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Leaders of world powers strike energy blast pose<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s an interesting cultural question that pops up during international meetings in Japan: Should the participants shake hands at the end of their conversation? Japan isn\u2019t ordinarily a hand-shaking society, with bowing instead being the gesture by which respect, gratitude, and similar earnest sentiments are conveyed. However, most Japanese people know that handshaking is common in much of the rest of the world, especially western countries\u2026but then again, so too are many people from other nations aware that bowing is the norm in Japan.<\/p>\n There\u2019s not a clear consensus, and it\u2019s a question that only gets more complicated when both parties are prominent figures who frequently interact with each other\u2019s culture, such as, say, Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi and French president Emmanuel Macron. As the pair wrapped up a joint press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, it appeared that they\u2019d subconsciously settled on a handshake\u2026until Takaichi followed it with a third option<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Yes, that\u2019s Dragon Ball\u2019s kamehameha<\/strong> pose that the two world leaders exchanged. The gesture itself is more or less the same as Street Fighter\u2019s<\/em> hadouken<\/a>, but it\u2019s clearly Dragon Ball\u2019s<\/em> energy blast<\/a> that Takaichi and Macron are emulating, as Takaichi can be faintly heard saying \u201ckamehameha\u201d through the audience\u2019s applause. Macron himself, as a professed anime\/manga fan, is also likely more familiar with the kamehameha than the hadouken.<\/p>\n \u25bc A clip of Macron at France\u2019s Japan Expo event in 2025, where he met with Kazuhiko Torishima, Dragon Ball\u2019s<\/em> initial editor<\/p>\n Avec la l\u00e9gende Kazuhiko Torishima qui nous fait l\u2019honneur de sa pr\u00e9sence \u00e0 la Japan Expo. Vive la culture qui nous rapproche\u00a0! pic.twitter.com\/xi2aH9HWAf<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) July 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Following the press conference, Macron posted the kamehameha video to his Twitter account along with \u201cFusion\u201d written in Japanese<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u30d5\u30e5\u30fc\u30b8\u30e7\u30f3\uff01 pic.twitter.com\/8rz95S8Yzl<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, the French president didn\u2019t come all the way to Japan for anime fandom, and the main purpose of his visit is to discuss cooperation between the French and Japanese governments regarding rare earth and energy procurement. Still, the sudden kamehameha shows that their worldwide recognition and popularity grow, anime and manga continue to be prominent goodwill cultural ambassadors for Japan.<\/p>\n Source: Yomiuri Shimbun<\/a><\/em> Leaders of world powers strike energy blast pose. There\u2019s an interesting cultural question that pops up during international meetings in Japan: Should the participants shake hands at the end of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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