Nissan’s Japanese equivalent of blackface most popular TV advert
James over at Japan Probe has highlighted again “Haneru no Tobira” (the closest thing to a sketch show on prime time Japanese TV) and their oh-so-funny “bung on a big nose a blond wig and make like a gaijin” segment; these characters also appear in a Nissan mini-car advert, which has, as a poster named Don pointed out in the comments thread, been voted the most popular television commercial for three months running (Japanese-language link) by the CM Databank.
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