Hideya Sugio (68), former TBS anchor and member of the House of Councilors of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, updated his X (formerly Twitter) on March 28. He questioned Norimi Onoda, 42, Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Security, who protested against a weekly magazine’s coverage of his neighborhood, calling it a “nuisance. In a post on March 26, Onoda said, “People in my hometown and my classmates have been interviewed by a weekly magazine, Shincho. I don’t know where the personal information is leaked, but it’s scary and weird,” said Onoda, who revealed that he has received numerous SOS from his own neighborhood. Some of them said that if they did not agree to be interviewed, they were asked to give reasons why they refused the interview, and some felt as if they were being hounded,” he continued. Sugio quoted from an article discussing the case, “I don’t know what kind of interviewing behavior it was. However, if it is not something that deviates from common sense, it would be an exaggeration to assume that the media coverage is ‘nuisance. He added, “Especially those on the side of power are supposed to be checked. I feel a strong sense of discomfort with this post,” he continued. Mr. Onoda was the captain of Mr. Takaichi’s camp in the presidential election. His father is American and his mother Japanese, born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and raised in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, he was first elected to the Okayama district in the 2016 Upper House election as an official candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, and in the 2010 Upper House election he won a landslide victory despite announcing that he would not receive support from the New Komeito Party, which led to his nickname “Jeanne d’Arc of Okayama She was also called the “Jeanne d’Arc of Okayama.
