Post-election party scene was hot in Obama, Japan

Chicago’s Grant Park and New York’s Times Square might have had the big crowds, but residents of Obama, Japan, certainly had the big name.

Photo Gallery: Click here to see the Obama celebrations.

Obama, a city of 32,000 that had embarked on an “Obama for Obama” campaign, partied in Hawaiian garb in honor of the president-elect’s heritage, the Associated Press reports. There were Obama Girls (housewives doing the hula) amid a crowd of about 1,500.

Obama means “little beach” in Japanese, perfect for the onetime fishing town that relies “almost entirely on tourism,” according to the AP.

Related story: Click here to see the world reaction to Obama’s victory.

— Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times staff writer

[Photo: Toru Yamanaka, AFP/Getty Images]

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