In addition to Abe, there are these embarrassing things on the diplomatic stage of the Japanese prime minister!

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Not long ago, in order to entertain the visiting US President Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fell on the golf course and rolled over, which was infinitely magnified by the Japanese media. In fact, he is not the only head of the Japanese government who has been recorded in history for making an embarrassing incident.

The most famous embarrassment of the Japanese prime minister is Shigeru Yoshida's "toilet paper incident". In August 1951, Shigeru Yoshida, then Prime Minister of Japan, traveled to San Francisco to attend the Peace Conference with Japan. The text of the speech he prepared was actually written in English by the staff of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in accordance with the instructions of the United States occupying forces, and it was full of flowery words of praise for the United States. Jiro Shirasu, who went with him as an adviser, thought that this speech was detrimental to Japan's dignity, "Since it was a peace conference with Japan, then the representatives of our defeated countries should also enjoy the same status as the representatives of the victorious countries. Still speak in the language of the other country? ”

For the sake of Japan's "dignity", Shigeru Yoshida and Jiro Shirasu began to rewrite the speech in the hotel where they lived, and since Shigeru Yoshida did not have enough time to memorize it and lived in a place where there was no typewriter, the two temporarily decided to write the speech on a roll of paper that was 30 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. On September 8, 1951, at the signing ceremony of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Shigeru Yoshida delivered a speech while unfolding the roll of paper. That situation, in the eyes of American journalists, is not to mention how funny. The media reports of the day all read, "Shigeru Yoshida is talking with toilet paper." Even the Asahi Shimbun's "Tenso renren" column refers to it as a "comical roll of paper."

However, this kind of "funny" is precisely Shigeru Yoshida's weapon. In 1946, when Japan suffered a food crisis, Shigeru Yoshida asked MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in Japan, for 4.5 million tons of grain in one mouth, "if we do not hurry to send 4.5 million tons of grain to Japan, our people will starve to death." In the end, the United States sent only 700,000 tons of grain to Japan. Nevertheless, it was enough for Japan to overcome the famine. The "deceived" MacArthur naturally did not let Goshige Yoshida go, "Your Statistics in Japan are too outrageous, don't you say that 4.5 million tons is enough?" How can 700,000 tons be enough? Shigeru Yoshida replied, "If Japan is really so reliable, how can it start a war?" If the Japanese could really do statistics, we wouldn't be defeated. MacArthur couldn't help but laugh. In this way, a funny joke solved Japan's food crisis and exempted it from the punishment of "cheating".

Ichiro Hatoyama, who successfully ousted Shigeru Yoshida, actually made many appearances on the international stage. In 1956, Ichiro Hatoyama, then Prime Minister of Japan, accompanied by Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Ichiro Kono, visited Moscow with illness and met with Bulganin and Khrushchev. Perhaps too nervous, he actually rolled off the bed while sleeping in the hotel, and his forehead hit the corner of the table fiercely, leaving a deep wound. In order not to let the outside world find out that he was panicking, he ordered the accompanying doctor to stuff a degreasing cotton into the wound on his forehead and paste a small piece of brown-colored rubber paste close to the skin color. When a reporter asked him what was wrong, he replied that he had a "pimple" on his forehead.

After entering the Kremlin and taking his seat, Bulganin obviously saw that Hatoyama's lack of confidence was enough, so he first gave him a dismount, pointed at Kono Ichiro and said, "The last time Mr. Kono came, he was so nervous that he overturned the teacup at this table. ”

At the dinner party, Khrushchev appeared on the scene, and did not show mercy to Hatoyama Ichiro. When both sides had canceled their speeches, Khrushchev stood up toward the end of the dinner and said, "Please listen to me." This goes on to mention the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, how bad the Japanese were, how they occupied the land, how they killed people. In his memoirs in his later years, Hatoyama wrote, "He said that Japan was worthless and degraded to the end. Even Bulganin next to me was embarrassed. ”

Ichiro Hatoyama was scolded by Khrushchev face to face with a bloody dog for 20 minutes. Knowing that Kono Ichiro could not drink, Khrushchev forced him to pour a large glass of brandy. According to Hatoyama's own records, Kono Ichiro was full of anger but did not dare to explode, so he could only secretly make small moves, and took back a large paper knife on Khrushchev's desk and gave it to Hatoyama Ichiro.

After returning to Japan, Ichiro Hatoyama put the large paper knife in his study. In February 1957, when the new Soviet ambassador to Japan, Ivan Javo, came to visit Hatoyama, Hatoyama deliberately wielded the knife and told the new ambassador to Japan, "This is kono Ichiro took from Khrushchev!" It can also be regarded as a distant revenge. (Jiang Feng)