How to interpret 「ニッポン死ね」 in the following context In the manga Dead Tube, the presenter of a gossip video is talking about the adultery committed by a female politician called . He says that the woman was also the winner of the buzzwords contest () with the phrase , which I would translate as "death to Japan". Then he says: > … … … What has the sentence to do with desperate housewives in a nursery school or with adultery? Here is the page where it comes from for more context. Note that this is the first and last time that the presenter talks about this woman, so no other information is provided. Thank you for your help!

This is a reference to this anonymous post titled !!!, and this is obviously a reference to , a former member of . Although this is an anonymous blog post full of dirty words, Yamao used it to attack the current government, and mass media covered it for quite some time. She received the buzzword-of-the-year 2016 for this phrase, although she is not the original author. I think many Japanese people still remember it.