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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Was Japanese Commercial Racist Towards Barack Obama?

From June 22, 2008 -

A controversy in recent days has been raging with expats in Japan over whether a commercial by a Japanese cell phone provider E-mobile, is a racial slur towards US Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama.

The commercial in question shows the company’s mascot, a monkey doing a parody of Barack Obama’s campaign stump speech about “change”.

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