US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy’s efforts to improve US-Japanese relations by highlighting the evils of Japanese dolphin hunting already look to have made her the most unpopular ambassador in recent memory – and if her next threat “to discuss the comfort women issue” is carried out her place in history seems all but assured.
After the controversy her Taiji-bashing tweets provoked, her only response was to ignore it:
“These past few weeks, myself and the embassy have received lots of mail, tweets, and phone calls. I thought it was important to make US policy clear.”
She called the storm her comments created “healthy” – although seems to have been silent as to the accusations that her staff deleted all the English language criticism of her tweets whilst largely ignoring or being unable to identify the Japanese language complaints, and since then most of her tweets have been about the relatively safe topics of baseball and sumo
Meanwhile the governor of Wakayama prefecture has told her to keep her nose out:
“We take the lives of cows and pigs. Is it right to say we are only being cruel to dolphins?”
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“Culinary cultures differ. It is civilised wisdom to respect these differences.”
Kennedy’s appointment is increasingly starting to look as much like a deliberate effort to sabotage relations between the US and Japan as an effort to palm off a washed-up Democratic princess on an appreciative vassal – as Kennedy has now announced she plans to invite the Korean ambassador to her residence “to discuss the comfort women issue.”
Her antics seem not have made her many friends in Japan – though curiously she has earned a great deal of positive publicity with them outside Japan:
“She is the worst ambassador in history… go home!”
“What the hell is this woman doing sticking her nose into all these issues?”
“You’d think the US ambassador had better things to do that make policy on something like that.”
“Policy via tweets…”
“She is just the pawn of US lobbyists rather than an actual diplomat.”
“Go back to the US you dolphin loving old hag!”
“This woman just hates Japan.”
“You have to ask who is paying her to make such a mess…”
“I choose to believe she is just an idiot.”
“She must have been planted to worsen relations between Japan and the US for the benefit of American relations with China.”
“I support her. All the anti-American sentiment she is stirring up is perfect.”
“This racist biddy is still picking on Japan whilst ignoring what Alaskans do to seals I see.”
“She is useless. What does she hope to achieve by driving the US and Japan apart?”
“Healthy debate indeed. She had all the criticism deleted.”
“Why is she even discussing US dolphin policy? This is Japan, and they are Japanese dolphins.”
“As expected of princess America. America now makes national policy about what goes on in a single little Japanese cove, does it?”
“All that submarine sonar driving whales to beach themselves is totally humane of course.”
“She’s the American Hatoyama!”
“From her attitude she obviously just regards Japan as an American colony.”
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Japan has isolated themselves.
Better yet ,they should sink their islands into ocean like Atlantis and no one in East Asia will miss them
East Asia would be 1000 times better if America and Russia hadn't interfered. Asia would be so prosperous, it would be the world power, instead of the West. That's why Whitey had to check the yellow man's uprising.
Yeah, Asia would be so prosperous, with no one to stop Japan's genocidal expansionism... OH WAIT.
Japan's genocidal expansionism was so bad for Taiwan... Oh wait, Taiwan was the only modern and developed state in Asia aside from Japan itself for the longest period of time. Check the facts, nanking massacre is a myth larger than life. Asia would have prospered greatly under Japanese rule. Taiwan is proof enough of the fate that awaited the rest of Asia should Japan had succeeded.
So much butthurt in the past here. I see.
Big condolesence to all your deceased grandparents.
You DO realize that in order to be a world power, you have to interact with "Whitey" and the West...since the majority of the first world population live in the West.
The majority of the modern world is thanks to white people. If they left everyone alone, or didn't spread their science, technology and modern culture, Asians would still be living the same way they had been 300 years ago.
look at this guy acting like only white people knew of technology and science.
What have the Tampponese ever invented?
Tentacle-penis, ya know to over compensate for the limitations.
No, that's China with their fake airspace that's invading other nations' territory.
Cry sum moar
But Dolphin hunting IS barbaric.
Hunting a non-endangered species for food is a small unimportant issue compared to everything the US does to our planet.
list of examples of things U.S. has done to the planet the Japan and China has not done:
1)nothing
2)nothing
3)nothing
that is all
Killing cows and eating beef is sacrilegious and barbaric, you savage Westerner. India should file a formal outraged complaint against beef eating Westerners.
Killing any animal can be considered barbaric but the difference is here is at least with cows they are bred for that purpose so we are not destroying their population numbers where as the Japanese are just out right hunting the dolphins without letting their population replenish which is bad for the dolphins and selfish to the rest of the world.
What makes it barbaric, because they are cute? Meat is meat.
What makes human hunting and eating barbaric? Meat is meat.
it's barbaric to consider your culinary desires above the preservation of an endangered species.
Actually, it has been found that dolphin and whale meat contains very high quantities of mercury as mercury naturally seeps into the ocean in trace amounts and makes its way up the food chain.
Nothing natural about it, it comes from coal mining.
Last person to know it. She need to quit her job, if she is going to disrespect someone's culture. Japan might cut contact with the world, if she doesn't quit.
Gogogogo! doeet!
Fail
To say that killing dolphins IS barbaric is stupid
Killing is killing if you don't want that stop eating meat... and they will still kill them...
Just because someone think dolphins look cute doesn't make it any different from killing other animals...
just go and search in youtube.
The video the meat industry doesn't want you to see.
Well they are delicious so why not... right?
Killing Dolphins is barbaric simply because the animal's high intelligence. Even as a complete Japanophile, I can't deny this. They are as intelligent as great apes, and should be protected. I dare say many dolphins or as intelligent, or more intelligent than Blacks. It was Western tradition to enslave and exploit Blacks. Not every "tradition" should be defended.
As or more intelligent than blacks? Well at least you're aiming high for trolling with that one.
It's slightly better than bioweapon experiments conducted on live humans by Imperial Japan 50 years ago. See? Japs today are LESS barbaric.
I read blow weapons.
you mean live human dissection yeah I heard of it and here's the website so brutal GURU it was done on a Korean woman...No wonder why korean hate Japs.
http://www.bestgore.com/murder/aftermath-live-dissection-woman-unit-731-japan/
Josef Mengele would be proud of his yellow monkey followers.
You are clinging to the past, the current Japan is not the one responsible towards that bioweapon experiment.
You think our white ancestor is kind people? They burn witch alive, kill everyone during war, hang a person to be feed by crow..
And even right now, somebody is being tortured right inside Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, without the right for law protection. No attorney and no court session, just being tortured every single day.
And the dolphin killing is no worse than the cow, chicken and pig you kill, for food every day.
Because humans have totally never driven another species to endangerment or extinction before, right?
Cows and pigs and what not are mostly bred specifically for slaughter/factory farms. It's controlled and different than taking wild animals. I don't agree with the US butting their heads in, but it's a situation Japan should be wary of.
So you fail to learn from past mistakes? Wow! How civilized you retards are....
The main difference is that The meat from cow or pig from dolphins is that the former is sustainable while the latter is not in its current form. Maybe if the Japanese want to eat dolphin so badly they should set up dolphin farms instead of killing wild ones whose numbers can't keep up with the demand.
This is true but Kennedy condemned the act on its "inhumaneness" alone. I dont believe her tweet mentioned anything about the issue of sustainablity which is a valid one.
Twitter also isnt really the place for her to make such statements nor is a statement like it really appropriate for an ambassador meant to improve relations.
I think this is a huge improvement, the Tampponese seem to think they are the one's who hired her. Now they get the record straight.
That's a funny monniker you came up with. Are you proud of it? God, you're stupid.
You need to realize that while there can be argument about the killing of the dolphins themselves (I'm not keen on criticizing the Japanese for eating a different animal than the US tends to) the method Japan uses to kill them is absolutely cruel and heinous.
The US does have it's own cruel techniques for killing animals (though I'd argue less so than Japan's current Dolphin bleed out) that doesn't excuse Japan's method at_all. They are in the wrong in this regard.
Of course, then there's the whole whale debacle with species that are very close to if not endangered and the fact that no one in Japan seems to know where that meat is actually going. All of this just as bad if not worse than the dolphin killing.
Don't be a Japanese fanboy and learn about the issues that you're talking about. The US is wrong in its sometimes inhumane animal treatment and so is Japan and other countries.
They don't kill them for meat.
They kill them because they traditionally believe that the dolphins are responsible for poor fishing yields, which is simply not true. This comes from a belief that dates way back and is not grounded in science. For a time the meat was sold to schools labeled as "whale meat" but was since stopped when citizens found out what it really was. MOST Japanese do nto agree with the dolphin slaughter practice. It is really only a handful of fishing communities and their representatives that support it.
But yeah.. right now, the dolphins are lured in, pithed, bled out, and left to rot. So, please don't use the uneducated "meat industry" excuse. Culture? Did you know that traditional Japanese culture is also pro-rape, torture, and slaughter of humans as an act of warfare? Can we use tradition as an excuse now? Can we use Cultural differences as an excuse now?
the fact of the matter is... if you want to work, do business with, share knowledge with the modern world, you better fucking get up to speed and comply with the modern world.
YOU GO~~~~~~~~~~!
The way sharks are butchered for shark fins is far worse, as they slice the fins off the still living shark and push it overboard. Absolutely disgusting.
Sharks have the highest mercury contamination of all sea life known so far.
09:49
So, what, you're saying shark fin consumption is an excuse for the Japanese to be terrible piece of shit human beings too?
First understand why they are killing them, and its not for food, its retarded superstitious garbage. Dolphins where going there long before there was even a japan, and you would think japan is not some barbaric stuck in time country of people.
The issue is that because Japanese have problems criticizing others the majority of Japanese don't have the testicles to tell a very small minority enough is enough.
FACK YOU DORPHINS !
and fack you whales!
People take to the killing of all animals differently and it's not as simple as one life of an animal=another. Otherwise we'd all feel apathetic about the murder of humans wouldn't we? Dolphins are extremely free and intelligent creatures who live rich and complex social lives and displays many evidence of culture socially and even linguistically. Those are qualities that humans really identify with and it's not hypocritical to say that I care about animals like dolphins in the wild being slaughtered than I care about cows bred to die being slaughtered.
Dolphin is intelligent, yes. But is a dolphin as intelligent as human that make us equal?.. nope.
Dolphin brain capacity is closer toward cow's brain rather than human. At most, dolphin can distinguish alphabet, and dolphin cannot not doing critical thinking like human does.
Also, dolphin, like all other animal, don't give a damn about human. Dolphin do not think human as any better than other animal. Only us love them so much that we forgot that we are in one sided relationship. Take a hungry tiger, do they stop and let human get away when it can just leap upon and break the person's neck?
"Dolphin brain capacity is closer toward cow's brain rather than human"
I call bull.
"Also, dolphin, like all other animal, don't give a damn about human." Also bull. I've never heard of cows saving humans or protecting them from predators.
"But is a dolphin as intelligent as human that make us equal?" By that logic we should eat great apes. They're intelligent but not as intelligent as us so omnomnomnom
"Take a hungry tiger, do they stop and let human get away when it can just leap upon and break the person's neck?" Wait I'm confused are we better than animals, including dolphins, or the same? Make up your mind.
So you JUSTIFIED their killing just because they're less intelligent from us humans?? While they're so kind and friendly to humans in their nature?? How bout I just kill your retarded children, coz I think I'm smarter than them.
If we're justified in eating less intelligent beings, I call dibs on 05:27. His brain capacity is closer toward cow's brain rather than human.
I wonder what would be Sancom Fag's response if the Chinks are doing the killing.
Of Hundreds of Fish Meat God has grace us in the vast ocean....why is it have to be DOLPHIN?? They're so cute and friendly to humans!! And they're a highly intelligent animals too!! They DO understand the sadness and pain of being slaughtered!!