Japanese Media Struggles to Translate Trump’s “#Shithole” · Global Voices
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On Thursday, January 11, United States President Donald Trump generated instant controversy when he reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and countries in Africa as “shithole countries.” While many newsrooms in the English-language world debated whether or not to reprint the US president’s expletive, journalists working in other languages struggled to properly translate the word “shithole”. Japanese media was no exception.