Japanese → English transcript

I know very well the time when Sanae Takaichi first entered the TV world and started

making a name for herself. Uh, that producer said to me,“ How about this

person as my next partner?” and introduced her to me, but… I turned him down.

Sanae Takaichi— there is an American member of the House,

Patricia Schroeder, she is that famous liberal congresswoman involved in the

feminist movement, and the, uh, congressional legislative aide

there— in English this is called a congressional fellow,

and when you translate that into Japanese,

it is called a congressional legislative aide,

and she came back to Japan claiming she had served as a congressional

legislative aide. At first, Mr. Tahara had left, which was unfortunate,

but she appeared on“ Asa made Nama Terebi!”

and, she got her name out there a bit, and before long she naturally sort of

slipped in, and in the end she entered the world of politics.

Before we knew it, she had become Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.

But when I actually looked into it closely,

it turned out she was not a congressional legislative aide, you know,

which is a proper paid position under contract— that is what a fellow is.

However, in her case, she was an unpaid, non- contract“ fellow” treated

as a trainee, and in reality she only did things like making copies and serving tea.

If you do a proper search online and so on, this comes up right away,

so please take a look. To probably become a congressional legislative aide fellow,

you need to have built up a fair amount of experience. But Ms.

Takaichi went off to America just like that without gaining such experience,

and she was just someone who jumped in there. So in that sense,

I would call it résumé fraud. Résumé fraud. And if, because of this,

I were to be sued for defamation, I would stand and fight. But for someone who

engages in résumé fraud like that

to say things like“ We’ll cut off a TV station’s signal”

or“ We won’t cut it off”— does she even have the right to say that?