[AmericanInTokyo]

(Free Republic Translation to English):

"Washington, D.C. (Kyodo News)

The US White House announced on July 26th the Japan visit of its National Security Advisor Mr. Thomas Donilon. However they made the mistake of calling the Japanese Prime Minister "Yoshiko" (female name) Noda.

This follows on the heels of Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell having to apologize to Japan just this last October on the occasion of the official state visit by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to Washington, D.C., because he referred to him as "Foreign Minister Noda" rather than "Prime Minister Noda". The Foreign Minister of Japan is Mr. Koichi Gemba, But they mixed up the two."

【ワシントン共同】ドニロン米大統領補佐官（国家安全保障問題担当）の訪日結果を２６日発表したホワイトハウスが、会談相手の野田佳彦首相の名前を「野田ヨシコ首相」と誤って表記した。

　昨年１０月にはキャンベル国務次官補（東アジア・太平洋担当）が「野田外相」の訪米を招請すると発言し、野田首相と玄葉光一郎外相の名前を混同したとして謝罪している。

　

[AmericanInTokyo]

Morning PING!! Ohayo gozaimasu.

You can't make this idiotic stuff up.

[Brad from Tennessee]

You have to go back to the Carter Administration to find this kind of incompetence. While visiting Mexico Carter told a stunned audience that he had contracted “Montezuma’s revenge.” On a trip to Poland Carter's inept translator told a crowd that Carter had left the U.S. for good and that Carter had “great lust” for the Polish people.

[Huaynero]

*#$%!, or as Casey might have said; doesn’t anyone in this game know how to speak Japanese...would you believe READ?

[Izzy Dunne]

I could easily make such a mistake.

The solution?

DON’T USE ME IN THE WHITE HOUSE DIPLOMATIC CORPSE !

[1010RD]

What’s the Japaneses’ opinion of the cable show Whale Wars?

[DTogo]

Actual name: Yoshihiko Noda

Flubbed name: Yoshiko Noda

Tom Donilon Would Be A 'Disaster' As National Security Adviser, Robert Gates Reportedly Said

日本　ピング　 (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)