At the time this must have seemed a brilliant face-saving compromise for Tokyo, but it has proved a public relations disaster.
Here are 17 brilliant faces Joe Biden made during the speech.
I'd come to see one of the strangest, the white uakari monkey with a brilliant red face.
Kate Winslet's performance is brilliant: her face is almost hyper-real, like a wide-eyed, full-lipped animation of wit, mischief, sensuality, and then dark hostility.
But when you look at the prison industrial complex and the new Jim Crow: levels of massive unemployment and the decrepit unemployment system, indecent housing: white supremacy is still operating in the US, even with a brilliant black face in a high place called the White House.
Look at the photographs: the brilliant, smiling faces of the young recruits; the dignified surety of the commanders; the brave faced mothers and wives waving handkerchiefs of farewell.
Instead, his work, like the writings of the historical Lobachevsky, provides evidence of how, often, brilliant minds facing similar problems develop similar ideas at similar times.
He painted an excellent, still extant profile of his mother, who was handsome and loving and his favorite, and a tortured, psychologically brilliant full-face portrait, also still preserved, of his bearded, middle-aged father, who is holding his head in his hand and frowning, without focus, in worry and disappointment.
