My latest column for The Japan Times is up!

And it’s literally a beauty!

Here’s an excerpt:

“Editing out the offending portions of the show saved Japan from the PR equivalent of being thrown like raw meat to a pack of ravenous carnivores — namely, the international media. It would have been extremely bad timing, particularly in light of recent events that have garnered global attention and made even mildly racial issues into hot-button ones.

This blackface story, if aired, would have broken amid the media’s current chorus of condemnation for a bus-full of white college kids merrily caroling about lynching black people from trees, and over the heightened tension in Ferguson, Missouri, where long-feared retaliation against police officers has occurred.”

Check Out the Rest HERE

And please leave a comment on the Japan Times website…if you dig it!

Thanks in advance!

Loco