Disney's Alice offended all of Japan in a single tweet

The Walt Disney company did a poor job of bringing joy to people in Japan the other day, as it wished them congratulations on the worst possible day.

Disney's Alice offended all of Japan in a single tweet

The company’s Japanese Twitter account posted the following tweet, in which the Japanese text reads: "congratulations on a trifling [or not a special] day".

However, the tweet was sent on the anniversary of the Nagasaki nuclear bombing, as Japan commemorated its dead.

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