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"Obama Bow To Emperor Was Inappropriate" (This A.M.'s Japanese Press: My Translation)
47 News, (Japan) From Original Japanese from Kyodo ^ | 16 November 2009 | 47 News (Japan)

Posted on 11/15/2009 6:11:20 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo

Title in-full is: "Obama Bow To Emperor Inappropriate-- U.S. Conservative Faction Criticizes"(オバマ氏の天皇にお辞儀は不適切 米保守派が批判 (They are essentially saying that US Conservatives are asserting that. (But it is fairly widespread here as a perception, and growing, although to-date Japanese have been their typical polite goodselves in playing down the faux paus of an ignorant, visiting, protocol-devoid foreigner, in this case POTUS).

(http://www.47news.jp/CN/200911/CN2009111601000125.html)

Goes on to say that U.S. Conservative blogosphere, FOX News, etc. have picked up on the Obama bow as inappropriate. Also tied it into the earlier Obama bow/genuflection to Saudi Arabian King.

For your information.

It is actually from a Kyodo News report, which means it has now hit the Japanese news wires, big time. (...this is equivalent to AP carrying it in USA, Notimex in Latin America, German Press Agency in Germany, etc.).


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bow; japan; obama; obamabow; obamao; obowma
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Credit to potlatch and rosesofsharon


21 posted on 11/15/2009 6:24:01 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: frankenMonkey

LOL!


22 posted on 11/15/2009 6:24:48 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

23 posted on 11/15/2009 6:25:26 PM PST by narses ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.")
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I so appreciate your reports.


24 posted on 11/15/2009 6:28:48 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: frankenMonkey

Well, lets put it this way...America threw off its feudal roots of respecting those deemed higher than we on the social ladder; Japan still has it in someways, and they probably think the bow was quite low.

Any self respecting Japanese man will keep his torso locked at 45 degrees from standing straight.


25 posted on 11/15/2009 6:29:43 PM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: narses

Please stop spamming “non abortion/pro life issue* FR threads like that. Is your computer broken?


26 posted on 11/15/2009 6:30:19 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One American "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: netmilsmom

What’s interesting to me is that our daughter is working on a research paper on the Japanese Holocaust that occurred around 1935 and involved mass killing of Chinese by Japan. I had never heard of this. For all the bad I can say about public school education, our daughter is learning a whole lot of stuff that I never studied even in college. I thank George W. Bush for some of daughter’s educational opportunities because she wouldn’t be taking some of her classes were it not for Homeland Security grants. (your post made me think of Japanese and their views of other “orientals.”)


27 posted on 11/15/2009 6:30:29 PM PST by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I ‘bow’ upon the entrance and exit to my dojo, to my sinsei, and to my sparring opponent (partner) out of ‘respect’....as just a small ‘courtsey’ from the waist. Nothing more...nothing less.


28 posted on 11/15/2009 6:31:23 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: stubernx98

Agree, the Narcissist in Chief will make sure someone pays for this. He will lash out at the American People again, hard telling what his devious little mind will come up with.


29 posted on 11/15/2009 6:32:04 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

One of my pet peeves is when ignorant liberal Uber-honkies do that palms-pressed-together Thai bow thing for Japanese stuff —they think that bow is Japanese when it’s not.

I think maybe it was erroneously in Karate kid..?

I’m not a Mike Savage fun but he’s spot on when he describes this going on, usually at restaurants up in Marin (SF).

I really wish to God Obama had done THAT one, cuz liberals love it for some reason (they think it shows cultural sensitivity), and all Japanese can immediately identify it as a common mistake —I’ve only seen something **vaguely** like that prior to a Muay Thai even in Japan.


30 posted on 11/15/2009 6:32:09 PM PST by gaijin
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To: AmericanInTokyo
From all indications, he “freelanced” this one on the spot,

I think he did just that. As a guilt response to make up for the bow to the Saudi King.

31 posted on 11/15/2009 6:32:09 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: SunkenCiv; AmericanInTokyo

You people just don’t know when to quit. What if Obama is ill?

I think, from all the bowing he’s doing, he suffering from some terrible waisting disease.


32 posted on 11/15/2009 6:34:42 PM PST by bigheadfred (Maybe you caught this earlier?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Greeting the troops...they liked this one equally

33 posted on 11/15/2009 6:35:37 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Eye of Unk

He is still fairly popular and positive here in Japan—I do want to observe that—because the local low-brow media harps in his favor like they do in the USA (with some growing exceptions—particularly in high brow, academic or conservative monthlies and forums) so I want to be real careful, and to put this in context. Many Japanese, though, after one year, do not detect anything particular steller in the way of strength or accomplishments, although they will tell you he “gives a darned good speech” (or at least they are meant to felt that way through imagery and liberal media spin.)


34 posted on 11/15/2009 6:36:37 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One American "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

If this is in Japan and the faces are white, then it means, "I have NO IDEA about ANYTHING Japanese AT ALL" (this is a Thai gesture, although perhaps not exclusively..?)

35 posted on 11/15/2009 6:38:08 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Somebody did in fact bring up on a Japanese chat room last night something along those lines.


36 posted on 11/15/2009 6:38:33 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Major Hasan: One American "clinging to guns and religion" Obama couldn't have cared less about!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

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37 posted on 11/15/2009 6:41:35 PM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: gaijin
One of my pet peeves is when ignorant liberal Uber-honkies do that palms-pressed-together Thai bow thing for Japanese stuff —they think that bow is Japanese when it’s not.

It doesn't matter what you do as long as you feel good about yourself doing it.

38 posted on 11/15/2009 6:42:17 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (("To psychology! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems"))
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Thanks for this thread, one of the great things
about FR is first person reporting from
around the world.
I would not have had a problem with Obama giving a
respectful bow to Akihito, but this was ridiculous
and made everyone aware of his ineptitude.

During the warring period, such an over blown
gesture would have been taken as a insult
and blood would have been spilled.

Even a rank Fifth Kyu in Aikido would know better.


39 posted on 11/15/2009 6:42:22 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The temptation is to laugh at this buffoon, but the problem is, this buffoon represents our country. The world is laughing at him—and at the country as a whole. How humiliating.


40 posted on 11/15/2009 6:42:22 PM PST by MizSterious (Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
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