| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/09/17, 11:52 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Japan is to lodge a formal complaint with French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné after it published a cartoon showing sumo wrestlers with extra arms in reference to Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympic Games, despite the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Japan reacted angrily Thursday to cartoons published in a French newspaper that mocked the decision to award the 2020 Olympic Games to Tokyo despite the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Published by the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné in its Wednesday, September 11 edition, one of the cartoons depicts two emaciated sumo wrestlers sporting extra limbs with the stricken
Fukushima nuclear power plant in the background.
A caption reads: “Thanks to Fukushima, sumo is now an Olympic sport.”
Another cartoon shows two people, donning radiation suits and holding Geiger counters, standing in front of a pool of water, with a caption stating that “the Olympic swimming pool has already been built at Fukushima”, an apparent reference to Japan’s struggle to contain leaks of radioactive water at the damaged plant.
Japan does not appear to have appreciated Le Canard Enchaine satirical approach to the Fukushima disaster, and the country’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the government would lodge an official complaint with the publication.
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