There is a city called "Obama" in Fukui Prefecture. "Obama" is written with a combination of kanji character for "little" and "beach." It is a former fishing village and well known for hand-painted lacquer ware (wakasa-nuri). Obama's success in the US presidential race has brought welcome publicity to the city. It has been featured numerous times in domestic and international media, and the number of visitors has increased 20 percent. The city has received various gifts for Obama to congratulate his presidential inauguration, but unfortunately the city doesn't have a way to present them to him at the moment.
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I think it is pretty funny that the town gets so much attention just for having that name. This is Japan lol.
by the way, thank you for the nice little article. I enjoy reading your blog.
i love to read ur blog. i want to know how to speak japanese.i’m from indonesia.yogyakarta city. dozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
only in Japan would people blindly follow a politician based solely on his name. how asinine!
Please leave the ethnocentric bigotry out. The comment “Only in Japan” shows you have no understanding about human behavior. People are people wherever you go.
i gave Gaijin the benefit of the doubt, thinking he was being ironic. if he was being sincere, then he should change his name to Baka Gaijin.
that looks nice because I love Japan Soooooo much, I’m from Egypt
It’s GAI-KOKU-JIN , not GAI-JIN. Gaijin is a BÛJOKU (insult !).
What a Coincidence…
What if the Next US President were named Osaka ?
I’ve seen the Obama City from the link above, I think it’s a nice near shore city… I hope there’s a lot of fish there