Power and elegance: the language of Sakurai Yoshiko

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URLs of the shows from which Sakurai’s speech was extracted:

Commentator 1: [Fitche Gilbourne]. 2017, November 19. Shinchū-ha noda seiko no shōtai o bakuro! [The true self of the pro-China Seiko Noda [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/au5wXP6PLNg on 11/8/2018.Suche in Google Scholar

Commentator 2: [Shinsō News]. 2018, August 7. Sakurai yoshiko x gemba kōichirō[Yoshiko Sakurai vs Koichiro Gemba] [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFYBiNl_qBg&t=35s on 16/8/2018.Suche in Google Scholar

Debater 1: [Rudy Weaver]. 2017, September 4. Sakurai yoshiko ga fukushima mizuho no rekishi ninshiki o furubokko-chūni bangumi MC ga dokutā sutoppu www [Host of a show intervenes Yoshiko Sakurai when she is refuting Mizuko Fukushima’s perception of historical facts lol]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tluk2F2RGLw on 11/8/2018.Suche in Google Scholar

Debater 2: [News365Japan]. 2010, November 26. Renhōno shishō (takano takeshi) ga asanama kara hazusareta kikkake ga yabai![The incident that saw the mentor of Renhoo (takano takeshi) removed from the ‘asa nama’show is sensational]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGA3YgTmleg&t=222s on 11/8/2018.Suche in Google Scholar

Panellist: [Globis chikenron]. 2015, July 3. Asahi shimbun: seiki no daigohō wa naze okotta no ka [Why did the biggest false report of the century by Asahi Shimbun occur?]. [Video file] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165447kAot0 on 5/04/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

Show Host 1: [Genron terebi]. 2019, April 19. Saishin’ei suterusu F35A tsuiraku jiko no nazo [Mystery of the crash of the state-of-the-art stealth fighter F35A]. [Video file] Retrieved from https://www.genron.tv/ch/sakura-live/archives/live?id=595 on 19/04/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

Show Host 2: [Genron terebi]. 2018, October 8. Don ga gōrei! Takeshita-ha ga Ishiba-shiji ni bunretsu [Godfather of the political world gave an order. The Takeshita group split to support Ishiba]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.genron.tv/ch/sakura-live/archives/live?id=523 on 10/08/2018.Suche in Google Scholar

Show Host 3: [Genron terebi]. 2019, May 10. Kore ga shinjitsu! Hagyūda-shi no shōhi zōzei hatsugen [This is the truth! The comment Mr Hagyūda made on consumption tax increase]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.genron.tv/ch/sakura-live/archives/live?id=601 on 11/05/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

Show Host 4: [Genron terebi]. 2019, February 1. Rēdā shōsha wa kokuren’ampori ni mochikome [Take the radar lock-on dispute to the UN Security Council]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.genron.tv/ch/sakura-live/archives/live?id=573 on 2/02/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

Show Host 5: [Genron terebi]. 2019 March 4. Taiwan ga abunai. Nihon wa nani o su-beki ka [Taiwan is in danger. What should Japan do?]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.genron.tv/ch/sakura-live/archives/live?id=583 on 8/03/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

Other URLs from which quotes were extracted:

[yogofuryoNeo]. 2005, August 15. Nihon no kore kara [Japan’s future]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdEjykeyDN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdEjykeyDN4 on 25/4/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

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[wa nihon]. 2013, June 15. Roku tai ichi demo shimeage [Tightly argued even though outnumbered six to one]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFJ2jPlAPI&t=35s` on 25/4/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

[Kimura Hajime]. 2014, May 20. Sakurai Yoshiko-shi, nama-hōsō de kankokujin ronkyaku san-nin o kanzen rompa [Ms Sakurai thoroughly defeats an argument against three Korean debaters on a live broadcast]. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9Q4gLHixg on 25/4/2019.Suche in Google Scholar

[Samurai News]. 2018, May 3. Sakurai yoshiko, kami-enzetsu: Edano yukio no daimujun ni akireru [Yoshiko Sakurai, the best speech ever: appalled at Yukio Edano’s self-contradiction]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBGAaz0DDA on 30/3/2020.Suche in Google Scholar

[Takeda Tsuneyasu channel 2]. 2019, September 29. Yunesuko ‘sekai kioku’ chūgoku ni hashigo hazusareta kankoku sama e [UNESCO memory of the world; to Korea who lost support from China]. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aza3Bd8JFjA on 16/11/2019.Suche in Google Scholar