Jun 21 2007Japanese People Hate Clint Eastwood
Dude, we really should've brought a lighter fuckin flag.
Aggrieved because the movie Clint Eastwood made about it was so goddamned boring, Japanese islanders are officially changing the name of Iwo Jima back to it's original name, Iwo To.
Before the war, the volcanic island was known as Iwo To by the 1,000 or so civilians who lived there. They were evacuated in 1944 as U.S. forces advanced across the Pacific. Some Japanese navy officers who moved in to fortify the island mistakenly called it Iwo Jima, and the name stuck. After the war, civilians weren't allowed to return, and the island was put to exclusive military use by both the U.S. and Japan, cementing its identity.
In related news, Pearl Harbor has changed its name to "Aloha Inlet", Alcatraz prison has changed it's nickname to "The Stone", and Armageddon has been removed from the bible in favor of "The Final Clusterfuck" - all in response to atrocities committed by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay.
Reader Comments
1. uni'tard - June 21, 2007 9:00 PM
can't these jap(anese)s have some gd respect for the veterans? you know, the veterans who slaughtered their ancestors.
meh.
2. Hawaii Dude - June 21, 2007 9:09 PM
In other news, the US government apologizes for the forced annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii and turns control of the Islands back over to the native people. Massive arguments break out about how to redesign the US flag to only have 49 stars.
3. BL - June 25, 2007 7:18 PM
So basically, in Japanese the way it's written won't change -- the kanji for "island" has multiple readings, including "jima" and "to." Reading it, you wouldn't know which way to say it if you hadn't heard someone else say it. Um, and that's the lesson for today.
4. Reggie - July 1, 2007 12:08 PM
>>Aggrieved because the movie Clint Eastwood made about it was so goddamned boring
Yeah, but it wasn't made for dumbfuck adolescents like yourself!
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