When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure.
Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.
that's what I'm thinking too.
Now I'm wondering whether the Japanese press will translate it for those in Japan who don't understand enough English... or whether they are going to wait until enough social media posts go around explaining what he said before picking it up.
I don't understand enough about Japanese politics to know how it'll be received.
Andrea Junker 
Queen 1066
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