Honestly... I think I need to hide.
This GUY is all over [STRIKE]Tokyo[/STRIKE] Japan on poster boards and advertisements for McDonald's and even in TV ads now.
SERIOUSLY McD's... WTF were you people thinking?
God help the rest of us... a 43 year old Japanophile from Ohio.
Read the comments.... at the bottom of this link.
Mr James � Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
I don't think I'm going to McD's again till they remove that guy, I don't want some J-girl looking at me and then looking at that guy. ".....NO. I'M NOT RELATED ... and ... I DON'T KNOW HIM..." Not all foreigners in Japan know each other! --- I like talking to random J-girls, but not about this guy.
Christ.
This GUY is all over [STRIKE]Tokyo[/STRIKE] Japan on poster boards and advertisements for McDonald's and even in TV ads now.
SERIOUSLY McD's... WTF were you people thinking?
God help the rest of us... a 43 year old Japanophile from Ohio.

Caption said:Mr James, the American mascot of McDonald’s Japan, is a character invented by advertising giant Dentsu for McDonald’s Japan’s new burger line - the “Nippon All Stars.†The campaign, running through Nov 5, promotes four burgers available only in Japan. On his blog on the McDonald’s Japan website, Mr James is described as a 43-year-old Japanophile from Ohio. According to a TIME magazine story, Mr James has upset non-Japanese, among them Arudo Debito, the chairman of the Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens’ Association of Japan, for being “white, dorky and speaking mangled Japanese†which the group feels plays to Japan’s xenophobic tendencies. TIME reports that Debido has officially protested the Mr James campaign with a letter to McDonald’s Corp headquarters in Illinois.
Read the comments.... at the bottom of this link.
Mr James � Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
I don't think I'm going to McD's again till they remove that guy, I don't want some J-girl looking at me and then looking at that guy. ".....NO. I'M NOT RELATED ... and ... I DON'T KNOW HIM..." Not all foreigners in Japan know each other! --- I like talking to random J-girls, but not about this guy.
Christ.
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