Japan’s unofficial mascot arrives in Germany to cheer ‘Woof Woof’

June 8th, 2006 | By: ShiLou | 3 Comments »

With the World Cup starting tomorrow, Japan’s secret weapon in the war to beat Australia, Croatia and Brazil in Group F has just arrived in Germany.

He is their unofficial mascot called Rommel.

The miniature dachshund – nicknamed Ron will be cheering the team on as they prepare to take on Australia on June 12.

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By Davee Bee | June 11th, 2006 at 1:26 pm

How can Japan in this day and age allow its soccer team to have a live
dog mascot
named Rommel (after the Nazi field marshall of World War II “fame”) in
Germany today for the
2006 World Cup? It boggles the mind. Shame on Japan!

And why has no intl media picked up this shameful story?

Posted from Taiwan

By Davee Bee | June 11th, 2006 at 1:27 pm

http://japundit.com/archives/2006/06/10/2733/

More commentary here:

Posted from Taiwan

By Davee Bee | June 11th, 2006 at 1:28 pm

A Japanese friend in his 40s, in Osaka, wrote me today, re this issue: “About the dog’s name, I agree with you. But, I guess whoever named the dog Rommel didn’t know that it was the name of a Nazi’s high ranking official. And nobody seems to care, right? (Otherwise, German media would have said something).”

And another friend in Tokyo, a longtime expat, wrote and said “Japanese give their dogs all kinds of strange names, and many of them don’t make much sense in English…”

So maybe this is all a tempest in a dog dish!

Posted from Taiwan

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