<figure id="attachment_409219" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-409219" style="width: 1791px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b55c8215"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/5c97a51a705b3c07451bf59688a7a8e9.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-409219" class="wp-caption-text">Shinji Ishimaru has launched a new party for this summer&#8217;s Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly elections. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2> Is TV Asahi here to see you?</h2>
 Shinji Ishimaru, 42, who drew attention in last year&#8217;s Tokyo gubernatorial election, held a press conference on January 15 to announce the launch of a new regional political party
 Mr. Ishimaru first looked around the press room and &#8230;&#8230;,
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 He asked, &#8220;By the way, are you here today, TV Asahi? No? We can&#8217;t start the press conference without TV Asahi.
 He seemed annoyed.
 Mr. Ishimaru was upset because of the editing of the VTR on TV Asahi&#8217;s information program &#8220;Good Morning,&#8221; which was reported during the Tokyo gubernatorial election! Morning,&#8221; a TV Asahi program that reported on the Tokyo gubernatorial election, was biased, and in an Internet program at the end of December, he &#8220;chastised&#8221; a TV Asahi reporter.
 Morning,&#8221; he declared in an Internet program at the end of December.
 Morning,&#8221; and had declared in an Internet program at the end of December that he would &#8220;shut down&#8221; the TV Asahi reporter.
 Furthermore, on January 15, Ishimaru appeared on the YouTube channel &#8220;ReHacQ-ReHacQ.
 He said, &#8220;I was supposed to be on ABEMA Prime at 9:00 p.m., but it was canceled. I got the call around the time the press conference was over.&#8221;
 He revealed.
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 When Hiroki Takahashi, a former TV Tokyo producer who runs Rehack, asked why, Ishimaru guessed that &#8220;ABEMA is affiliated with TV Asahi.
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<h2>It is also OK to work with other parties.</h2>
 In a YouTube video posted after the election, Mr. Ishimaru told several TV stations, including TV Asahi, that he would never be interviewed by them again and that he had &#8220;banned&#8221; them from interviewing him. He seemed to sense that there was hostility, and with a provocative smile, he said, &#8220;You see, you&#8217;re in trouble, aren&#8217;t you? What do you want me to do?　What are you going to do? The sponsors will be furious with you. Ishimaru, who had become a &#8220;man of the moment,&#8221; seemed to think that the TV station would be in trouble if he could not do the interview.
 However, he checked to see if TV Asahi had been at the press conference, and as it turned out, they had not. In fact, TV Asahi did not broadcast Mr. Ishimaru&#8217;s press conference at all. Well, I didn&#8217;t go there in the first place, so there was no material,&#8221; said a wide-show desk clerk.
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 TV Asahi, which had previously been banned from the event, must be dissatisfied with Mr. Ishimaru, judging from the fact that they even canceled his ABEMA appearance this time. If they do not report on Mr. Ishimaru at all in the future, it could be detrimental to him.
 While Mr. Ishimaru criticized the media heavily during the press conference, he also said
 I really want to rely on the power of the media. I believe in that power.
 He also stated, &#8220;I really want to rely on the power of the media. He had previously declared that he was banned from the media, but now he seems to be hoping that the media will get the message out.
 Ishimaru announced at the press conference that his regional political party, &#8220;The Way of Rebirth,&#8221; has &#8220;no specific policies. The party has only one rule. The only rule of the party is &#8220;the limitation of multiple elections.
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 He explained, &#8220;After being elected, I will be limited to two terms of eight years as a Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly member, after which I will be allowed to engage in local political activities as the head of a municipality. He also said that he would be allowed to work for other parties. He seemed to want to broaden his range of activities and produce winners from his own party, and was enthusiastic about his plan to field candidates in all 42 constituencies in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly elections to be held this summer.
 Participation in this press conference was limited to press club members or the equivalent of one million registered online media, and once information about the venue&#8217;s location was leaked, the venue was changed.
 On the same day, Yomiuri TV&#8217;s news program &#8220;ten.
 &#8220;Free Press Excluded from &#8220;New Ishimaru Party&#8221; Press Conference&#8221; on Yomiuri TV.
 The program featured commentator and writer Wakaichi Wakakazu as the &#8220;New Ishimaru Party&#8221; reporter. Commentator and writer Koji Wakaichi said
 What I really wonder is why he seems to be so eloquent. I feel that they are looking down on us from above.
 He also commented on social networking sites.
 I was amused that he held a press conference with practically all the old media after criticizing the old media so much.
 He is the type of person I don&#8217;t want to work with.
 Mr. Ishimaru&#8217;s winning attitude has been criticized by some as &#8220;the type I don&#8217;t want to work with.
 After last year&#8217;s gubernatorial election, Beat Takeshi (77) said of Ishimaru on his TV program
 I get the feeling that the world won&#8217;t move unless he answers in good faith,&#8221; Beat Takeshi (77) commented on his show after last year&#8217;s Tokyo gubernatorial election.
 He commented, &#8220;I have the feeling that the world won&#8217;t move unless I answer in good faith.
 The reaction of the public is also a matter of concern, but will there be a number of candidates who will seek election based on Ishimaru&#8217;s &#8220;popularity&#8221;?

 Takayuki Ogawauchi

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