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[GIRLS CHANNEL:JPN] Southern All Stars' Kuwata Keisuke Offers His Sincere Apologies


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Southern All Stars' "Kuwata Keisuke" announced an apology at a live stage, "I deeply reflected and offer my most sincere apologies."


Translated by Owatari @ www.onehallyu.com


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[+1768] It's already too late


 


[+2379] Wearing a small mustache like Hamada, I think it's like his behavior is an insult to the emperor.


 


[+962] Aaa After so much time has passed…


 


[+2111] I was really disillusioned with Southern 


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[-351] This amusable reaction is too soon


 


[+1348] I'd absolutely do it again


 


[+1293] Because this topic was a joke, it doesn't look like he is searching  his conscience deeply


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[+363] He's alway been a mean fellow


 


[+518] Kuwata's apology… somehow feels terribly uncomfortable 


 


[+425] Did people really think it was that bad?? Despite having a wrinkled face he has the mind of a boy.


 


[+562] Sazan = South Korea


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[+351] This was a nationwide broadcast.


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Can someone tell me what's going on?

 

 

What's going on? I don't understand what I've just seen..

 

 

 

Can someone tell me what's going on?

 

 

 

 

 

Can someone tell me what's going on?

 

 

 

 

i don't get it but the last pic.... are they flashing panties

 

oh he's impersonating Hitler with that moustache

 

He recently made a few political jokes at the expense of Shinzo Abe, Japan's Prime Minister and has done so in the past.

 

Quoting Onehallyu's SAS expert Ryusenkai for more info

 

 

First of all, a lot of what's been said on this topic is to a certain extent hearsay, since no one really knows what their intent was with the moustache (I've seen a LOT of assumption on this in the past couple days), particularly since SAS joke around and play with controversy a lot anyway. You're asking that we report on a singular interpretation of an event that doesn't necessarily square with what was actually said by Kuwata in the lead-up to them playing (I've roughly 3 years of Japanese under my belt, so I'm more than capable of getting the gist of what was said during the interview prior to the performances). Doing such would seem to trivialize the whole situation and strike down any interpretation that wasn't the one expressed in such an article, which with an assertion like this one, I'm not comfortable with.

Furthermore, Abe was at one of their earlier New Years Eve shows and Kuwata did mess with him lyrically (he changed a couple words to a different song) - Abe still came out saying he enjoyed it. While yes, it's POSSIBLE that they're not exactly eye-to-eye politically... I don't really see a significant difference between these antics and the band's usual style of humor (see singles like Manpy no G-Spot or Erotica Seven for how far they're willing to go); it wouldn't particularly surprise me if that was edging more into politics as they've gotten older.

People have been saying they're anti-Abe since "Peace & Hi-lite"'s PV came out back in 2013, but there's never really been any strict admissions that they want anything more than better relations between the Asian nations, which I do believe to be true.

Lastly, the "insane" part mentioned in the above tweet? Those lyrics have been part of the song I just mentioned since it was first released, and the ones used in the performance match up with those used in the studio version. This whole thing is retreading a discussion that was already started and finished and has now been dug up because someone happened to hear the song for the first time during Kouhaku. Might the lyrics be criticism of Abe? Possibly, but the Japanese media debated the possibility themselves in August of 2013 and the results were as you might expect, inconclusive.

In conclusion, I'm not going to write some sensationalist hit-piece based on year-old suspicions about the motivations of a pop-rock band who have always had a very unusual and sometimes provocative sense of humor.

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He recently made a few political jokes at the expense of a Abe Hiroshi, Japan's Prime Minister. 

 

Quoting Onehallyu's SAS expert Ryusenkai for more info

Thank you for the explanation! :)

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