‘Barbenheimer’ nuclear memes stir anger in Japan

Barbie and Oppenheimer opened on the same weekend in the US.- AFP

TOKYO (Bloomberg: The double dose of American movie hits known as "Barbenheimer” is fuelling a social-media backlash in Japan, the only country to have experienced nuclear-weapon attacks.

The meme combining Oppenheimer, a biography of the inventor of the atomic bomb, and Barbie, a comedy about the fashion doll, had already been trending on X, formerly known as Twitter.