There was a report that Taro Aso, Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, who is criticized as a ‘profanity maker’ in both Korea and Japan, made a statement to the effect that “most past presidents in Korea are killed or arrested after completing their five-year term.”
On the 13th, the Mainichi Shimbun reported that Vice-Governor Aso attended a meeting of lawmakers of the Japan-Korea Cooperation Committee formed by the Japanese political and business circles the previous day and urged President Yoon, whom he met twice last year and this year, to ‘not allow Korea-Japan relations to be shaken by a change in government.’ It was reported that he said this.
Vice-Governor Aso, who also served as Prime Minister of Japan, visited Korea in November of last year and May of this year respectively and met with President Yoon. In
particular, Vice-Governor Aso said at a meeting with members of the National Assembly that Korea’s past presidents “will return after completing their five-year terms스포츠토토.” They are usually killed or arrested,” he said, and is said to have expressed the difficulties of exchange between Korea and Japan, saying, “How can we get along as neighboring countries?” Vice Governor Aso serves as the chairman of the Korea-Japan Cooperation Committee and visited Korea in November of last year and May of this year
. There was a meeting with the president, but the report did not specifically mention whether Vice Governor Aso made remarks related to the Korean president during his visit to President Yoon.
Taro Aso, known as a byword for ‘hereditary politics’ and outrageous remarks.
Vice Governor Aso is a 14-term member of the National Assembly and is one of Japan’s leading ‘extreme right’ politicians. Vice Governor Aso is known as a ‘hereditary politician’ even in Japan, a ‘hereditary kingdom’. He comes from a prestigious family spanning both the political and business worlds, and his immediate descendants run the Aso Group, a major conglomerate in the Kyushu region.
His great-grandfather Takichi Aso made a fortune by operating the Aso Coal Mine in Fukuoka during the Japanese colonial period.
Because of this background, Vice-Governor Aso has been making outspoken remarks, and as a result, he has been criticized in both Korea and Japan as a ‘manufacturer of absurd remarks.’
Last month, at a lecture in Fukuoka City, he referred to executives, including the leader of the ruling coalition Komeito Party, as ‘cancer’, causing backlash from the Komeito Party. At the time, Vice President Aso made these harsh remarks while criticizing Komeito for not being proactive when finalizing the policy of possessing a ‘counterattack capability’ that can attack enemy bases last year.
In addition, when the possibility of postponement or cancellation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games was mentioned, he aroused controversy by calling them a “cursed Olympics.”
