TOKYO - The US Embassy in Tokyo announced Thursday that the US administration has sacked Kevin Maher as head of the Japan businesses office of the State Department emulating derogatory remarks he made almost the people of Okinawa.
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Following the uproar occasioned by Maher, guiding to prefectural and metropolis assemblies in Okinawa calling for Maher to step down, beg and officially retract his comments, US gopher secretary of state Kurt Campbell was fulfilled to Tokyo.
Campbell on Thursday offered a private apology to the people of Okinawa and Japan and delivered deep rue on Maher's behalf,sacs louis vuitton, stating that Maher's views in no way characterize those of the US government.
In a conference held with Japan's fashionable Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto on Thursday,Mulberry bags, Campbell said that US Ambassador to Japan John Roos plans to visit Okinawa to offer one official apology to the people there in person.
Local media reported that the people of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, felt shocked,lisseur ghd gold, horrified and utterly ridiculed at Maher's remarks.
The publish arose during a State Department discourse in the US aimed at seminary students,chanel outlet, during which Maher referred to the folk of Okinawa as creature "mains of treatment and extortion. "
He also referred to the people of Okinawa as "inactive and deceptive,louis vuitton outlet," drawing the ire of Japan's senior ministers and the Japanese population at great.
The Okinawa prefectural assembly said that Maher's comments crushed on the sensibilities of the Okinawan people, ridiculing and insulting them and that the disparaging remarks were indeed unforgivable.
The assembly too said that Maher repeatedly made discriminatory comments and deeded discriminatorily during his time for consul general.
Added to this, 1 of the students heeding Maher's State Department lecture felt there were definitely racist undertones to the sometime US consul general's remarks.
During the lecture, Maher was quoted as saying: "Consensus creating namely essential in Japanese culture. While the Japanese would cry this 'consensus,' they mean 'extortion' and use this civilization of consensus as a manner of extortion."
"By masquerading to seek accordance, people attempt to obtain as much money as feasible,chanel sac," he said.
He was also quoted as mentioning that Okinawan people are, "also lazy to grow goya" a orthodox summer vegetable in the southern prefecture,h&m collection, along to official accounts.
Maher, 56,lisseur babyliss, served as the consul general in Okinawa from 2006 to 2009 after connecting the State Department in 1981. His comments have riled the people of Okinawa who have underwent under the ponderous burden of hosting US military bases as 65-years after the combat.
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