{"id":19106,"date":"2020-06-09T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T05:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/japans-public-broadcaster-condemned-over-offensive-blm-anime"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T05:32:49","slug":"japans-public-broadcaster-condemned-over-offensive-blm-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19106","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s public broadcaster condemned over &#8216;offensive&#8217; BLM anime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users have condemned the video for perpetuating stereotypes of African-Americans<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s public broadcaster, NHK, has come under fire after its attempt to explain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/black-lives-matter-movement\">Black Lives Matter <\/a>movement in anime form was condemned as offensive and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhk.jp\/p\/sekaima\/ts\/38WP73R9GN\/movie\/\">animated clip<\/a> features black men and women standing on a burned-out street with their fists raised, while an African-American man explains, to musical accompaniment, the cause of the protests that have rocked dozens of US cities over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/japans-public-broadcaster-condemned-over-offensive-blm-anime\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users have condemned the video for perpetuating stereotypes of African-AmericansJapan\u2019s public broadcaster, NHK, has come under fire after its attempt to explain the Black Lives Matter movement in anime form was condemned as offensive and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1445,88,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-black-lives-matter-movement","category-japan","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions\/19124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}