Comments on: CNN online poll: 98% think it is appropriate for Shinzo Abe to visit Yasukuni Shrine

By: abc

abc — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:12:19 +0000

The poll was obviously manipulated(probably the reason why CNN took it down). This isnt the first time that a CNN poll was hijacked by Japanese net users.

“In 2001, 2ch users voted en-masse for Japanese TV performer Masashi Tashiro as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. This act was soon dubbed the “Tashiro Festival” (Tashiro Matsuri, 田代祭) by 2ch users. Tashiro was infamous in the Japanese media for committing several crimes, including peeping up a woman’s skirt using a camcorder, using stimulants twice, peeping in a male bath and causing a car accident. 2ch programmers developed many scripts such as “Tashiro Cannon” (Tashiro-hō, 田代砲), “Mega particle Tashiro Cannon” (Mega-ryūshi Tashiro-hō, メガ粒子田代砲), “25 repeated blows Tashiro Cannon” (Nijyū-go renda Tashiro-hō, 25連打田代砲) “Super Tashiro Cannon” (Chō Tashiro-hō, 超田代砲) to be able to vote repeatedly. “Super Tashiro cannon” was so powerful that it crashed Time’s server. Due to the votes of 2ch users, he got to the No. 1 position temporarily on December 21, 2001. However, Time’s staff realized that something was unusual, and Tashiro was removed as a candidate.[5]“- wiki

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:56:00 +0000

Ha! I’m retarded and should check the dates on these posts.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:54:30 +0000

I can’t see the poll for some reason when I click the link. Can we get another update?

By: James

James — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:11:49 +0000

If one was to replace the word “short” with “exaggerated,” that comment would be fairly accurate.

By: sterling

sterling — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:04:07 +0000

Yeah, the short story of the Yasukuni shrine is that it’s Asia’s equivalent of of Chancellor Merkel going to Hitler’s Bunker and leaving flowers.

By: wes

wes — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:38:54 +0000

yasukuni shrine isn’t exactly part of our history lessons so people haven’t forgot about it they’ve just never heard of it. most americans probably don’t know it exists, much less know it includes war criminals.
if they hear about the controversy they might just hear about how it pisses off china and korea and assume it’s something between them

By: junosora

junosora — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:44:59 +0000

weird…

i’m assuming most of cnn readers are americans, or at least native english speakers.

i guess people don’t care that the war criminals in yasukuni are for the most part criminals because of war atrocities they commited on their foes. that foe happens to include americans. you know, beheading of american GI prisoners, etc.

how soon some people forget their history.