Ichiro Ozawa hugs American children

DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa (the shadow shogun) meets some American children and gives them hugs:

The American elementary and middle schoolers were invited to Japan so they could experience Japanese culture. As you can see from the video, their cultural experience includes eating a fine meal of hamburgers and Coca Cola before they travel to Tokyo Disneyland. For some reason, Ozawa feels the need to give a hug to each child.

Note: This video clip was from last week. Ozawa is visitng China with a huge freakin’ delegation of DPJ lackeys.

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12 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - December 11, 2009 at 7:09 am

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Montsan

Perhaps there were no babies around to kiss?
acco

I can’t tell who looks more uncomfortable, him or the kids.
HamachiMan

Nice gesture, hope the kids enjoy disneyland.
rabuho

So they could’ve all just stayed in the US and missing nothing, then. Oh, except for creepy hugs from a politician.
lovely

yeah, you are right acco and rabuho – gives me the creeps just watching.
Ajapa

Maybe, those American kids had to learn to be very submissive and patient? Scary Ozawa the Shadow Shogun.
k9

hope his tsun-dere maid cafe diplomacy goes well. ahahahah
Karisu

Hamburgers, Coca-Cola, and Disney. Yep, doesn’t get much more Japanese than that!
kevin

So did they only invite the black kids or what?

green tea

Well on many occasions, the usual school trips to Japan from American are made by white children. Just about in all the photos I see white kids, but yes for the first time I see a trip of mostly black kids and yet people ask questions…when in all the other photos I never saw anyone questioning the fact that all the other kids were white.

Kou

I was wondering the same thing as kevin
schwelty

A field trip to Japan before you barely reached puberty? I’m jealous! But I do think it’s impressive that all the American students bowed before him. Since when did Americans learn about other cultures?! Ours is the best! /sarcasm Gives me hope that the Americans that visit Japan CAN give a good impression. I’m tired of our image being tarnished by people like, hmmm, say the US military who refuse to hand over some spoiled, rotten military brats who nearly committed a murder? WTF

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