Now it emerges the idiots actually referred to their Prime Minister as "Foreign Minister Noda" as well, but this belongs to Foreign Minister Gemba.
All around, a diplomatic cluster-f is you ask me. Japanese web pages, blogs, etc. are full of it, Google News with the search words for the female name they used for their Prime Minister and NSC's Donilon go on for page after page after page. I do think they have been insulted. It shows there is no quality control in the US foreign policy mechanism, and they are also (again) slighting US allies. Jackwagons.
It shows why happens when you have a bunch of 30 something “intellectual” staffer tools running the show instead of people that actually understand Japanese. My daughter is 8, understands Japanese marginally, but still laughed her ass off at this mistake.
We’ve never had a President this amateur and I’d hate to think what would happen in the event of an actual crisis.