5. Down The Hatch
Politicians have done many extreme things to make their point, but when it comes to risking your life in the process, no one outdoes Japanese MP Yasuo Sanada. After the devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan caused critical damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant the government was quick to start a clean-up operation.
Unfortunately for Sanada, many journalists were openly skeptical about the government’s claim of successfully decontamination the surrounding water supply. In an astonishing effort to prove the skeptics wrong, Sanada would take a large gulp from a glass (apparently) filled with water collected from puddles under the reactor buildings. He would go on to say that the stunt doesn’t prove anything, the facts and figures he has to hand, do.
