"Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:<ido3b.21$bL1.11@news1.dion.ne.jp>...
> "６ちゃん" <roku_cyan@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > i didnt watch them.
> > what is he called in your country?
> 
> It's Ronald McDonald in the UK, and I assumed that this was the same
> worldwide. Obviously not. Incidentally, the reason given for the name change
> was simply that "Ronald" was difficult to pronounce for Japanese speakers.

I always figured that in the early days of McD's in Japan some
advertising/marketing/etc. exec mispronounced it, and nobody wanted to
tell him he said it wrong.

John W.