Barbie’s Japan Debut Shadows Nuclear Memorials
Tokyo, 3 August: The live-action Barbie film, which stars Margot Robbie because the titular character, has been marred by controversy in Japan. A grassroots advertising marketing campaign that paired the movie with a biopic of nuclear bomb scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer has drawn widespread criticism, with many individuals calling it insensitive and disrespectful to the … [Read more…]