Posted on 09/14/2013 4:39:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Japan condemns Fukushima cartoon
Japan has formally protested over a French newspaper cartoon depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs fighting in front of the country's crippled nuclear power plant and linking it to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics.
Published: Thu, September 12, 2013
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the cartoon insulted those affected by the March 2011 disaster and misrepresented conditions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
A Foreign Ministry official said Japan has submitted an official complaint to the weekly paper Le Canard Enchaine's chief editor Louis Marie Horeau through its embassy in Paris. The official said the paper did not apologise, but acknowledged that Japan was upset over them.
The plant's recent leaks of radioactive water into the Pacific have triggered international concerns.
One of the cartoons published on Wednesday shows two sumo wrestlers, each with an extra arm and leg, facing off with the nuclear plant in the background, as a pair of spectators in hazmat suits and full-face masks watched the match from outside the ring.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
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doesn’t anybody have a sense of humor anymore?
He should just imagine the cartoons if the Olympics had gone to Turkey.....and the aftermath of those cartoons ;-)
What's good for the female mutant is good for the male mutant.
Gojira is angry
So would the USA be .
Would the US in the same situation ???
Japan condemns Fukushima cartoon Japan has formally protested over a French newspaper cartoon depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs -——
I got this far before I snortled a guffaw out.
Marvel Has Sgt. Fury fighting him in the next issue.
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