From this the voters have learned many things—perhaps too many—including the fact that she gets by on only three hours of sleep a night!
But no one was quite ready for the PM's emotional account of how she reacted to a cockroach that infiltrated her heavily guarded official residence and was then removed by staff.
Sharing an anecdote on Twitter, Takaichi said she had been visited by a cockroach but had not killed it because she believed it could have been part of a long cycle of reincarnation.
More than that, when the insect was later exterminated, she admitted to feeling "a little lonely, or maybe sad”!!!
Yes, Japan's sleep-deprived leader is so lonely that she gets emotionally upset because an insect that disgusts most normal Japanese people had been eliminated by her staff.
In the post Takaichi said:
"I’ve written about the official residence, so I’ll also answer some of the questions I often get. ‘Have you already met the ghosts that are said to appear in the official residence?’ I’ve never encountered a ghost, but until recently I was the one screaming when I came across cockroaches. Even after moving to the official residence, I carefully wiped down the floor under the dining table, put food scraps in a sturdy lidded garbage can, and washed and sorted plastic containers, so I was shocked when, one day, a cockroach suddenly scurried past my feet."
However, Takaichi had been taught to respect all life, even roaches, by the popular manga Firebird by Osamu Tezuka:
"I’ve loved Osamu Tezuka’s Firebird since I was a child and have read it over and over many times. Firebird depicts the idea of reincarnation, that life is connected, changing forms, and it had a huge impact on me even as a child. Maybe because of that, even now as an adult, I can’t bring myself to kill insects, cockroaches included. For the cockroach that ran through the official residence, I thought things like, ‘maybe this life is also part of that long cycle of reincarnation,’ and for a while, I endured it, hoping it would somehow leave on its own – but when I told my secretaries about it, they were appalled. ‘It’s unclean. I’ll handle it,’ one of the secretaries said firmly, and arranged for Operation Combat [a reference to a popular Japanese cockroach killer]. After that, the cockroaches stopped appearing. I felt relieved, but also a little lonely, or maybe sad."
It sounds like somebody has been working too hard and maybe needs to take a break! The only question is, what former Japanese PM was reincarnated as a cockroach?
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