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How is the rest of the world press dealing with this "spectacle of shit"?

In addition to supraliteral translations such as くその穴の国々 used by an American-born celebrity writing in Japanese in Newsweek, and the WSJ's 便所のような国, there were some more creative options such as BuzzFeed's choice of 肥溜めのような国々.

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