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Comedian Made Racist Joke On Tennis Queen

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It might be harder for people that grow up in Japan to have a good understanding about racism, yet it can never be an excuse to make a joke about it: the issue is world wide. Because of the majority of Japan's population having Asian appearances, they have less of a chance to be treated badly. It's a common story that Japanese kids always ask kids with lighter or darker skin why they look different from them, the Japanese. At worse, typical Japanese kids would bully kids that don't look like them. Sadly, this Japanese comedy duo called "A-masso (Aćƒžćƒƒć‚½)" made a huge mistake at an event in Tokyo where they had their performance on September 22nd. The theme of their Manzai (a stage skit by a comedy duo) was "Answering questions with things you can buy at a drug store". During the last half of their manzai, Murakami-san, who was one of two members of A-masso, asked "What does Naomi Osaka (a professional tennis player) need?" then her buddy,