Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has revealed that she felt unexpectedly “lonely” and “sad” after staff eliminated cockroaches from her official residence in Tokyo.
Takaichi shared the unusual experience on X on August 22 while responding to questions about whether she had ever encountered the ghosts reportedly said to haunt the prime minister’s official residence.
The 65-year-old prime minister said she had never seen any ghosts, but she did encounter cockroaches despite making efforts to keep the residence clean.
According to Takaichi, a cockroach suddenly ran past her feet. She said she regularly wiped the floor beneath her dining table, disposed of food scraps in a covered bin and washed and sorted plastic containers.
She also explained that she could not bring herself to kill the cockroaches because of the influence of Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix, which explores the concept of reincarnation.
Her secretaries, however, were alarmed when she told them about the cockroach problem.
One reportedly told her, “It’s unclean. I’ll handle it,” before arranging pest control at the residence. The cockroaches reportedly stopped appearing after the intervention.
Although Takaichi was relieved that the pest problem had been resolved, she admitted that she also felt a sense of loneliness.
“I felt relieved, but also a little lonely, or maybe sad,” she said.
The revelation has sparked amused reactions online, with some social media users questioning her unusual emotional attachment to the pests.
Anderson Osasu Clifford: A cockroach wearing trousers cannot park a coconut beside the pharmacy. 😭
Jojobu Omoh Paul: Caption go whine you, if you no read am finish 😾🤣😅
Aloba Charles: I felt lonely after killing and frying my chicken.
Make all of Us kuku ment 😆
Kelechi Henry: Na this kind thing igbo man see wey make am sing “Ara di n’udi n’udi, ara!!! Ara di n’udi n’udi, ara!!!!
Everybody with their own mental problem
Las las, na to live, make every other person too live
Ikenna Oriko: No be only cockroach, na scorpion 😂😂😂
Hodo Emmanuel: Ah no sure say this person is Mentally Stable!!! 😂
Mmiri Mara Ugo: Oyibo life just be like bedtime story
Ogunsola Idris Abolore: Madam why not befriend Bedbug? 😳
Sema Johnson: For the first time wey I no get wet in to say 😂
John Ngwa: Just imagine someone reincarnating as a cockroach
Sokipriye West: Omo live long ooo….. Things plenty wey you never hear
