http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4930
lol.... racist... no....
I've received several e-mails over the last week regarding an E-mobile commercial running on Japanese TV that has a monkey campaigning for their service using "Change" signs:
Is this "the ugly head of racism" in Japan, as sites like Black Tokyo have written? I don't think so.
The commercial clearly is a parody of Barack Obama's campaign, which has received a lot of positive media coverage in Japan, but I don't feel that it reflects racist ideas about black people and monkeys. E-mobile has used this cute Japanese macaque as their mascot in commercials before this one (in the last one the monkey listened to headphones while using a PC), so it would be hard to claim that they just pulled this monkey out of nowhere so they could make a racist joke
Just posted this for a laugh...