Im Mittelpunkt all dieser Aufmerksamkeit stand Yusuke Kawai, der 45-jährige Vorsitzende der Nihon-Yamato-Partei und Mitglied der Gemeindeversammlung in Toda, Präfektur Saitama. Er war im Rahmen einer Reise nach Osaka gekommen "bundesweite gleichzeitige Demonstration gegen die Einwanderungspolitik" das er organisiert hat.
…Am Mikrofon wurde Kawai mit einer lauten Mischung aus Jubel und Protesten begrüßt und die gesamte Gegend schwankte am Rande des Chaos. Verärgert über die Proteste erklärte Kawai: "Antijapanische linke Gruppen behindern unsere Aktivitäten. Dies ist ein Kampf zwischen antijapanischen Kräften und dem japanischen Volk." Er fuhr fort: "Die Menschen, die uns behindern, haben ihre Wurzeln auf der koreanischen Halbinsel. Sie sind keine Japaner im eigentlichen Sinne."
Fördern solche Äußerungen Diskriminierung? Später am Telefon gefragt, erklärte Kawai: "Sie erfüllen nicht die Definition von Hassrede, und ich habe nichts Gewalttätiges gesagt. Zunächst einmal ist „Sabetsu“ oder Diskriminierung ein abstraktes japanisches Wort. Ist es nicht eine Frage der Interpretation jedes Einzelnen?"
Eine Frau, die sagte, sie stamme aus der Präfektur Gifu, behauptete: "Eine Bekannte wurde von muslimischen Männern vergewaltigt," und sagte, sie lehne den Bau einer Moschee in ihrer Gegend ab. "Die Japaner sind wirklich ernst und freundlich, aber diese Muslime haben nicht den geringsten Sinn für Ethik. Ich möchte den Islam demontieren," sagte sie. Wenn eine Straftat begangen wurde, sollte die strafrechtliche Verantwortung strikt geahndet werden, aber die Verleumdung von Muslimen insgesamt stellt eine schwere religiöse Diskriminierung dar.
Ein männlicher Mittelschüler, der die Flagge der aufgehenden Sonne um seinen Körper gewickelt hatte, sagte: "Ich erhalte eine antijapanische Erziehung. Sie bringen uns Dinge wie multikulturelles Zusammenleben und das Verständnis der islamischen Kultur in der Schule bei, und ich denke, sind sie dumm? Sie lehren auch Schlechtes über den Großostasiatischen Krieg (Zweiter Weltkrieg), und das kann ich nicht verzeihen." Die Erwachsenen um ihn herum applaudierten und sagten: "Das stimmt, das stimmt."
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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260729/p2a/00m/0na/016000c
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For every action is an equal and opposite reaction
Wolf Warrior tourism has caused a bit of backlash from the locals
Meanwhile, it’s only the CCP banning travel
I feel bad for the kid brainwashed by his parents.
These morons need a proper education. The kid’s school taught the right things, and we should applaud that.
Japan, are you okay?
You can only laugh. So those few brave Japanese rallying against discrimination are also quickly ‚othered‘ as being Korean and it’s a popular retort.
Lovely
Right has convinced these gullible ppl that dwindling population and crumbling economy is somehow the fault of immigrants who are actually a solution to their real problems.
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This is why civilized people shouldn’t live in a shithole like Osaka. The place should have been nuked out of existence
„They also teach bad things about the Great East Asia War“ – yeah, you mean like the very well documented truth that no other country denies?
„The people obstructing us have roots in the Korean peninsula“ Satire is truly dead
„They teach bad things about WW2.“
The Japanese Imperial Army raped, mutilated, executed, and raped countless victims during that war, what „good things“ about that period does he want to be taught?
> „The people obstructing us have roots on the Korean Peninsula. They are not Japanese in the true sense.“
In other words, they’re no true Japanesemen?
a sinking ship.
Are you telling me that a xenophobic rally reeks of hate? How could have thought that, besides the whole humanity?
If you can’t get your point across with logic, just make shit up and appeal to emotion.
Racist fuckin clowns
Saitama 😏
What kind of logic is that? Should we tear down all churches and shrines because I’m sure someone who is Christian and someone who follows Shintoism or Buddhism have raped someone as well.
Let them practice their religion but kick out the ones that misbehaves.
„shadows of hate, extremism“
Meanwhile Shinjuku has a very polite and peaceful FUCK TRUMP protest 24/7 every day and night.
It is worth pointing out, Islam is a “complete system”. That is inevitably not going to integrate with Japan’s equivalent “complete system”.
On a sociological, cultural, political level a level-headed open conversation is needed on the above reality.
Note, for contrast in the West with a Christian now Secular society, there is space for Islam to spread to and increase within (ie a void fills up) and reinfect moral and ethical dimensions where they have depleted.
Japan as stated already being highly collectivist society does not have these conditions.
As for most comments here, a lot of reacting emotions to a small visible group of activists is equivalent activism not argument from reality described accurately and sensibly discussed.
Again this is taking a more extreme cultural divergence eg Islam vs Japanese Culture, but within a broader wider argument on correct fit of Migration Policy for Japan which should also focus on Positives:
* “Which types of migrants should be focused on selectively that contribute positively and adapt and assimilate favourably to Japanese culture and society?”
Migration Policy itself must then with within the balance between:
* Economic needs with Population vs Consumption vs Environment recalibration long-term.
I see almost no evidence of sound basic setting out of the reality in this thread – merely agitators for drama and clicks by contrast. The above however provides an opportunity for sensible discussion be that reasoned disagreement or new information construction or merely contributory observation around the subject. Ultimately understanding increase is important to all.
What I think is deeply negative is failure of governments and global institutions to bring people along with their policy powers as part of natural democratic consensus from consent building via such as the above debates.
same people would lose their shit if there was some other bunch of idiots in another country going „fuck the japanese“
if she hates non japanese so much why is she wearing nike instead of something like onitsuka tiger?
This global tsunami of xenophobia will one day end, but not before it makes corpses of millions more.
So this is basically a fascist rally?
Well, from Japan’s perspective, it’s true that it could be seen as anti-Japanese education. There really is a need to learn it from a more neutral perspective.
I may be downvoted but I think there are legitimate concerns about Muslim immigration not only to Japan but to other countries such as Europe and Australia as well, where tensions around integration are obvious. Some Islamic communities tend to be highly insular, concentrated to one area and are resistant to cultural integration. If the immigrant’s religious, cultural, and social values — particularly around the treatment of women and queer people — are so divergent and incompatible with the host country’s, it’s not the host country’s obligation to accommodate them. I am not suggesting that Muslims in Japan are wearing burka or preventing female family members from going outside alone, or practicing genital mutilation, or stoning gay people to death as in Muslim theocracies. But I do think it is fair to recognize the hesitation of Japanese people at a Mosque being built in their community given that certain ethnic immigrant populations tend to form enclaves based around their own shared familial, cultural, and religious values, can resist integration, can be areas vulnerable to higher rates of crime, and can over time become established as areas overwhelmingly of a certain ethnicity to the point where existing populations can feel uncomfortable entering them. One only need to have come from a multicultural society to recognize and acknowledge the tensions that exist between some communities.
I am a strongly liberal person politically, a long term immigrant to Japan, and am disheartened by the rising temperature against immigration to Japan and the effect a right-wing populist government is having on the mood of the country. But I think it does a great disservice not to listen to and acknowledge the concerns Japanese people have regarding immigration. Within the mess of amplified fear, and misinformation are sometimes legitimate concerns and to dismiss those concerns as bigotry weakens the arguments against it.
I don’t think the host country should be expected to allow immigrant populations to build their own places of worship (and I think it should apply to any religion including Christian churches), and I think allowing populations of a single immigrant ethnicity to become established and insulated from the existing community is counterproductive to the social integration any nation would expect of its immigrants.
I know that the reality is, certain populations will gather in the areas they have been recruited to work and its on the local population to accommodate them, welcome them, and accept them, but those who choose to immigrate here should also understand that they must integrate and not expect they can recreate their own culture and remain insular from local culture, and given the paramount importance of mosques to Muslim people as the center of their cultural and religious life, it’s not unreasonable Japanese people feel uncomfortable about allowing them to built considering the strife and tensions that have resulting elsewhere in the world when immigrant culture and values collide with those of the host nation.