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WTF Headline Of The Day: Justin Bieber Visits Japan's Yasukuni War Shrine
With President Obama in the middle of the pissing match between Japan and China's nationalist provocations, we thought it perfectly appropriate that none other than Justin Bieber would visit the Class-A war criminal housing Yasukuni shrine. As might be expected, his actions stirred up controversy... We are sure Obama was quick to point out that Bieber is Canadian...
As The Diplomat's Zachary Zeck explains, the pop star’s visit was highly controversial and won him criticism from China’s Foreign Ministry.
Global pop star Justin Bieber has sparked controversy in Asia after he uploaded photos of his visit to Japan’s controversial war shrine.
During a visit to Tokyo with his mother on Wednesday, Justin Bieber posted photos of himself at Japan’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine on his Instragram account, sparking outrage in some Asian countries.
As outrage spread across social media sites in China and South Korea, China’s Foreign Ministry took the unusual step of directly addressing the issue. “I don’t know the political stance of this Canadian singer, but China’s view on Japanese leaders visiting the Yasukuni Shrine is clear and consistent,” a spokesperson with the Foreign Ministry said, South China Morning Post reported. He added: “I hope this singer can learn more about the history of Japanese militarism, and the wrongful historical and militaristic views promoted by the shrine after the visit.”
The Yasukuni Shrine source has been a source of great tension between Japan and some of its neighbors, most notably South Korea and China. Japanese politicians, including current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have visited the shrine to commemorate the death of Japanese soldiers in war. However, the shrine also honors 14 class-A war criminals and Chinese and South Koreans insist that visits by top Japanese leaders underscore Tokyo’s lack of remorse for Imperial Japan’s horrendous actions during the WWII era.
The outrage Bieber’s visit sparked in some Asian countries led the pop star to quickly remove the offending photos from his Instagram accounts and issue an explanation and apology for posting them in the first place.
“While in Japan I asked my driver to pull over for which I saw a beautiful shrine [sic]. I was mislead [sic] to think the Shrines were only a place of prayer,” Bieber wrote on his Instragram account Wednesday afternoon local time. He added: “”To anyone I have offended I am extremely sorry. I love you China and I love you Japan.”
This is not the first time that Bieber has sparked controversy by wading into sensitive WWII-era history. Last year during a trip to Amsterdam, Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, a memorial honoring the teenage holocaust victim whose diary has been widely read and turned into a play. Following the visit, Bieber wrote a message in the guest book of the site that read: “”Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.” “Belieber” is the word used to describe diehard fans of the pop star sensation.
How long before Kerry asks Bieber to join him in Kiev? On the bright side, a few million more Americans may now be aware of what the shrine means...
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Who freakin cares about this #Idiot
America cares about Bieber, Barbies, TV wall mounts, sunglasses, celebreties, and other sh!t that doesn't matter.
They will destroy each other over a toaster. Remember Black Friday?
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/12/scenes-from-hellaka-black-friday.html
Rodman can be our Ambassador to North Korea
Beiber can be our Ambassador to Japan
Hip-hop Prezzy Obama representing
Another reason to dislike the Bieber. If Obummer does one good thing (unlikely), please deport this idiot back to Canada.
wait, didn't O signed bill 2195?
Oooops! Both goner.
Beebs is the posterchild for this generation. Be afraid, be very afraid. They are the ones who'll inherit positions of leadership someday.
Did the Tylers go away and leave their niece in charge today?
Yea, well Rodman's american.
No "Live in Schenzen" album I guess.
Oh fuck!!
I SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN YESTERDAY!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-24/futures-creep-toward-all-time-h...
Make him go away!
#douche
Beeber Silver 1 Kilo Coins Being Minted at the USA Mint
Silver coins with the face of Jason Beeber are being minted at the USA Mint. The coins weigh one kilogram (1kg - 2.2lb) and are being launched by the White House to mark Merika's edukational advancements during the last decade.
Not Unpossible I tell you. Look around you when you walk the streets or the mall. See.
Stop it, I can't breathe.
Now now, let's not get carried away here. The Bieber coins do not weigh a kilo, ... they are hollow, ... and made of silver plastic, ... in China.
Where do you think you are - some place outside of Merika?
Exactly,...who cares.....can't believe I even opened this post.....duh!
look at it for what it is... a cheap stunt to keep WWII in the news... ancient history, but certain groups won't ever let it their fake version of WWII go... its the gift that just keeps on giving. granted its usually nazi stories, over and over, but i guess in asia the evil Japanese war criminal meme works better.
newflash, wwII is ancient history... bad shit is happening today, every day... how about we focus on that.
John
WW2 maybe ancient history for you but many of us have fathers who fought and even if not the lessons of that war are still important. The Nazis and the Japanese did some bad things. The shame is still felt by the good peoples of those countries. Maybe some day the USA will have to answer for some of the things it has been accused of in post war time. If you are unfamiliar read The Rape of Nanjing....or ask a Korean of Chinese friend why they are upset by visits to the shrine. Nation pride is one thing but resurecting the memory of those who committed clear cut war crimes including civilian murders and starving American POWs is another.
I lived in Nanjing for over a year, I know what happened there. My point is, most of what you hear about WWII these days is pure propaganda. Plenty of sins to go around on all sides...
I understand and concur. But, to keep perspective, allow me to (once again) point out an inconvenient truth that few dare to proselytize and few are aware of:
14,000,000 Russians died in fighting the Nazis, and it was the Russians who liberated Auschwitz, etc, Poland and Eastern Europe from Hitler and his Bankster sponsors.
How terribly ironic that the Jewish-controlled MSM and Hollywood will not give this TRUTH just air time, or even admit to it.
If I didn't know better, it's almost as though the bitter Trotskyists and their spawn still have an axe to grind for having been booted out of power. Unbelievable. But true.
BTW, some of Kirk's ancestors have fought, bled and died in their fight against Hitler, been killed by a firing squad, and killed in Auschwitz. So anyone who thinks they can junk me for "antisemitism" can fuck right off.
I'm here to paint the WHOLE picture, not just the "fashionable" or managed parts, which amount to "Paint by Numbers".
u have to understand, that hitler was a nationalist cunt and stalin was a class cunt, buth cunts of highest degree...
yes 14 mils died fighting nazis but more than that died just because they werent comunist enough...
i am sorry but calling it a "liberation"? you definitely are not from poland or eastern europe....
That was pretty quick banzaisan. I'm not saying you took a print down off your wall and scanned it real quick but I'm not not saying that either...:)
I have 12000 images waiting to be redeployed at a moments notice. But this one hangs over my latrine.
You should have a little more respect for your latrine.
Alas, alas, three times alas, inspiration for this work must have come from blobbing up intestinal Bieberism.
WB7, you're gettng around.
The fact that many people do is the scary part.
On behalf of all Canadians I apologize for this skin bag
It's okay for Canadians to now point out that.... "Technically, Bieber is a US Subject". Technically.
And that he was "relatively normal" when he first arrived in the US. What the US music media did to him, Canadians will disavow.
That being said... what my friends in English Canada and mes ami(e)s in Quebec can't deny, is how damn USELESS they've been at firing that smegma-licking lackey: PM Harper. If they REALLY want to be ashamed of someone.
Ah, ah, Bieber is an 'american', living off extorting the weak-minded and farming the poor taste.
A sure path to wealth.
WHY am I reading about Bieber here? I thought I was safe here!
Was hoping he'd commit sepuku or hara-kiri in front of the shrine. Now, that would be awesome!
PayPerView, Bitchez
Pay per view "Paper-view in silhouette"?
Rodman is not going to like this.
lol...Rodman is just a misunderstood egotistic one percenter, who fancies himself to be an unusually tall, pierced, dyed & tatooed common man statesman, searching for global peace with a brain dead, narcissitic tyrant who happens to be a midget, with a Napolean complex.
Its like a match made in Paradise Lost ;-)
Rodman is broke and far from being a 1 percenter...
Luxury evening gowns cost too much?
It's the make-up and waxing.
His name was Justin Bieber.
He looks like vanilla ice took a dump.
classic
Word to your mother.
Hahahaha!
Now that's funny.
Is this kid related to Jimmy Hoffa?
Or Black & Decker nailgun spokesperson?
why are his legs so short. wtf is wrong with this kid. That fukushima radiation kicks in fast I guess
Small dick no doubt accompanies the short legs; and a low I.Q.
Knowing what you know about history and eugenics, why do you think someones genes have managed to be passed along through countless generations with the physical traits of short legs, short dick and short IQ?
Scarecrow shortage.
but a lot of money.
small cock. oops. well, thats not his fault. at least selena rocked it pretty good
Speaking of "shrines"?....
Unrelated but when Wolf Blitzer of "CIANN" asks the very direct and provocative question of the ex-PM of the U.K. if he is worried about another 9/11 style attack, people listen....
Come on Wolf you know that could never happen again? The boyz and girlz at the NSA, CIA and DoD haven't had a 9/11 magnitude attack happen in this Country -well since 9/11?! Perhaps Wolf was asking that question because the NATO allies haven't put the same heart and soul into protecting the globe the way the United States and Israel has?
If anything happens in England or Western Europe before NATO starts a war provoking Russia Wolf just wanted to ask that question of Tony -just in case!
Relax! No worries...
The U.S. and Israel have no plans for using that Malaysian Boeing airliner for anything other than spare parts!
just look for a day all sort of military drills are planned, the air defenses are all on stand down... and you know its on. all you need then is some magic box cutters that can turn buildings to dust, and its on.
"just look for a day all sort of military drills are planned, the air defenses are all on stand down... and you know its on. "...
The amazing thing is they are that desperate and what makes it far worse is that we can count on the American people "again"... and again... and again... to fall for it when they are told they must support the cause du jour.
I'm convinced at this point that the only thing that will keep us from WWIII is a civil war with a "Clive Bundy" event in each and every State of the Union -Right about Now!
Where is my hash tag button? oops I fucked up again?
I feel culturally refreshed.
"Belieber” is the word used to describe diehard fans of the pop star sensation.
For the life of me I cannot determine were I stepped throuh that rip in space-time. Guess I'm stuck in this fucked up parallel universe.
You better beliebe it. Sorry, I couldn't help it.
Take your hat off you douche-bag punk.
I would suggest that japanese war criminals do not deserve the honour.
This kid doesn't have a clue.
About hats,
Or honour.
+ 1
Canadian citizen
American invention
Brainless Canadian portrayed as a warmongerer.
Priceless ;-)
He needs to be popped like the little ZIT he is.
Japanese war criminals would have been Beliebers.
Belieber? 83195 likes? He's a class act
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Hitlerjugend_vi...
Hitler Youth visit Yasukuni Shrine 1938...2014 Revisited?
As for Obama, he visited the Meiji-jingu, a shrine to the Meiji Emperor who is deified by the Japanese. Of course, the entire area was closed to the public for the day, pissing off more than a few Japanese.
It must be super-cool to be the leader of the once-free world.
Okay, so now we're up to date with Justin Bieber news, what's happening with Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan. Inquiring minds want to know.
War just might make men out of Biebers. Seems overdue anyway judging by the gay fashion.
If only he would of went to North Korea at the request of true fans like myself.
Not that war is ever pretty, but the Japanese did horrific things during WWII to the Chinese...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
I'd probably be pissed if I was Chinese too.
Of course Mao did even worse things to even more Chinese, but they revere him.
Only because they weren't chosen for the slaughter.
Tylers, seriously, never change. This place is like the Gawker of finance only 800% more informative to boot.
Justin Beiber's visit to anywhere carries no political message of support, nor should it. Move along.
What's a "Class-A" war criminal? Does that mean they are a better class of war criminal? Presumably still not up to the standard of a Nobel Peace Prize winning war criminal.
class a war criminals are on the losing team. class b war criminals are on the winning side. arlington cemetery has a lot of class b war criminals. then there are the class c war criminals who played both sides, the bankers. they are doing god's work.
Glad to say I've never heard a word from this fucking cumstain (consciously), they don't play this stuff on KKYX. One of the best gifts I've got was KKYX going to FM. Fuck kids with straight billed, crooked ball caps. You're white, act as such. Ending the drunk rant here.
In other news - Asian countries were actually not outraged AT Justin Bieber, because they wondered who the f is that wasting their time.
I'm surprised at you guys... Bieber is an important figure in Asia (stop LOLing!) and this is a TPTB provocation telegraphing to the sheeple of Asia the US position. "We're with Abe motherfuckers, so watch how you transgress Japanese airspace, we've already made a pilgrimage to the war gods!"
The monkey was right to dump him.
The hat really accentuates his pin head.
Bukake Bieber Bitchez!!!
Geez that's an ugly chick with the Beebs!!!
What an idiot. This is like commiting entertainment suicude. How big is the market in China, again?
They have their own Justins. Don't need him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE9lTxYfTas
Is there some official criteria for "class A" war criminal like grade AA eggs or is this just more jap boasting?
If there is a criteria for "class A war criminal" does Obama qualify?
What was Saddam's grade for which war?
In other news, we downgraded Saddam from a A++ to a C-. Hitler was upgraded and is top notch investment grade war criminal. You never want to invest in sub-prime war criminals. Only the Best will give you good results in the long term.
I don't believe this!!! This Canuck treats our country like trash and now he goes and stirs up a hornets nest of trouble in Asia? Screw him and his fans! Deport him now! Oh and regarding this statement: "a few million more Americans may now be aware of what the shrine means...". Yep public education and it's supporters (i.e. the DNC, ACLU, NEA, AFT et all ) can be proud of themselves. Oh and Madelyn Murray O'Hare as well!!! May they eat poop and turn green!
If Dennis Rodman went to the Japanese shrine he would probably offend both Japan and China.
Send over the twerker while you're at it.
Yoose made me laf.
Gudonya
What the hell is he wearing? Is that a dress? A skirt over silver leggings? A hoodie? Back to the Future shoes?
This is the same guy that visited the Ann Frank shrine....and said that she would have been a belieber.
My daughter could beat the crap out of that little weed....whose claim to fame seems to be that he is completely stupid.
He's famous because he's well known.
He's a Wigger.
I had bought some German war souvenirs, I did not know the NAZIs had used them, when I visited the Frank House. When they told me about it, I said, let's go, I thought the Frank house was a hot dog joint."
Get him to do a tour of Nanking.
WHAT A "BIEBER"... HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IF YOU EXPLAINED HIM...
Next stop:
Valle de Los Caidos
Apart from the obvious, that Bieber couldn't distinguish a hat from a dick, I think that this news is highly relevant to an economic/financial site. Why?
To run a good, healthy economy you need citizens. To get out of a financial/debt mess you need smart, intelligent, dynamic citizens. A LOT OF THEM. Seeing this news and thousands of Likes and that this little moron just bought himself a fucking Bugatti Veyron, you can see that we are truly fucked. The critical mass in quality citizens to move things in a better direction is just non-existent!
If there is a good indicator for future developments in the markets then it's this: THE BIEBER INDEX. The higher we go on "Bieber Love" on the Index, the darker our future looks like.
Let me repeat: YOU CAN'T BUILD SOUND, HEALTHY GOVERNMENTS, SOCIETIES and ECONOMIES if you only have idiotic morons to do so!
Long on Silver Leggings!
Cool, you have invented the BDEX
I should start selling "Bieber Derivatives" so that everybody can go SHORT on this sucker.
"I was roaming thru the woods and found this neat place with a little memorial. Only later was I told the Poles were massacred here."
"I was still wearing my Japan Kamikaze hat and did not know it would create a controversy when I visited the Arizona Memorial. I was not aware a sneak attack had happened there."
He's bad-ass. Don't F with the Beeb
Maybe he'll join Rodman and Kim for a little 3 way link sausage breakfast?
Twerk the shrine! Nothing says loser more than that photo. I feel sorry for the dipshit that had to stand there with him.
I'm glad Justin visited the war crimes shrine. Now 200+ million more people are aware that such a shrine exists and that the Chinese are not fans of this shrine.
We need to do a lot more for child autism, other than enshrine its victims.
Although that hat does seem a good idea to identify them.