiko Nakata of Oriental Radio on their channels, his aggression faded and he smiled several times.
 On the YouTube program &#8220;ReHacQ-ReHacQ,&#8221; which was distributed live on April 10, he also commented on Ishimaru&#8217;s syntax.
 I&#8217;m good, do more of it. That&#8217;s how serious I am about making politics entertaining. If politics can be made entertaining by putting everything you like and dislike into it, that&#8217;s what I really want.
 He answered with a smile.
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 He also asked, &#8220;Why were you so angry during the special program on the opening of the polls?&#8221;
 He did not cover it up by asking the opposite question.
 I respond to good intentions with good intentions, and to hostility with hostility. I respond to good intentions with good intentions, and to hostility with hostility. If the other party is seriously researching, I respond with quality commensurate with the quality of the research.
 He developed a theory that &#8220;when they are serious about their research, I will respond with a quality commensurate with their research.
 In response to this, a person from a TV station said
 Politicians are often subjected to malicious questions. If they want to win the day, they have to deal with such questions.
 For someone who claims to make politics entertaining, I get the impression that the &#8220;pre-screening&#8221; is very strict. I&#8217;m not sure what he wants to do.
 He is a very tough guy, but I don&#8217;t know what he wants to do.
 Nevertheless, his enthusiastic supporters have not wavered. A woman in her 40s who volunteered for the campaign said, &#8220;He&#8217;s been getting ahead with his Internet strategy.
 He has risen to prominence through his Internet strategy. Many of his supporters treat TV, radio, and newspapers as &#8220;trash.
 I think he has taken into account their wishes and has made it clear that he has a tough stance against the old media. Supporters are now feeling a sense of humiliation at the sight of Mr. Ishimaru taking on the &#8220;mass media.
 Immediately after the vote count on August 7, Mr. Ishimaru said of his loss of the election
 &#8220;The mass media, including NHK, did not handle it at all at first,&#8221; he said.
 The supporters who gathered at the polls were not happy with the way he was treated by the media. The supporters who gathered in front of him said, &#8220;Yes, yes!
 Yes, yes!
 The mass media is a bunch of trash!
 and &#8220;Screw the trash!
 A woman in her 40s, as mentioned above, said
 His stance is to wipe out the vested interests and the &#8220;old-timers&#8221; in the Diet. Many of his supporters think that Ishimaru is fine as he is. The media makes a fuss about the &#8216;headwinds,&#8217; but his supporters, on the contrary, are strengthening their relationship with him.
 He asserts.
 Ishimaru appeared on the late-night variety show &#8220;All Night Fujiko&#8221; (Fuji Television) on January 12, and was asked by a female college student, &#8220;Who is your type of girl? He showed a different side of himself by smiling and responding to questions from female university students such as, &#8220;Who is your type of girl? His harsh attitude toward the existing mass media may be an appeal to his &#8220;bedrock supporters.
 On the other hand, he also appeals to young independents by showing a &#8220;soft&#8221; Ishimaru image on variety shows and the like, showing that he is different from the old politicians. He is a very controversial figure, but I think it is a well-calculated and successful strategy,&#8221; said a reporter for a national newspaper.
 The &#8220;Ishimaru whirlwind&#8221; is likely to continue.

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