President Barack Obama eats green tea ice cream as he visits the Great Buddha of Kamakura with Michiko Sato, temple director, and Takao Sato, the 15th chief monk of the temple, at Kotokuin Temple in Kamakura, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010. Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP
That is exacty it.
The Obama -chan treatment.
President of the USA treated as a child. The Japanese have Obama accurately pegged.
KUDOS to them!!!They are so good at pulling such a thing off.It also shows that the Obama staff is extremely uninformed on the nuances of Japanese culture.
His tie is off and his shirt is unbuttoned. Looking closer, the jacket and pants aren’t a matched set because the jacket is darker than the pants.