When Naomi Osaka on Saturday, going out on a floodlit Rod Laver Arena for his first final at the Australian Open, will no one be in any doubt about her dark skin color.

It sounded have tennisstjernen with the japanese mother from her haitian father, and that she has not even any problem with.

it had It’s major japanese nudelfirma, Nissin, however, apparently, when, in a typical, national, manga-style, the character of the one in Japan knew Takeshi Conomy, would market its products via the popular winner of the US Open in 2018.

So they chose to lighten her a little. Change hårstilen and adjust a little on her nose.

It was a PR-related boomerang for the company, which ran into a shitstorm on the social media. Nissin felt need to pull the campaign, which is also the nation’s male tennis champion Kei Nishikori appear back and regret it.

A spokesman for the company, Daisuke Okabayashi, says in the follow New York Times that the characters were developed in the Conomy’s usual line, and that you had communicated with representatives for Naomi Osaka.

But one regret, the ’confusion and discomfort’, as the advertisement may have caused.

– There have not been any intention to wash her white. We accept that we have not been sensitive enough and will be more aware of the diversity theme in the future, he says.

the New York Times have asked the author Baye McNeil, who has lived in Japan for 15 years, to comment on the embarrassing matter. He says that he does not understand the need to remove the black characteristics to make the image of Osaka to a prototype of the neighbor’s daughter.

– To try to get her to see the white out, telling people that they are not good enough as they are, he says.

A debate on the double race was also up and running in Japan in 2015, where Ariana Miyamoto, half japanese and half african american, was named Miss Universe. More modelling agencies refused so to use her.

Naomi Osaka hope that the company Nissin will engage in a dialogue with her first, if it will portray her in the future. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Naomi Osaka is a mixed background and derived sounded like a positive factor.

– Maybe people can’t really greje, what I am, so that way everyone can cheer for me, she has previously said.

And at the press conference after his successful semi-final against Karolina Pliskova, did she say directly to the matter.

I have spoken with them and they have said sorry. I are colored. It is fairly obvious.

She believes, however, that the Nissin has laundered her with malice aforethought.

– But I think definitely, that next time, they will portray me – must talk to me about it.

Naomi Osaka meetings in addition, the pale check, Petra Kvitova, in Saturday’s finale.

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