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Tourism minister apologizes for gaffes

New tourism minister Nariaki Nakayama wasted no time putting his foot in it. The day after stating that Japanese do not like foreigners and that the country is ethnically homogeneous, Nakayama apologized Friday and retracted his statements.

[THE JAPAN TIMES] Full story

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2 responses to “Tourism minister apologizes for gaffes”

  1. well, Oct 12 at 11:45 pm :
  2. sad

  3. bjorn, Nov 20 at 12:36 am :
  4. No. 9

    Japanese government (I think empirically it is most true and most multiplicerbart)
    And Chinese morality

    No. 9 (war is horrible as the Pope says, lose its soul as metaphor from the vatican says)

    But an empire which does not extend to (expand with some countries)

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