"Obama Agenda For "Change" Delivered Strong Slap To The Face" (From Japan) My Translation

Hokkaido Shimbun, Japan (Original in Japanese, "FReepranslated" ^ | 4 November 2010 | Hokkaido Shimbun (Daily), from Japan

[AmericanInTokyo]

Japanese news today over here (newspapers above the fold, magazines, non-stop TV networks) are filled to the brim with news of Mr. Obama's humiliating defeat at the hands of the Republicans.

Many of this is bringing Japanese up to speed as to how unpopular Mr. Obama really is, as for the last two years by and large they perpetuated the image of him being successful and popular (mostly in order to sell books and English instruction tapes using his speeches). What a rude awakening.

Well, my favorite title is from this morning's Hokkaido Shimbun:

Essentially: "Obama Agenda For "Change" Delivered Strong Slap To The Face" Here is the LINK to the original Japanese article.

[tapatio]

Obama Agenda For "Change" Delivered Strong Slap To The Face" (From Japan) My Translation Obama Agenda for Change given a swift kick in the butt....MY translation! LOL!

Thanks for the laugh!

[struggle]

So do you live in Tokyo or Hokkaido?

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[Bean Counter]

[Bhoy]

As always thanks for post. Very interesting. Hope you get some news about Japanese reporting of visit to India: cost, number of people, etc.

Thanks again.

[AmericanInTokyo]

As the FR moniker reads, FRiend.

[AmericanInTokyo]

LOL!!! JUST GREAT!!! ;-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Indian news media is already full of that, and even more reporting on such Government Waste in the India Trip, that CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBC will not do about that, while Obama is in India, will in fact come through unfiltered in the Indian media. Many of us here will post such media in the next few days, to humiliate this guy even further on the global stage and tell the truth back home to the PEOPLE.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Wow, AIT. If I’m not mistaken......in the culture over there.....that’s pretty strong language, amirite? ‘Slap to the face’???? Yeeeeaaaoooooowch! Correct me if I’m wrong.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Translator’s prerogative, but it comes out to that kind of phrase, otherwise “electrifying, painful stun”, the more direct translation.

[dr_lew]

オバマ氏の変革に痛撃

First 3 characters are katakana O BA MA, a natural for Japanese, オバマ

Next is an honorific version of Mister, 氏

Then is the particle NO, の, which always stands out. It announces the following as pertaining or belonging to Mr Obama.

These mean "revolution", or "reformation" , 変革

Then the particle NI, に, meaning to or at the preceding.

Then finally a "severe blow", 痛撃

so going back to front, "Severe blow to revolution of the Honorable Mister Obama"

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Ouch!

[Chode]

works every time...

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good student! ;-)

御疲れ様でした!

[Hoodat]

[GeronL]

I am not going to ask what those products are supposed to be.

shudder

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

[Cobra64]

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[unkus]

Thank you very much, AmericanInTokyo.

[AmericanInTokyo]

suppositories for donkeys /just kiddin

[luvie]

:D