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Hamada’s cosplay wasn’t the primary thing Japanese netizens were upset about, however. “We are aware of different opinions surrounding this issue and we will refer (to the feedback we received) when producing new shows,” the spokesman said. said the scene did not intentionally attempt to discriminate on racial grounds, adding that Hamada was just trying to portray Murphy’s “Beverly Hills Cop” character, Axel Foley. However, a spokesman for Nippon Television Network Corp. Many worried about what message these blackface gags send to the international community, with plenty mentioning the upcoming 2020 Olympics. Yet a large (and growing) chunk of Japanese responses to the incident online - whether expressed via the comments section on McNeil’s interview with Huffington Post Japan or as part of numerous tweets - felt different this time around. If anything, they say, Hamada was simply “honoring” Murphy with his extreme attention to detail. The Japanese, the argument goes, are unaware of the history behind blackface and many just don’t get why it is offensive. Japanese netizens (and some non-Japanese ones) responded to Hamada’s gag as they had to the blackface incidents that came before it: They played it down. News of the incident spread, and late last week it was picked up by such outlets as the BBC and The New York Times, among others. Japan Times columnist Baye McNeil summed up the anger in several posts, while also pointing out the frequency Japanese comedians resort to it for a cheap laugh ( including earlier in the week on another show altogether). This did not go over well with non-Japanese viewers, many of whom took their disgust to social media after Hamada made his entrance.
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Except for Masatoshi Hamada, one half of the comic duo Downtown, who dressed as Eddie Murphy from the film “Beverly Hills Cop” - complete with blackface. This year’s “Gaki no Tsukai” boasted the already tightrope-clinging theme of “American Cops,” meaning the five comedians starring in the seven-hour-long laugh jamboree sported law enforcement clothes.
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