User blog comment:Watermint/Human names v. Country names (Wiki)/@comment-2004850-20100708234239

I don't think there was an outright controversy. The episode came along and Tibet was just gone. The strip it adapted has not been published in a volume, but if Himaruya redraws it for another, there is a chance that he'll be cut. (If you haven't seen the picture for him, it's on the minor char. list gallery. Isn't he adorable?)

The ending may have been clipped for controversy reasons, or it could be one of those times where DEEN took away segments. Ceras might know more about it. It's hard to tell with those, just because it could be time issues or a decision that it was unneeded, rather than because it was deemed inappropriate.

EDIT: Okay, disregard my second comment above XD Yeah, DEEN did make some changes to Japan that I rather have left in. As a kid/teen, he was a bit of a jerk.