meltdown #3

号泣会見で話題になった兵庫県議の野々村竜太郎氏の辞職がNewsweekでも採り上げられていました。精神的な「崩壊」を表すmeltdownは過去にブログで扱われています。ここでのmeltdownもan uncontrolled emotional outburst or a mental collapse（Oxford Dictionaries）という意味ですね。（Koyamamoto）

cf. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20130901/1377969570

Crying Japanese Politician Resigns
Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura, who became an internet sensation last week when a video of his hysterical bawling at a press conference went viral on YouTube, has resigned, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported. The Hyogo Prefectural Assembly, of which Nonomura was a member, had been investigating Nonomura for suspicious use of public money.
In 2013, Nonomura bought tickets for 195 single-day “business trips,” including 106 trips to a spa resort town in Hyogo prefecture, according to RocketNews24. Nonomura spent \3 million, about $30,000, on the tickets, The Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The video of Nonomura’s meltdown has received more than 5,200,000 hits on YouTube. Japanese teens are posting images of themselves imitating Nonomura online, in what is being called a “Nonomura pose,” Kotaku reported. Below, two Japanese teenagers mock Nonomura.
http://www.newsweek.com/crying-japanese-politician-resigns-258545