"Michael Cash" wrote ...
> (John W.) brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
>>Politicians block comic over 'fake' Nanjing Massacre tale
> 
> "Thirty-seven members of local assemblies"

So how many members are there in the 地方議員 in total?
Is that about the equivalent of local councillors in the UK.
(I couldn't quite track down how many council seats there are 
in the UK but it seems to be about 5,000)
 
> Interesting that the last word is plural, don't you think?
> 
> Could that possibly mean that 37 members of some nationwide uyoku
> nutcase organization(s) who have somehow managed to get elected to the
> lowest possible rung of political office have protested? And that the
> publishers are more cowed by fear of reprisals from their kook uyoku
> buddies than they are by the offended sensibilities of 37 scattered
> local petty officials?
> 
> And, in the interest of journalistic accuracy, is "Politicians block
> comic" an accurate headline? Certainly they took no official action
> that forcibly restrained the publishers. They haven't the authority to
> do so, even if they want to.

I want you over in that jref thread now :-P