Disney Japan Twitter Offers Congrats on Hiroshima, Nagasaki Anniversaries

Disney Japan is under fire after its official Twitter account congratulated the country on the 70th anniversary of the U.S. military dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As Kotaku points out, this isn’t the first time @DisneyJP has tweeted questionable content in relation to certain infamous dates from Japanese history. A few others were found to make similar insensitive allusions to terrible past events.

Here’s what Disney Japan tweeted Sunday:

The Japanese reads: “Congrats on a trifling day.” Combined with imagery from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, the tweet was supposedly meant to commemorate the anniversary of the the second atomic bomb, which was used on Nagasaki.

A few days prior, another tweet did the same for Hiroshima:

This one says, “Giving you mid-summer sympathy,” along with an image of Frozen‘s snowman character Olaf basking in the sun.

After taking down the offending posts, Disney Japan subsequently apologized in a tweet. They called the tweets “improper” and vowed to be more careful with future commemorative postings.

[h/t Kotaku]
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