"Boys who commit group rape are in good shape," Mr. Ota said. "I think they are rather normal. Whoops, I shouldn't have said that."
Things like this remind me of Dave Barry's remark about humanity upon being exposed to Japanese culture, something along the lines of how, if you strip away the superficial differences between cultures, we're all crazy.
Perhaps at the press conference the audience kind of giggled out loud at him?
