{"id":2745,"date":"2011-08-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/soba\/2011\/08\/19\/_minister_cried\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:30:00","slug":"minister-cried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/soba\/2011\/08\/minister-cried\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5927\u81e3\u6ce3\u304f Minister cried!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>I did not know this until today, but Mr Kaieda, the Minister of economy, trade and industry&nbsp;in Japan cried in the parliament last&nbsp;month. The above YouTube clip shows how the incident happened on the 29th of July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>I have read quite a few articles and books on&nbsp;cross-cultural studies before saying that Japanese people tend not to show their emotion in public. I believed that was indeed Japanese people&#8217;s cultural tendency. So what is going on in Japan now!?<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, all sorts of people made a comment on this incident. For example, Prof Uchida made a comment on in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tatsuru.com\/2011\/08\/10_0940.php\">his blog<\/a> (written in Japanese). It is very interesting; so if you understand Japanese, please read it. Prof Uchida wrote that probably this incident reflected the current trends, which are&nbsp;1. people&nbsp;cannot control emotion and 2. people do&nbsp;not think they have to control (or to hide) their emotion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not know this until today, but Mr Kaieda, the Minister of economy, trade and industry&nbsp;in Japan cried in the parliament last&nbsp;month. The above YouTube clip shows how the incident happened on the 29th of July 2011. 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