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[BREAKING] JAPAN MAINSTREAM "NIKKEI" NEWS CALLS OBAMA CANCELLING ASIA TRIP (VIA TWITTER) "INSULTING"
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo (Original in Japanese) ^ | 14 March 2010 | AmericanInTokyo

Posted on 03/13/2010 8:36:15 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo

The Japanese daily equivalent to the American "Wall Street Journal", the "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" (or "Nikkei" for short) has run a Japanaese language story just now reporting the slamming that Obama and Gibbs are getting for not only cancelling the Obama Asian trip, but in the rather crass, cavalier, informal and rude way it was apparantly gingerly announced (by Gibbs apparantly) through "Twitter".

Alludes in Japanese that this is insulting in an Asian context.

Original article (link provided to Japanese) is: 米大統領のアジア歴訪延期、「ツイッター発表」で波紋

Or my translation: "Obama's Asian Trip Postponement; (White House) Announcement Via 'Twitter' Causes Waves"


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amateurs; asia; bho44; bhoasia; bhovisit; gibbs; healthcare; japan; nationalsecurityfail; obama; obamacare; snub; socialism; socialisthealthcare; tokyo; twitter
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To: ken5050; McGruff

Me too,

Il Douche


141 posted on 03/14/2010 7:10:50 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"You see, the fundamental thing about human nature, and particularly in Asia, WEAKNESS INVITES DISDAIN AND LACK OF RESPECT. Obama is proving to be good at this."

Those sneakers in the pic of 0bambi from Indonesia...the four corners...

I guess they are asking for shoes to be thrown...

...at the next state of the (dis)union address...?

142 posted on 03/14/2010 10:27:13 AM PDT by spokeshave (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
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To: spokeshave

Yeah that waste of shoe wear when that Iraqi dude throw shoe at Bush 43 how about waiting for Obama coming to Iraq work on his target LOL!


143 posted on 03/14/2010 11:44:35 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: AmericanInTokyo; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; ...
Your posts from Japan are always interesting, AmericanInTokyo! This is yet another one... thank you.

FRiends: Don't miss AmericanInTokyo's post #1 on this thread. (Sorry I'm a day late with this one)

144 posted on 03/14/2010 2:57:29 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We have to pass the bill first so you can find out what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi, March 2010)
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To: fatnotlazy

bump


145 posted on 03/14/2010 3:05:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Obama’s Outstanding Record of Dip-lunacy [several headlines and links]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2470815/posts?page=3

Venezuela’s Chavez ‘Still’ Smells Sulfur After Obama Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410487/posts

Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470378/posts


146 posted on 03/14/2010 3:07:54 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
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To: nutmeg

You guys are great. I am as much a fan of youse guys, as you are of me. Thanks. This is a team effort. We ferret out, produce and then viralize some of the most interesting bits and pieces of news out of Asia that goes right back in the faces of the elitists in Washington D.C. I love it.


147 posted on 03/14/2010 5:46:30 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Its time to CLEARLY threaten a huge, middle-class American TAX REVOLT in Tea Party signs & placards)
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To: Taxman

I got it Taxman-san!


148 posted on 03/14/2010 5:47:02 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Its time to CLEARLY threaten a huge, middle-class American TAX REVOLT in Tea Party signs & placards)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; AmericanInTokyo; dixiechick2000; Lady Jag; Everybody; ...


149 posted on 03/14/2010 5:58:05 PM PDT by potlatch (- What a co-inky-stink!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
He TWITTERED his change in plans instead of having the ambassador to Japan personally deliver his change of itinerary? Jeez, I am an ignorant gaijin and even I know how insulting this is. It is worse than sending the Queen of England DVD’s as a present.

What if Obama's NOT supid - what if he's intentionally insulting our friends?

150 posted on 03/14/2010 6:41:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: nutmeg; AmericanInTokyo

Yes, it is insulting, but in a way it is good that everyone can see the real Obama more clearly.


151 posted on 03/14/2010 7:37:29 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: GOPJ

It very well may be intentional. But the insult will be taken as being personally from him not from the US. I see this as a way to curry favor with the nations that hate the US.


152 posted on 03/14/2010 8:03:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


153 posted on 03/14/2010 9:19:54 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: AmericanInTokyo
You guys are great. I am as much a fan of youse guys, as you are of me. Thanks. This is a team effort. We ferret out, produce and then viralize some of the most interesting bits and pieces of news out of Asia that goes right back in the faces of the elitists in Washington D.C. I love it.

And we love it, too, AIT! Thanks again for your great work. :-)

154 posted on 03/14/2010 11:29:24 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We have to pass the bill first so you can find out what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi, March 2010)
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To: potlatch

Morning BUMP!!!!


155 posted on 03/15/2010 5:31:57 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The straw has broken the camel's back.)
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To: GOPJ

Thanks GOPJ for joining the fun here on this thread.


156 posted on 03/15/2010 5:32:18 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The straw has broken the camel's back.)
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To: nutmeg

you guys are waaaaay too generous. a LOT of thanks goes around the whole wide world when it comes to Free Republic diggin out the stories, and making them go viral, MUCH TO THE CONSTERNATION OF THE GOVERNMENT RUN US MEDIA COMPLEX which never had this kind of rebellious opposition in it’s history of elitism and control. ;-) LOL!


157 posted on 03/15/2010 5:34:01 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The straw has broken the camel's back.)
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To: nutmeg; AmericanInTokyo

Ditto what she said.....


158 posted on 03/15/2010 5:38:29 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Thanks for this, American in Tokyo.

Yikes, what an underperforming affirmative-action trainee we have in the White House...

159 posted on 03/15/2010 7:11:19 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("When you're hot, you're hot / And when you're not, you're not." Buster Poindexter and the Banshees)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Amazing, isnt it?


160 posted on 03/15/2010 8:11:50 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The straw has broken the camel's back.)
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