Japanese Government Honours Tearful Lady Gaga

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Lady Gaga has been given a thank-you letter by the Japanese government for a tearful address in which she insisted Japan is completely safe and that everyone should flock there.

In the wake of the Sendai disaster, Japan’s tourism has plummeted over 50% below the levels a year earlier, and the government is understandably keen to rectify matters.

To this end, it has enlisted the aid of Lady Gaga in restoring confidence in the viability of Japan as a tourist destination, stressing that only small parts of it are highly radioactive.

Lady Gaga herself arrived in Japan to participate in an MTV fundraising event, and is already said to have most generously donated millions of dollars of her own fortune to aid relief efforts.

Her initial appearance was as striking as ever:

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Lady Gaga’s unlimited enthusiasm for Tokyo is such that there may well be some suspicion as to whether she is thinking of the right city, and whether she is reading from a script given to her by the Japanese government:

“I am always so inspired when I come to Japan, inspired by the spirit, the passion, the love, the absolutely infectious joy of Tokyo.

[…]

I can’t say enough to people all over the world that the majority of Japan right now, Japan in general, is very safe. It’s fine to come here. It’s beautiful.

The most important thing, and the best thing, we could do for Japan right now is to boost tourism.

I would like to use my position here today and all week long to run around Tokyo enjoy the beautiful city and kiss all the beautiful little monsters and scream at the top of my lungs that everyone should come visit this beautiful place.”

Part of her speech:

An official from Japan’s tourism agency was on hand to give her an official letter of gratitude from the Japanese government for this performance – she played this down:

“I hope you all know all over Japan that I need no letter or present or gift from anyone. My devotion to the people of Japan comes from a selfless place. I love this country so much and I will cherish this letter forever in my heart.”

The USA’s ambassador to Japan is clear – only Lady Gaga can save Japan:

“This morning I had breakfast with some think tank experts, U.S.-Japan experts, who said to me, Mr. Ambassador, ‘What can we do in order to strengthen the strategic, economic and people to people relations between Japan and the United States?’ And I had one answer, Lady Gaga.”

Unfortunately, persuading people to visit a nation whose capital is only 250km away from the radioactive evacuation zone for the second worst nuclear disaster in history may prove too much even for an ephemeral celebrity like Lady Gaga.


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    Avatar of Pyrolight
    Comment by Pyrolight
    12:37 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Oh my god... kill it with fire.

    Comment by chihiro
    12:38 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Lady Gaga a man or women?

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    Comment by nocturne
    12:46 24/06/2011 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Lord Gogo.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:57 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    My god, it all makes sense now.

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    Comment by HouseLife
    13:10 24/06/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Oh my god... it's been a while since sheer brilliance, nostalgia, and a triple-level play on words has graced my eyes!

    *slow clap*

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    Comment by Diemeow23
    18:12 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Lady Gaga! Different and liking it!

    She's always been so popular in Japan and now she gives back (in Millions Arghh!)

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:14 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    perhaps you meant Goro from Mortal kombat..?

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:17 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Google "Golgo 13"

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    17:07 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Is he Woll Smoth's neighbour by any chance?

    Comment by MasterInfamous
    12:54 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's OK when it's in a three-way!

    14:07 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Helicopter dick.

    Comment by Anonymous
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    Comment by ranivus
    17:49 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    FACE DISFIGURE!! FACE DISFIGURE!!

    imo, i always thought she had a horseface

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:34 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    she is a pokemon just look at her she resembles a freaking JYNX!!

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    Comment by Kuro'Base'Neko
    18:11 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    She's the girl version of Marilyn Manson.

    Comment by Anonymous

    actually in my country she is called "Lady Gogu" meaning "Lady Dude"

    Comment by John Hayabusa
    12:39 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Did the government thank her because she is not a loli?

    If Japanese people want Lady Gaga, they better get rid of Ishihara first!

    Comment by Anonymous

    Fuck you and your unfunny jokes.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:37 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    hahaha someone has a crush on the man/whore

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:51 25/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    uuuh no? ishihara jokes just aren't funny. they're annoying as fuck.

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    Comment by The REAL Lamberto
    18:09 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Fucking Ishihara fanboy!

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:51 25/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    you got that backwards, buddy

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    Comment by The REAL Lamberto
    18:09 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Lady Gaga should hate the Japanese government.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:09 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    You know a fucker deserves a dildo up his ass when he includes that lame ass QBitch emo-ticon in his 1/2 weaboo username

    Comment by Anonymous

    aww you want to loan him yours?

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    Comment by PbjZ
    12:45 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Definitely not fond of Lady Gaga, and I think anime might be a stronger relation between Japan and the United States than her. But she tried to help so I guess that's fine.

    Comment by Anonymous

    she/he is just attention whoring , by jumping a bandwagon cause

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    Comment by HouseLife
    13:13 24/06/2011 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Honestly... that's petty and stupid. I don't care if anyone is doing it for bandwagon reasons. Millions of dollars toward a cause is more than our lazy asses will ever do no matter which way you look at it. So frankly, everyone here who bitches or throws an insult is nothing more than jealous no matter what justifications they come up with.

    She just gave more money to help the country whose culture we claim to love than we will have in most of our lifetimes.

    Gain some perspective for a moment once in a while.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:34 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    I couldn't have said it better than how HouseLife just did. People like the anon above him only give other people the incentive to do less good.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:34 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Where does it say she donated millions of dollars? Where??? Your a fucking idiot. Her words were nice yes but to say "Millions of dollars toward a cause ismore than our lazy asses will ever do no matter which way you look at it." is retarded.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:36 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    She joined the cause which already raised the millions of dollars. She is an attention whore. Period.

    Not to mention she is the fucking ugly as hell.

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    Comment by TFish
    13:37 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Agreed, but for the sake of argument...

    When you're a multimillionaire Pop sensation, a few million (tax deductible) dollars isn't as big a deal as one of us would think it was.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:40 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Stupid ass fucking Anon.

    She donated millions of dollars.
    It's in the fucking article. READ.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    13:45 24/06/2011 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Agreed who cares why as long as she is helping is all that matters.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Lady Gaga is an VD infected whore. Who the fuck wants that kind of money? It probably has fucking crabs all over it or something. It's like Brittney Spears endorsing a shampoo commercial. You faggots have to get your heads out and stop licking your own assholes for a minute to see this doesn't do SHIT for anyone.

    Lady Gaga certainly as hell isn't going to save japan, if anything they should be investing money in trying to negate radioactivity. I'm sure the scientists are trying to work on it, but they'll never get their pictures on any magazines or or anything. They'll probably just get blood disorders from stress and die of overwork.

    Fucking scumbag idiots, go back to jerking off while watching TMZ. No wonder why this world is so fucked up, you people are a waste of skin and flesh.

    Comment by Anonymous

    first of all you fucks ive donated two bags of red cells, bag of plasma for the red cross that was claiming to help japs . Second donation was freaking painful, i wasn’t it doing in hopes of boosting my popularity so my concerts would sell more either . Even if he is donating money he is donating money that he would be otherwise paying in tax money .

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    Comment by HouseLife

    Again, please gain some perspective. Who cares if it's tax deductible? Don't any of you realize that that exists as a reward for those who are well-off to give to those less-fortunate? An actual physical reward? What's the alternative, 'they should do it without the tax deduction?' That's nothing short of an idiocy in a system where it helps the giver too. Why? Why shouldn't they save money by giving money to a cause that needs it? Where's the problem, honestly? You think it's going to something more worthy otherwise?

    It's the poor and stupid who are the ones who feel that the ones who are rich because they have a skill, talent, ability, or service that is in demand are somehow evil or bad people. It's all mindless jealousy to feel better about the fact that you're nowhere close to as successful as those people. It's not her fault she's got cameras up her ass all day. Being aware of that helps considerably in not blaming them for things that aren't their fault. Look at Artefact and Aya Hirano. Most of the hate here is because of slow news days.

    Lady Gaga may be undesirable to us, but she can still sing better than anyone here who say she can't sing. So that gives them... oh yeah, no credibility at all. I've heard some of her songs. Like nearly every artist, some are great, most don't work for me.

    @ Anon 13:55
    Just because you gave blood and it hurt because whoever did it can't do their job right, you actually think you have some kind of self-righteous reason for denigrating a donation of millions? Are you actually sincerely trying to pit your measly couple donations of blood against an amount of money which could fund the purchase of hundreds of thousands of more 'donations' of that blood? I'm not trying to say overtly that one donation is better than another, but only an egotistical child would ever try and denigrate charity just because the person who donated has a face they don't like and they aren't a particular fan of their entertainment.

    And guess what. If this donation sells more tickets as you claim is somehow a bad thing, wouldn't you rather someone who earns millions from fans be the type of person who does in fact give back in some way? How exactly is that a problem? I dare you to try and justify that hatred intelligently.

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    Comment by Yamaken
    02:30 25/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wewh, Some of the anons here are pathetic.

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    Comment by TFish
    02:50 25/06/2011 # ! Good (+0.4)

    I don't think you understand perspective houselife. If you have 100 million dollars and you give away 10 million it's equal to someone that only has 10 dollars giving away 1. When you know full well that someone that only has 10 dollars to their name must really really care about whatever or whoever their giving a dollar to. The millionaire, possibly not so much.

    Also, when you're making millions and millions of dollars a year if you donate a million dollars you end up saving more money from tax deductions than you would have if you kept all your money.

    My point being I personally don't believe she did it for anything more than good publicity.

    Comment by Anonymous

    @HouseLife Wow, you really must be a faggot with a hardon for Lady Gaga, I think that you're so up her/his ass already it's not funny.

    I don't know but anyone else but I'm not envious of her "talent" I'm enraged by her lack of talent, IE her music is SHIT along with her so called "fashion sense". Then again anyone who parades around with a dress made out of meat must be so full of shit or high they don't know or don't expect their fans to know what they're symbolizing.

    Saying that Lady Gaga will save japan is the same way as saying Bono is going to bring Africa out from poverty, and we all know what happened with that. Why do we keep doing this? What a joke, and how pathetic. It's total nonsense to think that people will be able to save anything by just having their presence there, in fact her presence can actually HURT japan. A LOT of people HATE Lady Gaga and are stupefied at how people can buy into this shit after going through what happened with Brittney Spears, WTF is that? And you have the AUDACITY to say it's about jealous over talent and wits?

    This my friends is the average Lady Gaga fan, so stupid and in awe over the entertainment industry they can't even THINK on their own. To quote a manga character from yonder past: "People are so stupid they'd eat the fat off their own ass if somebody told them that it tasted good."

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:51 25/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    You really...really are a fucking idiot.

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    Comment by HouseLife
    19:54 25/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    @ Anon 5:16

    I'm not a fan of hers. Nor do I know which songs are hers half the time. You, on the other hand, made up half the things you claim I said in my post. So if you're the representation of the so-called 'non fans' then you seem to be an idiot.

    I don't care how she dresses. It's supposedly meant to give a reaction that you're giving now. Confusion and thought. She's apparently said she does it to elicit a reaction. It worked. You are exactly who she does it for. Mindless cretins who don't know how to think.

    You are one of those people who believes that anyone who has the nerve to speak logically about something you mindlessly hate must of course be a rabid fan of theirs, right? Because that's the only way that you could ever say something unintelligent, if the other person doesn't know how to think.

    The reality is you're a childish, mindless fool who is just as much pulled into that woman's act as any of her fans. Your hatred for her is the exact same as the love those fans feel for her. But of course, you haven't got the mental faculties to understand that.

    And lest we forget, I only spoke of her donations for the cause of helping Japan. That's all I cared about, and hope she makes millions more so she can continue to donate to worthy causes. Meat dress or otherwise.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:05 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    lastly fuck-bags never said i was against charity or self interest . But i see no problem of pointing out that there are many people who are doing what they can to help with their very limited resources without anonymously . Im disagreeing with a through behind the action , not the action itself.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:59 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Swearing off to other anons will not justify your argument. Also, Gaga didn't go to Japan to donate more money. She went there to increase the flow of tourism in Japan. Who gives a flying fuck if she's doing it to increase her popularity? She's fucking popular for half of the population. I don't see any ill side effects here, Mr Anon.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:44 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    'she' is popular for half of population ? no he's not . Second i dont see any scientific evidence supporting her claims , so there is a high chance she is lying .And she went to japan to increase tourism , if you want to see transvestites you go to Thailand , not japan . So fuck off .

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:57 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    also you know what is really stupid ? you retards buying her fake tears .

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    Comment by gundam4ever2
    12:45 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    I thought lady gaga was a bad looking tranny when I seen her picture.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:15 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    cool innovative comment bro

    You make anime fans look so sophisticated!

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:31 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    That coming from a dude hiding under an animu girl's face LOL

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:36 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    It takes effort such as this to stay classy.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:57 24/06/2011 # ! Good (+0.9)

    Its not bad.
    At least it wasn't some old geezers taking the opportunity to bash anime/manga while "helping" with some dubious donation.

    She wants to help? Thats perfectly fine.
    She is helping the right way? Yes.

    Why would you guys complain?

    She is ugly, yes, she sings horribly, yes, but she did things right, and you can't really disagree with that.

    Comment by Anonymous
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    Comment by dantesmaster
    13:05 24/06/2011 # ! Good (+0.4)

    gender no specified...

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:40 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Off topic: What happened to the Channel?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:36 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    What happened to the Channel x2?

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    Comment by Imyou
    13:08 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    Absolutely. I'm not a fan, but that's a matter of taste. I don't oppose her on ideology, and she's helping a cause I agree with, so great.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:43 24/06/2011 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    but she cosplayed Morrigan badly

    Comment by Dark Mage
    14:19 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    I thought she was cosplaying Bernkastel very badly.

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    Comment by Nindotaku
    15:05 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    is this what u meant?
    http://heysayanime.kokidokom.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/04-Witch-Meeting.jpg

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:30 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I thought she was cosplaying the Joker...

    Comment by Anonymous

    First and foremost, I dont mind anyone that wants to help japan...I tell everyone I know they should visit there at least once in there life.

    But lady gaga, please, she doesnt do anything with out an agenda, so trust her Ha. And when politicians use so called celbs, it a big fat FAIL.

    If you want to see japans beauty then go and see it, not cause some "my name is in lights" airhead tells you too.

    Comment by Anonymous

    First and foremost, I dont mind anyone that wants to help japan...I tell everyone I know they should visit there at least once in there life.

    But lady gaga, please, she doesnt do anything with out an agenda, so trust her Ha. And when politicians use so called celbs, it a big fat FAIL.

    If you want to see japans beauty then go and see it, not cause some "my name is in lights" airhead tells you too.

    Have a nice day

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:33 24/06/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

    You shouldn't misspell a word so close to an all caps FAIL. It's very glaring.

    "celEbs"







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