Japanese Netizens React to Scenes of Americans Celebrating the Death of Bin Laden
As many of you already know, the United States announced earlier today that its forces had killed terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. The news prompted a spontaneous street party in front of the White House, with college students waving flags, chanting, and expressing nationalistic joy at the death of America’s #1 enemy.
Most Japanese tv channels used scenes of the celebration when reporting about Bin Laden’s death. Footage of Americans chanting “USA! USA! USA!” seemed to be particularly popular.
What do Japanese people think about the celebration? I can’t say for sure, but I can at least translate a few interesting internet comments. Here are a few quick and dirty translations of Japanese netizens’ comments, from a 2channel thread about the celebrations:
いくら大犯罪者だとしても殺害の報道でここまで喜べるって言うのは
なんか日本人とは感覚が少し違う気がするなあ～俺が平和ボケしてるだけかもしれないが
Even though he was a terrible criminal, they’re celebrating so much about the news of a person being killed. It seems a bit different from the way Japanese people would react. But maybe I’m just too used to peace…
人を殺して喜ぶとかホント馬鹿だな
It’s truly idiotic to be happy about killing a person.
野蛮人VS野蛮人
Savages vs. Savages
これで支持率が下がってたオバマは復活。
管は誰を殺せば復活するんだろうかw
Obama’s sagging approval ratings should improve after this.
Maybe Kan can achieve the same if he killed somebody..lol
憎たらしいのは分かるけど人殺してこんな大々的喜ぶってなんかおかしい
I understand that they hate him, but it’s really strange to see such a huge joy over the killing of a person.
日本だとこういう時どういう歓声がいいの？
「ニッポンﾁｬﾁｬﾁｬ」とか絶対やめてほしいよね
「大日本帝国万歳」とか「天皇陛下万歳」？
In Japan, what should we chant when something like this happens?
I really want people to stop saying “Nippon-cha-cha-cha.”
How about “Dai Nippon Teikoku, Banzai!” (Long Live the Japanese Empire) or “Tenno Heika Banzai!” (Long Live the Emperor)?
マジでこんなノリだな
It’s totally like that.
日本人はルーズベルトが病死したときに日の丸掲げて歓喜したんだけどなあ
敵の死を喜ぶ習慣はあるよ
Japanese also waved the flag and celebrated when FDR died.
It’s the custom of being happy about the death of an enemy.
日本を早く併合してください
僕もUSA!USA!したいです
Hurry up and annex Japan!
I want also want to shout “USA! USA!”
ビンラディンを擁護するつもりはないが、
アメリカのこういうナショナリズムは大っ嫌いだわ
気持ち悪い
I’m not defending Bin Laden, but I really hate this kind of American nationalism.
It’s disgusting.
4chan見てたけどなんとなく理解した
ビンラディンが死んでどうこうというよりも、あれはただの祭りだ
After checking out 4chan, I kind of understand what’s going on.
It’s not so much because of Bin Laden’s death. They’re just partying.
福島原発テロの首謀者が殺されたら日本人は赤飯でも炊くのかな
If the ringleaders of the Fukushima nuclear terror were killed, maybe Japanese people would cook up some sekihan.
Related image: Not from Japan, but still relevant (and maybe not real).
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