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An employee of traditional Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu Corp shows "Kawari Hagoita" which features U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. Hagoita is a Japanese traditional battledore believed to be good for the healthy growth of girls. Kyugetsu creates battledores featuring well-known figures every year-end. Other figures include Prime Minister Taro Aso, Beijing Olympic gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima (swimming), Beijing Olympic gold medalist Yukiko Ueno (softball), actress Aoi Miyazaki, celebrity Suzanne, Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara, Yomiuri Giants baseball players Michihiro Ogasawara and Alex Ramirez, 2008 Nobel Prize winners for physics Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Masukawa, Yoichiro Nambu and chemistry winner Osamu Shimomura.
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Obama on Hagoita
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Altria
What are those things for? Do you give them a whack with the Obama stick when they're naughty?
pathat
Obama looks a little too pale.
Maybe this is a "futuristic" thing, you know, after he gets into the White House and finds out that he can't keep a lot of his economic promises without further bankrupting the country.
Then he'll really feel sick.
thepro
Creepy
meanmutha
his alter ego? anyway I like the guy.
rjd_jr
I like it, though could use better resemblance.
Maeno
Doesn't look like Obama at all.
Sarge
"Obama looks a little too pale"
He is half white.
There's a slew of Obama books in the bookstores these days. One of them is titled "The Audacity of Deceit." Looks interesting...
Dogdog
He might well be, but the only time the real Obama is gonna look that white is at his own wake.
The picture conforms to the Japanese racist perspective of the world pecking order. Whites, followed by the Japanese, followed by Asians and with black people of any nationality at the bottom.
I find it quite offensive, just like Japanese might find pictures of their own heroes touched up with a good coloring of luminous yellow.
When will they learn?
M51T
Too many pens in her pocket. In this economic climate, you'd think she'd be more prudent in pen usage. Disappointing.
Sarge
"Too many pens in her pocket"
She's a female otaku.
Alphaape
Dogdog, good points.
pathat
Dogdog wrote:
"He might well be, but the only time the real Obama is gonna look that white is at his own wake.
The picture conforms to the Japanese racist perspective of the world pecking order. Whites, followed by the Japanese, followed by Asians and with black people of any nationality at the bottom."
That's what I was hinting at, so thanks for clarifying things for Sarge.
goodmeat
Oh! I'm surprised to see this picture. I met her when I bought "Hagoita" for my daughters. She said "I am female otaku, female table tennis otaku". I think "Too many pens in her pocket" means "Too many pen-folder rackets in her house".
I lerned from her, "Hagoita" is used for the game looks like badminton. They hit a shuttlecock with "Hagoita". Winners of the game can paint the face of losers with "Sumi", Japanese black ink. At the time I played the game with her, I losed again and again. All of my face became blaaack..