Australian TV: “Japs Are Cannibals Who Eat Anything!”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 11, 2009 12:29 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Food, Mass Media, Politics, TV, Video Gallery, Whaling
A recent comedy broadcast on Australian TV has attracted outrage in Japan for its crude anti-whaling histrionics, accusing the Japanese of being a barbarous race who will happily eat the flesh of Pandas, Koalas, and even humans.
The show in question, ABC’s “The Chaser’s War on Everything”, is a well known and popular Australian satirical production, but a number of its stunts have been harshly criticised by Australian media for being extraordinarily tasteless (though it has also been hailed as a beacon of Australian humour, which perhaps explains much).
Japanese viewers are understandably disgusted at the programme, which attempts to portray the Japanese as a race of savages who will eat anything, thus explaining their unbelievable barbarism in persisting in eating whale meat.
The video can be seen below – for those not interested in viewing it, it simply shows passersby in a Japanese city being offered free samples of various meats, and then being tricked into thinking they have eaten Panda or Human or similar, all in English for the benefit of viewers:
The tasting is obviously a contrived and selectively edited fabrication, the sort of thing TV the world over is notorious for.
It would be as ludicrous a slander to suggest the Japanese are latent cannibals as it would be to suggest Australians are a nation of congenitally deviant criminals, and it is about as valid to criticise Japanese cuisine for including occasional whale meat as it is to criticise Australian cuisine for including anything which crawls through the outback as part of “bush tucker,” with kangaroo, camel, emu and a variety of insects on the menu in many speciality restaurants.
More noteworthy to many than the tired issue of Japan’s implacable whaling lobby is perhaps the acceptance of crass anti-Japanese sentiment it represents, whether intended in a spirit of levity or otherwise – it is difficult to imagine the same programme daring to venture criticism of Islam or similar on such an extreme level, yet it seems in the case of Japan it is acceptable…
Naturally, 2ch and Nico are outraged:
“Madness.”
“The Australoreans talk big for such a weak little country” [オーストコリア / Austrokorea is a favoured insult on 2ch due to the perception that there is an influential Korean minority in Australia]
“As expected of a nation of convicts.”
“Because Japanese eat whale they think we’ll eat anything. Despite the fact we’re not Chinese…”
“They’re a race of degenerates, it can’t be helped.”
“They are about on the same level as Koreans.”
“It would be better to make a show where they take Australians to Korea to eat dog, and to China to eat cat…”
“They’re so crude I laughed…”
“Whale bacon is seriously tasty – try it!”
“It’s the worst country in the English speaking world.”
“They’re just looking to sell more Aussie beef!”
“Where on earth can you buy Panda meat anyway?”
“After Aboriginals come the Japanese?”
“Complain to their embassy.”
“Come to think of it, the one who wrote the Mainichi WaiWai was Australian too…”
“Racism? Japanese are less than people, so this isn’t racism, apparently…”
“China probably made them do it…”
“Of course, Japanese TV is well known for its sophistication, isn’t it?”
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Japanese are known for hating us all gaijins, so what's the big deal about this?
I'm having a hard time naming a country that *isn't* xenophobic, to some degree. Maybe some island nation in Micronesia? Then again, they might harbor a bit of suspicion toward white folk after a history of colonization and exploitation.
Tbh, the closest you would get to would be the UK - if only due to the fact that there are very few pure brits due to Global Expansion and the (stupid at times) immigration laws.
That and the fact more than 30% of the population are foreigners registered to like here , 60% have some foreign blood (be it 2-4 generations back).
It really shows when less than 15% is actually fully british.
Sweden
Fakely subbed... =.=;
how cruel they does such insult on Japan!
It's unforgivable...to simply insult other countries....
lolwut?
Japanese aren't ya?
I think some people have a misunderstanding. The Chasers are just "interested in seeing how the Japanese react when they see meals created from animals they regard as special". So this really has nothing to do with mistaking the Japanese as the chinese, it all leads back to whale hunting. And the cannbibalism was just a bad joke, they're probably just saying how sumos look unique(in a cute way) that they can be seen as different.
I don't quite understand why people are saying Australia is like Korea, when the Japanese who are raging about this are acting just like the Koreans who raged over Hetalia.
EXACTLY.
It's like Artefact took some time off his busy schedule of fapping to lolis, screencapping Queen's Blade episodes and polishing Japan's dick to see that, O NOES SOMEONE INSULTED JAPAN, HOWEVER SLIGHTLY, THIS IS NEWS-WORTHY! I'm wondering if Artefact even WATCHED this (probably just reading all the retarded comments about it first) before he made the 'AUSTRALIAN TV THINGS JAPANESE ARE CANNIBALS" headline. Where in the video does it even suggest this? They're presenting the koala, panda and sumo as AUSTRALIAN dishes, as satire, so its like they're saying "australians eat anything' to see how the japanese react. It's just harmless fun, and personally I thought it was funny.
What's far, far funnier, however ,is the total butthurt tone Artefact has in this article. I can totally imagine him furiously typing this with this RAGE face that someone would dare, DARE to satirise his precious, precious Japan. I'm guessing the subs are incorrect because otherwise the 2chaners/Nicoers wouldnt have reacted so retardedly. Unless they havent heard of satire in Japan, although I doubt they havent because you could tell some of the japanese people in the video certainly took the joke (and even went along with it, like the awesome woman with the sumo)
Of course, had this been a japanese program, I'm sure Artefact would think it was the best thing ever.
A lot of whining Australians in here today. To be expected I suppose...
Funny that you assume people are Australian just because they recognize your butthurtedness, Artefact.
What else can you expect from a nation entirely peopled with criminals? People who are used to having others not trust them.
I am getting a little sick of saying this but only the first fleet were Convicts. And many of then were serving a 7 year sentence for steeling a loaf of bread or something petty like that. After the first fleet normal people came to Australia to take their chances in a new country.. Much like the early colinisation of America. Please research an oppinion like that before you make wild accusations like that
Calm down weeaboo fgts. I'm sure Japan does the same to other countries as well.
“Because Japanese eat whale they think we’ll eat anything. Despite the fact we’re not Chinese…”
-_- I hope to god the poster intended the irony here...
This was so funny and obviously a joke. I'm gonna get some sushi now, and hope they have fresh Aussie meat on the menu.
Am I the only one disturbed by the OP?
The Chaser’s War on Everything, is just a bunch of dick that just piss people of for shit and giggles...
well it worked LOL
I just eat lolis vaginas. THANK YOU!
Screw You! Australia is awesome >:( not every one is a convict, plus how can Australia be racist when its a multicultural country.
See the United States of America for a good example of how.
IT"S TEH FUKING CHINESE WHO EATS ANYTHING!!!
THEY EAT THINGS LIKE STARFISH SCORPION LIZARDS CHICKEN"S SPARE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES SQUID BEAK BRICKS CEMENT CONCRETE TOILET PAPER CERAMICS SHARK FINS WHALE DICKS DOLPHINS ROACHES ANYTHING!!!!!!111!11!one11!!! YOU NAME IT THEY EAT IT!!
Cut down on the drugs, crackhead.
God these guys are annoying, they're not even funny. Their show is stupidly scripted and they try too hard. Their "controversy" isn't even funny anymore.
Group of wankers really.
NOM NOM NOM
Panda Burgers :>
My good Panda friend, why would you cannibalize yourself?:<
Step away from the panda!
They did the same exact thing to Australians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhRq6bY3Zv8
Jesus christ you Wap douches have to go lighten up. Japan has some serious problems with it, which does not stop you or anyone from enjoy the aspects of the culture you like. Just because anime is fun doesn't mean the Japanese people are perfect in every way.
i was hatin on australia when i read part of the summary but the vid is fucking funny so n worries but i think japan can fuck australia up
no they won't.
Say No To Racism
These,guys,are,funny.
Though,some,of,their,stunts,are,a,bit,over,the,top.
like,the,apec,stunt,they,pulled.
For those 'not in the know', these are the same people who made the 'all americans are stupid' video which is pretty popular on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Yes and that skit was funny too. They also invaides the APEC thing in Sydney dressed as secret service policemen and osama binladin. Now that was a national embarassment.. But funny.. $160 million in secutiry and they got in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvH3YQGQwLM
I have to disagree with the contention that whale and kangaroo consumption share equal moral footing. I think if you asked the average person which is worse, their initial reaction would be that both are pretty weird, but that eating whale is a bit more iffy.
I think one reason that this "skit" has provoked such (legitimate) outrage is that Japan actually DOES have a tragic episode in their history involving cannibalism (WWII). I imagine that's something that people don't like to be reminded of, and it's in extremely poor taste to stage something like this.
im australian. and for a FACT chasers is not a beacon of australian comedy. chasers can suck my dick and die. seriously though they suck
Hahaha, Chaser's War On Everything is great.
lol australia
Taking a show based on satire seriously, go Japan lol.
Quite a few butthurt weeaboos here. I had a good laugh reading their comments. I also like how they're quick to bash other Asian countries. Nippon banzai!
Well japanese makes fun of koreans >:O it is fine like this isnt it
The clip was very funny. I really do not understand the uproar. :)
the chasers are just running out of idea's after they did the security breech at that huge world government meeting after that their out of idea's its really sad :S
It's actually pretty funny. But people can't just take jokes, they're taking it too serious. Jeez
Do not feed the troll.
It's just a comedy and hidecam tv show... what's the deal?
The big deal is they ate the boobie lady 0-0
some aussies love the Japanese :D
They did make fun of Muslims in this week's episode, actually. It's not called the Chaser's War on Everything for nothing.
I guess you can draw whatever implications you like from the stunt! They offered this stuff to passersby (it was pretty obvious what it was), they chose whether or not to eat it. The point was to humorously raise awareness of, and protest against whaling.
I would think the blatant anti-Korean racism in those comments you quoted is quite a lot worse than anything the Chaser's done.
Whaling = genocide.
You are all foolish for not understanding as to why to Australians would be making such a show ... which is not edited to show fakery, by the way--that is very real, from much experience with video editing my self. The Japanese ate soldiers during World War II, at every battle. The Japanese are, historically, cannibals. The samurai were cannibals. The practice of eating off of a nude woman is symbolic of eating that woman, as women supposedly taste better than men. Stop calling all of these politically correct "internets" slanders and open your mind and eyes to the truth about the world. Island peoples are not the only cannibals. Really, Scottish were head hunting until the eighteenth century.
this show was met to take the piss out of anything it could. it is in no way the voice of Australia, after watching it for a wile you will see that this show offends anyone without exception its really funny as hell if you don't take it to serous.
WHALING IS AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW!
Apparently it is racist to point this out.
Does not offend me.
Though, we really don't need MORE foreigners making us look like jerks.
They'll take it out even hard on people like me when I go there.:(
Jeez, I don't even get how that was racist - it was just satirising the Japanese whaling industry.
Satire is supposed to make fun of social attitudes, industries, government, etc - just because this time they were making fun of something that's Japanese, they're suddenly racist? They do this sort of thing about Australian social attitudes/industries/govt all the time - it's practically their entire shtick!
Some people really can't take a joke. This article really says more about this site's thin-skinned oversensitivity than anything else.
I seriously do not know how you construed "Japanese are cannibals" from that humorous segment. I would not say that is racist at all..it is called satire. Learn to live with it.
lol funny as hell! they like to kill and eat whales so can other nations kill pandas and etc. I just dont agree with ppl or killing any animal 4 that matter
I found the video hilarious if offensive people are just too thin skinned these days.
As for whaling well most species are critically threatened and fill important biological niches so it's probably best to not be hunting them.
All kinds of bad stuff would happen to the fish stocks if there were no sperm whales for example.
Giving up eating whales would be a small price to pay to shut the racists up.
the french eat snails, the chinese eat snakes, some tribe in africa eats scorpions, so what >.< if you dont like eating living things then dont eat anything, just go die and get recycled for the benefit of the world
Sneering that the Japanese are cannibals? Despicable!!
Some of my best friends are cannibals.
The acceptance of the crass anti-Cannibalism sentiment this represents, whether intended in a spirit of levity or otherwise, makes me sick to my stomach. Because this was broadcast by one Australian network, all Australians should be brutally murdered.
Japanese people are offended? Your cute since I speak Japanese it was interesting to find how much I was insulted while visiting Japan. Pro tip insulting someone to their face when you don't know if they can speak your language or not is far from smart and is liable to result in you getting kerb stomped.
But the amount of racist shit you have on Television is simply hilarious so in my frank Opinion I have a simple solution which will satisfy everyone.
Everyone In Japan can go get a mug, pour in some concrete mix, add water, stir well, drink
AND HARDEN THE FUCK UP.
“They are about on the same level as Koreans.”
Wow, hypocrisy much?
Even though I'm usually on Japan's side, this report is biased as fuck.
The Chasers have insulted Islam before, and Judaism, Christianity, America, Australia (A LOT) and just about everything else under the sun, including children dying of cancer. So yeah, that just about sums up Australian humor, though we'd have you believe otherwise.
I notice that there are a lot of stupid Japanese comments, they never do there research.
guess. Whats with the racism towards korean and china? I can see why they're hating Australia (Australian humour IS fairly crude and hard to get used to), but why bring other countries into it? ==;;
got no idea why they say that
Isn't Chaser supposed to be satirical?
Welp, I don't like cannibalism but the girl serving as topic poster is hot.
What series/product/art set is she from please?
1) when was the last time a 2chan poster actually went outside - ignore the NEETs..
2) whoever said we're american wanna-be's.. die twice asshole, we hate america as much as everyone else
3) kangaroo is a helluva lot more healthy an option than whale (emu is too fatty, we feed that to our dogs, makes their coats shine)
4) someone was avoiding australia becuse of the funnel web.. dude, seriously.. that's not the worst of it
5) the whole convict thing, been done to death.. and point of fact, the US was a penal colony as well, they fought a war, we had a coup (the Rum Rebellion, look it up)
there's probably more to be said, but meh.. too much trouble
This must be for the ownage they received from Japan during WWII... I just heard China became Australia's largest trading nation. Australia just receives one master after another.
I would rather be in a nation that eats whales and is open-minded/makes hentai and DFC loli doujinshi, than a country that makes crap remarks and bans the latter...
Fark me. What a cry over nothing, the Chaser just hang shit on everything, Australia included. Didn't see this much of a cry when South Park did an episode on Japanese whaling. Get a sense of humor
People are far too sensitive now days; you can't say anything that might offend anyone without setting off some kind of international crisis or starting a war. People need to take themselves, their religion and their culture far less seriously. I mean, what ever happened to freedom of speech? Or just getting over it?
If everybody lightened up and learned to laugh at themselves as well as others, the world would be a much better place--Well, a far happier place at least.
No one is special, nothing is scared. Learn to laugh or GTFO.
The problem here is "laugh at themselves" does not equate with "letting others laugh at them".
So you GTFO.
WTF
influential Korean minority my butt. Koreans don't exist in australia coz they think that all asians are chinese.
Yeah, that's pretty much right.
the dude is lucky he still got his head on, that guy brag bout japs sumos ? some racist aus.....
Australia is just as guilty as America for the crap their media can spew.
Also, Australians take a lot of pride in the quality of their meat products. An offensive (yet undeniably true) steriotype of Americans is that we have really low quality meat. That being said, a prejudiced statement over the culinary oddities of Japanese cooking makes some sense.
Super unbiased anon, out.
unbiased my ass.
lol wtf they japanese get hated on because they whale wow~
aussies eat emus? kangaroos? last time i heard they are not an endangered species.
lol to each their own i guess but when whales become extinct we know who to blame.
Bahaha being from Australia myself i find chaser's war on everything hilarious - and if u take anything they do seriously u are an idiot... well i guess that may be a bit harsh, their sense of humor could easily be misunderstood, especially by another culture. But i can guarantee their intention was not to offend japan. They have done countless scenes on the show about different cultures (as well as general Australian culture of course) and many of them could be taken the wrong way, but their intention is usually to point out ignorance in regards to other cultures through satirical means - satire is one of the most often misunderstood forms of comedy so i guess that offending people is something they are willing to risk to make a great show! But chill the fuck out man... Australians love to make fun of their own culture more than anyone else's ok? Except maybe New Zealand (bloody sheep fuckers hahahhaha- kidding)
PS. I love Japan.
I find it sad how some people persecute a whole group because they dont like something done by a small part of that group.
"Oh I hate the Aussies because they made fun of the Japanese"
"Oh I hate the Japanese because they eat whale"
Hasn't anime taught you anything?
(Hmmm that makes me think I shouldn't hate all feminists)
LOL~! I bet them Aussie eat kangaroo and think that the north is the same as the south....
ummm... yes we eat kangeroo, in fact kangeroo numbers across the country are booming...
so we gotta eat
btw australia is one of the most intelligent countries in the world...
enigmatic moondoggie if your country was smart...
u'd have the brain to figure that one out dumbshit
and if ur american, go take a fucking look at ur stupid president bush and he stuffed up the economy...
btw anyone interested in the chasers should watch their eps THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS
BTW UR GONNA NEED TO LEARN SOME AUSSIE INFO LIKE PM AND CURRENT NEWS TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THEIR SKITS
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser
this is quite funny, i think
fuck those australians!
HOLY POOP JAPAN DOEES NOT UNDERSTAND HUMOR
Calm down a bit! It was all done as fun, that's pretty simple to see.
However... some of those things they said were very offensive.
Dammn japs can't take a joke!
(Aussie reporting in)
lol about the 2chan china / chinese comment
As an Icelander I am very angered and disturbed that we weren't mentioned, as we kill lots of the tasty whales too
I mean just Norway... arrgghhrrr
I always wanted to taste human ever since I saw something about cannibals on the discovery channel.
“It’s the worst country in the English speaking world.”
I'd have a hard time deciding between Australia, the UK and New Zealand...
ouch...
Turn about is fair play haha.
Damn, that one girl was awesome.
"How old do you think they should be when we kill them?"
"Maybe in their 30s?"
I lol'd my ass off. Her sense of humor must know no bounds...
Japan has no sense of humour confirmed.
Everytime I see an article here, I seem to care less and less about the japanese people.
Even though I'm australian I couldn't really say I'm that in touch with the people, a lot of australians seem very arrogant for whatever reason, so I usually avoid them.
But this is rich coming from a place who hates everyone else, I can't tell you how many times I've seen this comment when trying to insult australia.
“As expected of a nation of convicts.”
This retard clearly doesn't know that Australia has WAY more foreigners(a word japan wouldn't know a whole lot about except to hate) who fled from their country looking for a better life.
I'm trying really hard not to insult japan but the more I disconnect anime and related from japan, the less and less I'm liking about them.
Anyone care to fill me in on 2chan? From what I know, and please correct me if I'm wrong, 2chan is the original which 4chan came from, 2chan is basically a japanese version of what 4chan is, but I'm curious if 2chan is better? I've seen non-stop stupidity at 4chan since I can read it, please tell me 2chan is better? v.v
Anime and related aside I'm really having a hard time finding reasons to like the japanese, of course i'm sure their not all the same, but it seems an overpowering majority are racist or Xenophobia might be a more appropriate word.
Hey retard, you stop liking Japan cuz you lost interest in anime ? thats rich !!
if japan = anime, then australia = idiots who try to compare themselves to the US.
Australians are the rudest piece of crap i've ever met in this world and i've been to alot of other countries for various purposes. Nobody like thems ! nor do anybody really want to give a crap about them.
“As expected of a nation of convicts.” <- totally true (especially those uneducated farmers and teenagers)
Maybe if you proposed a whitelist of acceptable nations to have favorable preconceptions of, we could shorten the superficial circle jerk of tribalism. Plus it is funnier when people have to make the case in favor of the inhabitants of a nation state in lieu of constructing contentless insults.
I never said I lost interest in anime did I? Did you know most people who like anime know nothing about japan? The only things I liked about japan were things that made it out, I'm trying to be open minded unlike anon scum like you.
People like you deserve to be grouped into one area and nuked over and over until every living organism that ever came from you, ceases to exist.
Australians can't be that rude since all the foreigners come here hmm? That and the US.
And since you're so educated on the world, tell me one difference between Australians and Americans? They both believe they live in the best country on earth, their almost all ignorant. If you hadn't noticed, Australia is a mini america, THIS is common knowledge.