Leaked footage on video-sharing site YouTube showing a collision between a Chinese fishing boat and Japan Coast Guard vessels has sparked online discussion in Japan about the uploader, who used the account name "sengoku38."
It is widely believed that the use of the name "sengoku" was a jab at Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku. In a news conference on Nov. 5, Sengoku himself said, "I thought, 'Hang on.' I don't post on YouTube very much."
Most debated online is the meaning of "38" in the account name. One official from an Internet search company said it was likely that the uploader added a number with some sort of meaning as the account name "sengoku" by itself was probably already registered.
When "38" is pronounced in Japanese as "sanpaa" it could be seen as a derogatory term as it is similar to a southern Chinese dialect term meaning "idiot" or "stupid." This sparked online comments that it was meant to "mock Sengoku's foreign policy stance" and that the uploader "may be someone familiar with the Chinese language."
On Oct. 25, before the video was leaked, a message that could be taken as an advance notice of the leak was posted on an Internet bulletin board, and the number of that post was the same.
"It may have been an appeal matching the advance notice of the leak," said one commentator. It was also suggested that "san," one reading of the number "3" in Japanese, meant "to disperse" and that "8" resembled the Democratic Party of Japan's logo. Other Internet users, meanwhile suggested that "38" was supposed to mean "saraba" (farewell), "saha" (left wing), or was a r
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