Country of Insularism III

Country of Insularism III

This week, people in Japan seem to be enthusiastic about Mr. Ryo Ishii.

15 years old Mr. Ryo Ishii won a golf tournament this week. This is the youngest record to win the golf tournament.
He was given a nick name called “Hanikami Oji” (=Bashful prince) and all newspapers were writing articles about him.
Also he invited to prime ministers house the day before yesterday and shook hands with Mr. Abe of the prime minister.

But wait, wait, wait, wait…

Of course, the prize of young athlete becomes news. It should be.
In Spain, sometime I can see Mr. Fernando Alonso (racing driver) or Mr. Rafael Nadal (tennis player) cover the top page of national paper.
But it is only the case they win the match of WORLD GAME, they never put the top of the page about domestic game (except football).

And what Mr. Ishii have got win was domestic tournament, not world one.

If he wants to become world class player, it is just first step for him.
The current situation surrounds him is not good for him. It is too noisy, I guess.
He needs much more practice and he should NOT spend the time for bull shit things like having interview with media.
As he is still 15 years old, someone must protect him from media who just acts for their own curiosity.
I have seen many players had killed by media's curiosity and I do not like to see anymore.

Not only the mass media's attitude but also people in Japan's attitude has a problem.
People tend to be enthuasitic for domestic match because few Japanese players can have capability to win in worldwide game. Or, few Japanese players win in worldwide game so that people find the joy only from domestic game, I am not sure which is the first and which is the last.

Anyway, I feel that the current enthusiastic attitude of Japanese press about Mr. Ryo Ishii is too much.