Editing Jap (section)

==Reaction in Japan==
[[File:Salvage Scrap propaganda poster crop2.jpg|thumb|WWII propaganda poster showing a snake representing Japan being bombed by an eagle.]]
[[Koto Matsudaira]], Japan's Permanent Representatives to the United Nations, was asked whether he disapproved of the use of the term on a television program in June 1957, and reportedly replied, "Oh, I don't care. It's {{sic|nolink=y|a|expected=an}} English word. It's maybe American slang. I don't know. If you care, you are free to use it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-31/|title=Protest envoy acceptance of 'Jap'|date=2 August 1957|website=Densho|publisher=Pacific Citizen|volume=45|issue=5|access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> Matsudaira later received a letter from the [[Japanese American Citizens League]] (JACL),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-274-130/|title=Reply to letter regarding use of term "Jap" on a television program|last=Miyakawa|first=Wataru|date=9 July 1957|website=Densho|access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref> and apologized for his earlier remarks upon being interviewed by reporters from [[Honolulu]] and [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-32/|title=Matsudaira sorry on acceptance of 'Jap'|date=9 August 1957|website=Densho|publisher=Pacific Citizen|volume=45|issue=6|access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> He then pledged cooperation with the JACL to help eliminate the term ''Jap'' from daily use.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-29-33/|title=Matsudaira to cooperate in JACL campaign to depopularize 'Jap'|date=16 August 1957|website=Densho|publisher=Pacific Citizen|volume=45|issue=7|access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>

In 2003, the Japanese deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Yoshiyuki Motomura, protested the North Korean ambassador's use of the term in retaliation for a Japanese diplomat's use of the term "North Korea" instead of the official name, "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".<ref>Shane Green, [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/05/1068013255536.html Treaty plan could end Korean War], ''The Age'', November 6, 2003</ref>

In 2011, after the term's [[wikt:offhand|offhand]] use in a March 26 article appearing in ''[[The Spectator]]'' ("white-coated Jap [[wikt:bloke|bloke]]"), the Minister of the Japanese Embassy in London protested that "most Japanese people find the word 'Japs' offensive, irrespective of the circumstances in which it is used".<ref>{{cite web|author=Ken Okaniwa|date=9 April 2011|title=Not acceptable|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/letters-9-april-2011|access-date=22 July 2012|work=[[The Spectator]]}} His brief letter continued, noting that the term had been used in the context of the then-recent [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]], with the [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster]] still-ongoing; "I find the gratuitous use of a word reviled by everyone in Japan utterly inappropriate. I strongly request that you refrain from allowing the use of this term in any future articles that refer to Japan."</ref>