A female Japanese comedy duo has received backlash for making racist comments about tennis star Naomi Osaka . They made the remarks when the 21-year-old beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to win the Pan Pacific Open over the weekend in Osaka, Japan. The comedy team, called “A Masso,” made the comments at an event on Sunday, on the same day Osaka received her trophy, when they said she “needed some bleach” and “she is too sunburned.” A Japanese female comedy duo and their management company apologized for making racist comments about women’s tennis star Naomi Osaka. (Photo: Koji Watanabe / Getty Images Sport via Getty Images) Both women, as well as their management company Watanabe Entertainment Co Ltd, issued a general apology afterward, but they didn’t relay it to the tennis star specifically. Osaka, who was born in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan, and is currently ranked No. 4 in the world in women’s tennis, has a Haitian father and Japanese mother, and she moved to the United States as a young child. “Though we should have thought about it, we made remarks that hurt many people, something we will never do again,” wrote one of the women, Ai Murakami, on Watanabe Entertainment’s […]
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