Masashi Tashiro

Masashi Tashiro (????? Tashiro Masashi, born August 31, 1956 in Saga Prefecture, brought up in Tokyo) is a former Japanese television performer, former member of Rats & Star. His nickname is "Marcy".

Provisional Winner of Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2001

In an Internet survey, he was adjudged a provisional winner of Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2001 possibly because he was popular among 2ch users. Since Tashiro was infamous in the Japanese media for committing several crimes, 2ch programmers developed many scripts such as "Tashiro Cannon" (Tashiro-h?, ???), "Mega particle Tashiro Cannon" (Mega-ry?shi Tashiro-h?, ???????), 25 repeated blows Tashiro Cannon" (Nijy?-go renda Tashiro-h?, 25?????) "Super Tashiro Cannon" (Ch? Tashiro-h?, ????) to be able to vote efficiently. Since "Super Tashiro Cannon" was especially powerful, it shut down Time's server. Afterwards, "Satellite Cannon -Tashiro-" was developed, but it was restrained.

Related Topics:
Internet - Time Magazine - Person of the Year - 2001 - Japanese media

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Due to the votes of 2ch users, Tashiro got to the No. 1 position temporarily on December 21, 2001. However, Time's staff noticed that something was unusual, and Tashiro was removed from the contest.

Related Topics:
December 21 - 2001

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Comments that was written by 2ch users when the Internet survey goes as follows

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• He is God.
• All Japanese worship him as God.
• He is the most famous photographer in Japan.
• I'm sick and tired of it.
• I think he is the key person of the friendly relationship between Korea and Japan.
• He is the immortal master piece of humankind, so he is God.
• He is a stupid lord's retainer.
• He is a comedian overly famous for Japan. He is loved by people in the world, is an appropriate person.
• He is the hero who took laughter in exchange for life.
• He is the most wonderful entertainer in the world.
• The passion over his photography exceeds Robert Capa.
• His behavior will never be forgettable.
• He did not betray expectation of people.
• He is the existence near God in the world.
• He is the man of only one person that can stop war by laughter.
• Probably, when he was in Afghanistan, war didn't break out.
• Needless to say.
• We Japanese love him very much! Instead I tell you why I selected him, I must tell you why he is so cool!
• He is sex symbol.
• To dance is Tashiro! Tashiro is to dance!
• He is a hero. There is not a person by whom he was loved by Japanese people.
• Tashiro is a player more wonderful than Ichiro.
• Tashiro was Japanese great comedian.
• He has octopus on the ear.
• I'm Tashiro's fan. he is very nice photographer!!
• I think, he is a last true entertainer in the world.