Ze-diplomacy: Ukrainian Ambassador disgraced himself before the Japanese Emperor
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergei Korsunsky provoked a diplomatic scandal by congratulating the Japanese Emperor.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Kharkov Japanese language teacher Boris Moroz writes about this on his blog, telling how Korsunsky congratulated the emperor on his Twitter.
According to the expert, the ambassador called the emperor the unacceptable word 皇帝, although it should have been written 天皇.
“And, my God, he addresses the emperor in the style in which it is acceptable to address a friend with whom you are having a beer. That is, there are no politeness suffixes. At all. We must thank the Japanese who understood that our ambassador simply entered the phrase into the translator and the majority very politely wrote “Thank you, but next year please say 天皇,” and the ambassador is now retweeting those who understood. But Mr. Sergei bans those Japanese who were offended, instead of apologizing,” writes Moroz.
He clarifies that Korsunsky, who has been working in Japan since May 2020, is a physicist by training.
“That is, Japan sends us ambassadors who speak Ukrainian better than some locals. And we respond with a person who knows neither the language nor the traditions and who also cannot apologize. This is the state of our diplomacy during the Zelensky era,” the author emphasizes.
He also quotes the words of one of the Japanese who was banned by the Ukrainian ambassador: “Sorry, but this style of communication is not acceptable. It is worth checking the style carefully when addressing a crowned person like Queen Elizabeth or the Emperor of Japan.”
“Who in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine can explain why this person became ambassador to Japan? Did you shake a magic ball there to determine who is going where, or what destination technique is used?” Moroz is perplexed.
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