When I showed the picture to my Japanese spouse, she winced in embarrassed pain.
It’s obviously not something that anyone considers to be very serious, but it does make Obama look like a complete and total rube.
Patting the Empress on the butt might have been worse, but only in a matter of degree. If he wasn’t the American President, I am sure he would be strongly discouraged from ever visiting Japan again.
I am sure he would be strongly discouraged from ever visiting Japan again.
It would be all right with me if they buried him up
to his neck and let total strangers passing by
saw at his neck with a piece of bamboo...