Supporters of Ichiro Ozawa shout "banzai" to a car carrying Ozawa as he leaves the Tokyo District Court on Thursday. The court acquitted Ozawa of charges of violating fund-raising law.
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Supporters of Ichiro Ozawa shout "banzai" to a car carrying Ozawa as he leaves the Tokyo District Court on Thursday. The court acquitted Ozawa of charges of violating fund-raising law.
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cactusJack
Nobody under 55 years old in that shot.
cactusJack
Heck, 60.
Ben Jack
Gee, that sure is a shock.
PeaceWarrior
Nah... They were shouting 犯罪 (はんざい)!
Wakarimasen
Rent a crowd.
Tatanka
Why are this idiots smiling. Ozawa has the money and these old geezers while go home to their dank houses/apartments to eat cat food...
tmarie
Rent a granny is more like it. Don't these women realize the damage they're doing to the youth of this country by supporting such snakes?! Oh right, they don't care. They'll be dead when everything falls apart. Just like those in power.
Franchesca Miyara Yang
Yuck! Look at that crowd.. All soon-to-be extinct dinosaurs...
Just like CactusJack said.. No one under 60! ROFL
nath
Cactus, there is only one clear face in that picture besides the posters. How can you make such a judgment call?
I know a lot of young people that think Ozawa is the only hope they have.
cubic
That woman in the red jacket is a moron.
Okinawamike
"That woman in the red jacket is a moron".
It's his mom, shame on you!
Okinawamike
Is the guy above the center picture of Ozawa, Ozawa himself, clapping his hands?
smithinjapan
Look at all the young people in that shot! Thanks for helping destroy the country, people. Sheesh... cheering for injustice!
NetNinja
We still run this country, Banzai!!!
smithinjapan
Call it irony if you want that these people cheering for such a guy would never see their hopes realized if he were a leader, I just call it profound stupidity. But hey, Ozawa can quit again when he fails them and then again blame pass it on to the next guy.
smithinjapan
Sorry... 'blame' or 'pass'. You choose. I'll try and choose to edit from here on in.
Ben Jack
To the thumbs downers, I was not really shocked. I was attempting sarcasm. However, the fact is that beyond impressions, the prosecution failed to bring enough evidence to trial to convict him. I think most people still think he was guilty, but that does not change the fact that the case was not proven. Unless we want mob rule, we have to sometimes accept such failures and learn from them. Hopefully, he does not get to a position from which he can further ruin things.
WilliB
Good grief, who are these people?
Ben Jack
Ozawafanatics.
Zen student
My God, how sad is this. Haven't these people got anything better to do on a Thursday afternoon? Ah, oo, wait, sorry. I just noticed their age.
Zen student
The guy in the middle of the photo standing right at the back kind of looks like Ozawa too.
iceshoecream
That is one thing you'll never see me doing. Not Ozawa, not Ishihara, not any other politician.
minello7
looks like the picture of Ozawa was taken after the verdict, but then again he must have known the outcome . He probably thinks now he can walk on water.
yasukuni
Great that he has at least a few enthusiastic followers. They look like groupies!
gyouza
Political forces get crowds to cheer at public event, spontaneously demonstrating love and devotion for the true leader. But this isn't North Korea!
smithinjapan
gyouza: "Political forces get crowds to cheer at public event, spontaneously demonstrating love and devotion for the true leader. But this isn't North Korea!"
That's a good point! I bet you my bottom yen though they'd claim to be totally different while they preach the same crap. Actually, I'd bet they'd launch a rocket on Ozawa's behalf!
suitasteve
Sheep
Hikozaemon
Suitasteve - agreed, but not in the photo.
BigBoy69
A bunch of old farts.. but then again.. that's the new and improved Japan
tmarie
Good grief, who are these people? Old, never worked, never paid pension, nearly dead. Good riddance.
ubikwit
they are people that know that ozawa was being railroaded by the monied establishment.
this charge was a trumped up drop in the bucket compared to the major scandals of the big politicos, but it was the best the scambags could come up with.
whether you like ozawa or not, he is certainly much cleaner than 99% of all other bigwig politicos of the past 50 years in japan.
and he is one of the only ones to actually push the interests of the middle class.
tmarie
If you watched it on the news, it was ALL old people. Mostly women though of course, the TV stations interviewed the men only... Interesting how they'll be out for this but not for demonstrating for other things... Indeed, rent a crowd.