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Originally Posted by aohige
Uh, Vexx, it has nothing to do with how consistent it is with its humor.
It depicted Homer beating up the Emperor, and that's a no-no in Japanese television.
Hell, they even refrain from using imperial family depiction in fiction completely.
It has nothing to do with its track record of rediculing American culture.
It simply violated the broadcast code so it couldn't air in Japan.
It also portrayed the entire Japanese to be full of evil people hell bent on seeing others suffer, but that's a tolerable depiction for the sake of comedy. 
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Aye, I've seen the episode and I can see that it violated the broadcast code (so it goes though "no satire or depiction of the Emperor" seems odd to other countries who routinely satirize their kings, queens, and icons). Though Japan does do a fair job of poking at their elected officials at times.
Personally, I took that episode as the Simpson's version of a "typical unprepared ethnocentric American's view of a trip to Japan". Couple that with the fact that a lot of Japan really is funny (even the anime series run with those bits). The real idiots are still the Simpsons
