‘Fukushima Effect’ helps Japan goalie
French public TV commentator, Laurent Ruquier, has got the Japanese all in a tither about his lame joke referring to the ‘Fukushima Effect’ on Japan’s goalie…
French source
French TV Host Riles Japan With ‘Fukushima’ Comment About Goalie
e.nikkei.com (Kyodo) | Oct. 16, 2012 | PARIS —A French television host has riled Japan by showing a composite picture of Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima with four arms and citing the “Fukushima effect” when praising him for his performance in Japan’s defeat of France in a soccer friendly.
The Japanese Embassy in France is planning to lodge a protest with the national television station France 2…more…
The reason the Japanese are so touchy about the “Fukuishima Effect” joke is their own virulent discrimination against even unaffected survivors atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Called the hibakusha (”explosion-covered people”), people who were exposed to radiation from the bombings are severely discriminated against and any possible exposure (not matter how small) is believed to be a hereditary or even contagious illness. Refer to: wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha#Discrimination
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October 16th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Nice diplomacy, Frog.
Ironically, this goalie was the sook who cried when the Belgians teased him, too….
October 16th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Ruquier is an humorist…
and not exactly a newcomer…
go ahead… protest…
Just hope he don’t make public apologies…
they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke…
October 16th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
WOTS a “Sook”?
Oh, cool. :-D
urbandictionary.com…Sook