Japanese Commercial: White People Have Gigantic Noses

UPDATE: Choya has pulled the commercial after receiving complaints from readers of this blog post.

A commercial for Choya umeshu mocks the physical appearance of non-Japanese:

Those who don’t appreciate this kind of racial joke can send Choya a complaint via their online contact form (in English – For Japanese language complaints, use this contact form).

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139 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 20, 2011 at 8:23 am

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http://twitter.com/JessicaHart23 Jessika

Japanese have big noses too, look at Kanon wakeshima! she has a pretty big nose for a asian girl.
- ChuckRamone
  
  Some Japanese people do. Generally speaking, though, that’s a major anatomical difference between white and Japanese people. What point are you trying to make? That Japanese people have the same size noses as white people do? You know that’s not true.

Japanese Commercial: White People Have Gigantic Noses

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