Japan falsified a photo of ministers because of... wrinkled trousers (7 photos)

Stupid, but so funny! Last week, the Japanese cabinet posed for an official photo when the country's new leader, Prime Minister Ishiba, was elected.





And this photo turned out... normal, ordinary.



They say the pants are terrible. When have pants like that ever looked good?

But the Japanese press service thought it was too sloppy – the trousers were creased, you could see the shirt between the jacket flaps, how awful.

So the minister's office officials spent several days working on Photoshop. And three days after the actual photo was published on social media, they published a doctored version on his website.

The Japanese compared the photos, discovered the substitution, and began actively discussing it.

Yes, it was us

The office of Prime Minister Ishiba admitted that in Japan it is standard procedure to make "minor" edits to such images. This raised questions among the people about what other possible violations of the clothing code were committed and hidden by previous leaders.





Japan has a high dress code, but almost no one knows how to wear a jacket there

- They change photos, thereby replacing people's memories. All politics is full of falsehood, - that's what they wrote on the networks.

It all sounds very funny that the Japanese immediately noticed the differences in two identical photos. That the government began to answer and justify itself for a little retouching. And that the Japanese decided that politicians cannot be trusted not after Fukushima or Minamata, their faith in people was broken by the smeared creases on trousers.

Are they pranking other countries there?



Here is a clean photo before photoshop



And here is the replaced photoshopped photo. What about the pants?

The Japanese dress code is strict, but it is a dress code

The issue of the sometimes too high dress code standard in Japan was immediately raised. Here, politicians wear tailcoats to official events, taxi drivers traditionally drive in white gloves, and civil servants generally stick to suits and ties. While some of their counterparts in other rich countries wear jeans and unbuttoned collars.



This is Shigeru Ishida, who is already disliked

But such untidiness in the clothes of a Japanese man immediately says too much. In particular, the cabinet was recruited from low-ranking, previously non-public officials who did not have a decent ironed wardrobe, the ability to wear it in public, and simply wear it so that nothing sticks out anywhere.

So they recruited country bumpkins from an ad, that was the complaint of the picky Japanese public.



As they say, find ten differences. I only noticed Ishiba's shirt on his stomach. But in Japan, everyone was very concerned about pants, and what's wrong with them?