Mayor of remote town is Japan’s ‘Jo Baiden’

TOKYO (ANN): Meet Japan’s Joe Biden, the mayor of a remote town who has become an internet sensation for having a name that can be pronounced the same as that of the US president-elect.

Yutaka Umeda, the 73-year-old mayor of Yamato town (population: 15,000) in southwestern Japan, was watching the television coverage of the US vote count with his family when he first realized that the Chinese characters used to write his name could, if said differently, sound like “Joe Biden.”