Shiraishi-san of COOP

A certain individual is secretly gaining popularity on the Internet society.

"Seikyou no Shiraishi-san (Shiraishi-san working in the COOP)."

S/he is an employee of COOP at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; just another average individual. Though, once one site mentioned about him/her, s/he has become popular. The very site's server was overwhelmed and the rumor says the site was forced closure and/or relocation. Currently, if you search on "生協の白石さん" on Google, you will see more than 1040 results. Why has s/he become so popular?

In the COOP of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, there exists an "Opinion Card" that collects opinions for COOP's cafeteria and school store. Students usually writes about how they feel about COOP, think of it, and other complaints. It's a so-called opinion box. However, students write about random things at times. Generally, people wouldn't bother to respond such opinion cards if it's an obvious joke. That's the best way possible and natural thing to do. Though, it is "Seikyou no Shiraishi-san" that answers seriously to such jokes.


Here is an example:


Q: Who is stronger: Ryu or Ken?
I bet it's the same! (Unko-man)

A: I wonder whom you meant by Ryu and Ken. (Are they characters from Manga or something...?) My speculation never ends, but if you meant Ryu Raita and Matsudaira Ken, I believe Ryu Raita's physical strength is stronger at their golden age.


Something like that.


This blog will support "Seikyou no Shiraishi-san" entirely until "Seikyou no Shiraishi-san" gives us a complaint. Our goal is to let everyone out there know about "Seikyou no Shiraishi-san." By the way, identity of "Seikyou no Shiraishi-san" is yet to be confirmed. We don't even know the gender. The administrator will be investigating the matter.

Now, let us support "Seikyou no Shiraishi-san" to the fullest!

Originally posted on May 27, 2005.




=== From the moderator of this community ===
This site consists a translation of http://shiraishi.seesaa.net/, the original Japanese site. The translator, oceanizer will be slowly working on its translations. He has not yet to get a permission from the original site's owner nor Shiraishi-san, but email has been sent. Just waiting for now.

By the way, Shiraishi-san's identity is not confirmed, but it will be revealed on later posts, so I won't mention about it this time. When searching on Google, we'll get 2,030,000 hits for 生協の白石さん now.