A 47-year-old provincial politician was rapidly becoming an Internet phenomenon in Japan on Wednesday after crying like a toddler as he tried to explain his profligate use of public funds. Television talk shows carried looped footage of a press conference in which Ryutaro Nonomura wails and bangs his fists on the desk as tears stream down his face. Nonomura, who was elected to the assembly in Hyogo in western Japan in 2011, is suspected of misusing three million yen ($30,000) of official allowances. “(Crying)… I finally became an assembly member … (crying)… with the sole purpose of changing society,” he shrieked during the three-hour press conference in Kobe, Hyogo’s main city.
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