The recent Japanese general election has prompted media organisations to search for opinions from all sectors of society, but who has stopped to ask cats what they think about the political state of Japan today?
A cat that responded very strongly to the image of the victorious Liberal Democratic Party’s secretary-general Ishiba Shigeru. When Ishiba appeared on the screen, the cat became extremely excited, and its behaviour was so unusual that its owner was prompted to post the picture on their Twitter account. The tweet has become a talking point for Japanese netizens, with the original image being re-tweeted over ten thousand times.
From Rocket News 24:
[Shocking Moment]: Cat Responds to LDP Secretary-General Ishiba Shigeru! Becomes Furiously Excited and Starts Going Crazy!
The original tweet.
The image of LDP secretary-general Ishiba Shigeru on a television programme related to the election. A phenomenon has occurred where a cat who was watching the programme became furiously excited and started going crazy. Apparently the cat’s owner was really surprised by the cat’s excited stated, and immediately took a photograph.
When they uploaded a photograph on Twitter with the title ‘Picture of a cat getting excited when it sees secretary-general Ishiba Shigeru’, it started trending online and the photograph spread. It seems like it was a cat that didn’t usually go crazy like this…
The cat’s owner is the Twitter user @fkatsura. Cats occasionally respond to the television, but why might this cat have become excited after seeing Ishiba Shigeru? Maybe he had some kind of aura or something exuding from him that only a cat could understand.
By the way, the only photographs of this cat that have spread online are of it going crazy, but it seems that it is usually a cute, charming and relaxing little pussycat. The image of it getting excited is unique and therefore funny, but there are also photographs online of the cat in its usually cute state!
Comments from Itai News:
マーブルキャット(家)：
I guess it was animal instinct that made the cat do that.
バリニーズ(京都府)：
It’s become like something from the exorcist.
ヨーロッパヤマネコ(東京都)：
They’re definitely godlike creatures. I guess they have something that humans just don’t have.
ヤマネコ(神奈川県)：
If it had been Hatoyama on the screen, it would have destroyed the TV [The kanji for Hatoyama are ‘pigeon’ and ‘mountain’]
ギコ(兵庫県)：
I don’t like Ishiba. He was on TV because of the election, but he’s kind of frightening.
アメリカンショートヘア(関東・甲信越)：
I guess the cat must have felt some kind of fierce aura through the television screen…?
ペルシャ(神奈川県)：
It’s because ‘Geru has got snake eyes [‘Geru is an abbreviation of Ishiba Shigeru’s name]
エジプシャン・マウ(dion軍)：
Yep, Ishiba’s eyes are yabai
斑(大阪府)：
He’s got the face of a man so evil it shouldn’t be allowed on TV.
メインクーン(東京都)：
It’s because he’s got tiger eyes.
茶トラ(チベット自治区)：
I guess that about 50% of what Ishiba’s existence is worth is that face and those eyes.
サビイロネコ(チベット自治区)：
I guess it’s only a coincidence but sooo funny w
セルカークレックス(西日本)：
It’s all over when you’re hated by cats.
ボブキャット(WiMAX):
I suppose with eyes that narrow and a face that round, he must have seemed like a cat.
バリニーズ(長野県【緊急地震:栃木県北部M4.0最大震度3】)：
In no time at all he’ll be the next Prime Minister, he’ll revise the constitution, and he’ll be both the PM and the leader of the military. And when he is, this cat’ll be first on his list.
