Comments on: Japan’s unofficial mascot arrives in Germany to cheer ‘Woof Woof’ http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html World Cup 2006 - Germany Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:05:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Davee Bee http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html/comment-page-1#comment-166 Davee Bee Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:28:18 +0000 http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html#comment-166 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! 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!

]]> By: Davee Bee http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html/comment-page-1#comment-165 Davee Bee Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:27:19 +0000 http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html#comment-165 http://japundit.com/archives/2006/06/10/2733/ More commentary here: http://japundit.com/archives/2006/06/10/2733/

More commentary here:

]]> By: Davee Bee http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html/comment-page-1#comment-164 Davee Bee Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:26:19 +0000 http://japan.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japans-unofficial-mascot-arrives-in-germany-to-cheer-woof-woof.html#comment-164 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? 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?

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