Ryutaro Nonomura's Crying Apology

About

Ryutaro Nonomura’s Crying Apology refers to a series of parody images and videos targeted at Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura (Japanese: 野々村竜太郎), after a video showing him breaking down into tears during a press conference was uploaded to YouTube. After the video was uploaded, it quickly went viral, spawning many parodies.

Origin

On July 1st, 2014, Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura held a press conference in which he aimed to apologize for his suspected misuse of 3 million yen. However, during the conference, the 47-year-old provincial politician started to break down in to tears while trying to defend his actions, and began wailing uncontrollably. Within the same day, a YouTube clip depicting his outburst was uploaded (shown, below), and soon garnered over 800,000 views within its first 24 hours.

Spread

Photoshopped images, as well as MAD videos mocking Nonomura were soon uploaded to a variety of sites across the web, most notably Twitter^[1] and Nico Nico Douga (NND).^[2] The story was also quickly covered by a variety of different news sites across the web, most notably Kotaku^[3], NewsAsia^[4], The Japan Times^[5], The Independent^[6] and The Guardian^[7].

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】【ダブステップ】野々村竜太郎議員をリミックスしてみた【ニコニコ動画】兵庫県の県議会議員が全く気付かないうちにエンダアアアアアア
Left: Dubstep Mix | Right: "I Will Always Love You"
【ニコニコ動画】ﾌﾞﾛｯｸﾎﾞｰﾙｩｵｩｳｱ゛ｱｱｱｱｱｱｱｱｱｱｱーーーｩｱﾝ！【ニコニコ動画】野々村竜太郎議員が全く気付かないうちにエシディシになる
Left: BGM from Kirby’s Block Ball | Right: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Parody

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