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YouTube video of Japanese girl on an anti-Korean rant goes viral

Apr 03, 2013 Ida Torres National 131


YouTube video of Japanese girl on an anti-Korean rant goes viral

A young Japanese girl’s shocking anti-Korean rant during a protest in Osaka last February 24 was uploaded on YouTube yesterday. The video shows her openly expressing her hatred of Koreans, while being cheered on by her fellow protestors.

She is caught on video in a protest near Osaka’s Tsuruhashi Station, saying wants to kill all the Koreans living in the area, whom she referred to as “piece of crap”. She warned them that they should just go home to Korea before the Japanese people reach the end of their rope and kill them. She even made references to the Nanking Massacre, where an estimated 250,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese army in 1937, saying that there will be a repeat of this if the Koreans don’t leave Japan. Her words are appalling in itself, but is made even worse as the crowd cheers her on while she screams “go home” and “this is not your country”.

Anti-Korean protests by ultra nationalistic groups like that are nothing new, but they have been increasing in frequency the past few months. Just last week, a street protest was held in one of the biggest Korean neighborhoods near Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Protestors walked around carrying signs that said “Go back to Korea!” and calling them “cockroaches”. The twist in this was that their protest was met by a large group of pro-Korean Japanese people who had their own slogans saying, “You are the shame of this country!”, “You’re the ones who need to go home!”, and “Get back to the Internet where you belong!” (in reference to the web-based nature of most of these anti-Korean sentiments).

Given the incendiary nature of this latest video, it wouldn’t be surprising if this goes viral, creating a whole new “conversation” between those who support the anti-Korean protestors, the Japanese citizens who abhor this kind of sentiments, and ordinary people who think this behaviour is unacceptable.

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  • Japanese anti-Korean protesters get a dose of own medicine

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  • Nationalism, Netouyo, Osaka, Protest, South Korea, Tokyo, Viral video, YouTube
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  • -observer-

    This stupid girl brings shame to the japanese people. Japanese people ive met are peaceful and tolerant.

    • Far East

      Absolutely. The poor girl. I pity her. Completely brainwashed.

      • -observer-

        Happens all over the world
        http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/racist-rant-not-the-first-time-ive-been-abused-says-victim-20130403-2h6oh.html

        • Far East

          Still, it does not make me feel any better. I am sadden when I see this happen, be it in Japan, China or South Korea.
          This is blinded hatred due to brainwashing. If she had even a little bit of perspective, she would never say that. I’d like her to meet people who actually lived during the war to hear what they have to say to her.

    • Andrew

      NOT THE ONES I’VE MET.

      • Nancy

        That’s very sad to hear such thing from foreigners, but I know we have exact reasons to bear with, especially in front of this kind of video scene, still try to do my things to go, to show you how far we could make it better, thank you.

    • Truth

      I have not the time to watch all the event right now (I posted the link but the comment has yet to be moderated) but it seems to be something to do with Takeshima Day, so no wonder the Korea edited out the context.

      The same day in Seoul, another crazy Korea stabbed themselves in the stomach and they threw human feces at the Japanese embassy.

      Remember, between 1952 and 1965, Korea killed 44 Japanese fishermen and abducted about 4,000 to establish their illegal occupation before you decide what is “shameful” or “extreme”.

      • Kguy

        And Japan raped and murdered too many Koreans to count when they occupied Korea.

        • Truth

          … And does that make it OK to kill someone else, completely innocent and unconnected, decades later?

          • doctorshankar

            Human nature perhaps is like that. The leaders are misguiding the citizens whether in Japan or Korea.
            Dr. K. Shankar

      • 950619

        threw human feces?????? o_O

    • Truth

      Google 2月24日 日韓国交断絶国民大行進 in 鶴橋.

      I filling in a few details but the comments keep disappearing.

      It seems to be on Takeshima Day (24 February), hence the Korean interest and why thefull context is edited out.

      Remember South Korea killed 44 Japanese fishermen and abducted nearly 4,000 to establish their illegal occupation before deciding what is “shameful” or “extreme”.

    • Truth

      Google 2月24日 日韓国交断絶国民大行進 in 鶴橋.

      I filled in a few details but the comments keep disappearing.

      It seems to be on Takeshima Day (24 February), hence the Korean interest and why thefull context is edited out.

      Remember South Korea killed 44 Japanese fishermen and abducted nearly 4,000 to establish their illegal occupation before deciding what is “shameful” or “extreme”.

    • Truth

      Google 2月24日 日韓国交断絶国民大行進 in 鶴橋.

      I filling in a few details but the comments keep disappearing.

      It seems to be on Takeshima Day (24 February), hence the Korean interest and why thefull context is edited out.

      Remember South Korea killed 44 Japanese fishermen and abducted nearly 4,000 to establish their illegal occupation before deciding what is “shameful” or “extreme”.

    • Truth

      Is someone instantly deleting my posts or is there a technical fault?

      If the first case, why?

    • Allen Scott Hood

      to your face yes, but they are the nicest bunch of racists you’ll ever meet.

      • Truth

        Their campaign is not racist.

        Their issue is about the removal of “Special Privileges for Koreans born in Japan” that ordinary Japanese people, and other foreigners, do not enjoy.

        Privileges that have been further exploited by a small minority with criminal connection and has financially supported the terrorist state of North Korea which is currently threatening Japan.

        Is that really so unreasonable? The people we are talking about have literally financed and supplied parts for North Korea’s nuclear missile programme aimed at Japan.

        • harryspaz

          Did you not watch the video?! SHE SAID THEY WOULD MASSACRE ALL THE KOREANS LIVING THERE! Yes, that’s “really so unreasonable”!

  • Far East

    I have this great idea: why don’t we put all those right wing extremists from Japan, China and South Korea, and other Asian countries in a field and let them put their actions where their mouth is. That will be that much less idiots this planet will have to bear.

    • Ewdison Then

      I agree, sadly, it is still true to today that racial hate by right wingers exists in any country.

      • Truth

        Ewdison, you need to understand the situation better first.

        • Ewdison Then

          oh I understand the situation clearly. No one in right mind would condone killing or threats to another human being. Being in military before I know that for a fact.

          • Truth

            What do you know or understand about the situation with these Korea groups?

            In short, read my longer comment below.

            They’re not “condoning killing”. They’re just breaking some big taboos … Kansai style. These a genuine problem on the other side, which isn’t being discussed, and people have just had enough of it.

          • Chinditone3

            “Love your neighbour as yourself” is the very foundation of all human relationships . Sadly – Right Wing behaviour and a lack of love and respect for others is found all across Russia. Europe, and the USA as well. Usually – these Right Wing groups are always minoritories and are well policed by the Country in question.

          • Ewdison Then

            Sadly it is a passed down mentality. Most of the Japanese I have met have no ill feeling towards neighboring countries, I even know several die hard Korean fan, albeit they are the young generation, same as many of my Chinese friends who love Japan and some even move here to work.

            I think government on all sides should stop escalating the issues, it won’t happen until both comes to a table and discuss it out like a civil party. White washing, pointing finger, hot headed takes us no where.

          • doctorshankar

            a very strange defense indeed!
            Dr. K. Shankar

          • Truth

            It’s not at a governmental level in Japan. It most certainly is in Korea and China. Indeed, it could not happen in China without government and police sanctioning, as we say with the recent state coordinated, anti-Japanese rioting in China.

            In Japan, these problems arise from the grassroots level and the conduct and modus operandi of certain Korean groups (not all).

            Ordinary Japanese people have every right to be upset at the unequal treatment they receive in comparison to groups which refuse to accept full responsibilities as citizens; literally, they refuse citizenship whilst exploiting higher social benefits and privileges and the reason they do so is not for any moral or ethical reasons but, purely, for personal gain.

            Much of the issue boils down to a single factor. These Koreans refuse to take Japanese citizenship and their demand to have dual citizenship which the law does not allow. They are actually Japanese. They were born in Japan, they speak Japanese, they cannot even go back to North Korea … so why do they refuse to accept Japanese citizenship and exploit the benefit of society?

            I suspect the reason is purely financial. They won’t to cover both bases. They are involved in sending money back to Korea and if, at some point, the Korean situation is resolved, perhaps they will be able to go back there and have a far more privileged lifestyle on the basis of the disparity between the economic values. Make no mistake it in, their quality of life is much higher in Japan and the value of their money is also much greater.

            Would such a situation be tolerated in other countries?

          • doctorshankar

            s. you are right.
            Dr. K. Shankar

          • Truth

            The West attempt to portray Japan as leaning to the “extreme right wing”, as we read time and time again here. Actually, it is incredible tolerant and patient, and the reality of the situation is that ‘some’ Korean groups, as with ‘some’ dowa groups, are exploiting the system and colluding together, with organized crime, to do so.

            It is these ‘specific’ groups that people are upset, not ‘all’ Koreans or ‘all foreigners.

            Like I say, unlike you start to understand the dynamics, and see the full picture rather than a cherry picked clip, you won’t understand what is going on.

            The unequal preferential treatment affording to these people in real money and advantages is a fact. You don’t read about that. The upset at this from ordinary people is also a fact, especially as these very same groups are highly vocal or active in their criticisms of Japan and Japanese.

            They are, in short, biters of the hand that is feeding them.

            To portray protesters as being in the same ilk as American or European neo-Nazi is entirely wrong.

          • Nancy

            Well, seems it’s time your make up has been all removed out,

            “They are, in short, biters of the hand that is feeding them”

            …are you a son of Sugako Hashida?
            She doesn’t have any son in my understanding.
            Also, when would long term resident Korean people end up with being your house dog?
            Never heard of.
            Stop kidding on right now, you’re just painting our faces dirt around, really annoying.
            Y O U A R E N O T O U R D E L E G A T E.
            Understood?

            Zaitokukai is quite a same group with Neo Nazi, in the meaning of having their principles as racial superiority, I don’t see any defference between them, how have you found such thing which I can’t see, or doesn’t exist?

          • Chinditone3

            Well – if you look at tge National level clearly – the US did not act honourably during the World War 2 Japanese war crimainla trails – so there is still a bit of work to do between Japan and South Korea and Japan and China. Germany managed to make peace with its former enemies – but those who suffered at the hands of the Germans during World War 2 are still reluctant to forgive. Healing and forgiveness takes time – and work on both sides.

            The issue with Chinese Nationalism is China punishing Japan for breaking an the Deng Xioa Ping “silent negotiation agreement” over the Diaoyou’s and to remind Japan that China owns the Diayou Islands and has done so historically. Fair enough – Japan has to keep its word and agreements – and not behave like a thief. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Senkaku+Islands+should+remain+Japan-China+issue%3A+Kissinger.-a0307073556

            The Dodko issue with Korea is similar in that Korea has ancient historical claims and Japan grabbed them recently – as with teh Diaoyou. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liancourt_Rocks

            A deeper reason is that both South Korea and China are economic rivals to Japan – and Japan is just using these issues for political purposes. It is similar to the US approach of trying to intimidate and surround China in its Pivot approach. My own view is that the Jpanese and US approach are out of date Cold War relics – and will fail.

      • Just commenting

        This is just the tip of the iceberg. The rise of right wing politics, Yasukuni shrine, textbook revisions, rewriting history, Nanjing masssacre denial, recalcitrant nationalism over the Senkakus, etc. etc, are all part of the symptomolgy of rising rabid nationalism in Japan. For a democracy, the country should know better. For a purported ally of the USA, it should do much better when it comes to coming to terms with its own history. Unfortunately, it does not. This ranting girl likely represents a good portion of the Japanese people, most of whom for now, choose to remain quiet, but deep down look askance on certain peoples. I won’t be surprised that when the time comes, they’ll be looking askance at Americans too. And here you go, keep supporting the Yasukuni shrine and excusing historical whitewashing. Before you know it, the Japanese will start thinking Japan’s role in WW2 was good and America is evil.

        • Truth

          America’s stated aims, stated by its politician and military leaders and not my interpretation, were always the political and economic dominance of the Pacific-Asian region.

          The beneficiaries of American Imperial conquest and hegemony were always its White banking establishment and White dominated corporations. Not the American people they use as slaves and certain not Asian people who they use as even cheaper slaves.

          What right does American have to be over the other side of the Pacific kicking in other people’s doors and telling them how to rule their nation?

          Japan at least wanted Asia to be for Asians and to kick out the White Imperialists and to some extent it was successful. The European Imperialist were kicked out of Asia … unfortunately to be temporarily replaced with American ones.

          However, that will change over the next 50 years or so as the power and wealth balance in the world swings back to Asia.

          No, Zaitokukai are not representative of the vast majority of Japanese who have no interest in these issue and they are dislike and disrespected for their extremism.

          Yes, Corporate America and its mercenaries are widely considered to be evil.

          Quote Major General Smedley Butler USMC retired;

          “War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

          I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

          I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

          Smedley stated how, like all the members of the military profession, he “never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders” and ended up believing in an “adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else”. pointing out how when America can only earn at little bit at home it “gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent”.

          • Just commenting

            Look at Truth’s comments,
            See what I mean? In a generation from now, Japanese whitewashing of their history will continue until it’s the Americans who are evil. If there is no Nanjing massacre, if Japan did not kill that many Chinese or Koreans, if Japan is the liberator during WW2, and it’s the Chinese who were corrupt and evil, then why American involvement in WW2? See the logic? And then, Americans, you can kiss your asses good-bye in Japan.

          • Truth

            There was a different name using the “Americans is evil” argument just shortly ago are you also them?

            Why American involvement in WWII? Numerous American statesmen and woman have clearly stated why over the last 100 years — the goal was American hegemonic rule over the Asia Pacific region. Clinton repeated it just a few months ago.

            America is aware that the Sun is rising on Asia, and in the next 50 years it will become the economic powerhouse, power shifting away from the USA.

            It wants its cut or financial commission and to protect its own economy.

            If you can ask a better or more clear question, I will give you a better answer. However, the subject of this topic is anti-Korean sentiment.

            It’s not that history is being whitewashed, it is that history is being refined and made clear for the first time. It’s the propaganda version which is being rejected.

            Many Americans, having been made subject to intense and racist brainwashing of these issues towards Japan, find that hard to understand, e.g. to accept that American was already involved in WWII before Pearl Harbor, Japan was a set up to make it appear it had fired the first shot and so on.

          • etiennes

            The sun is rising in China and South East Asia, but surely not Japan. Printing money is not going to save the economy long term.

          • etiennes

            Japan started a war – Japan lost a war. History (and constitutions) are written by the victors, not the losers.
            Germany had its constitution written by the victors too – and look at them – they apologized properly, looked forward, and are now a powerful country, in friendship with the nations they were at war with. There are no issues about islands in the North Sea or Atlantic, as far as I can tell.
            Why was Germany able to move to the future, and Japan, in 2013 is still stuck in the past?

      • Hatcherbabygirl

        I consider myself a right winger but have never been called a racist. I wonder where you get your “facts.”

    • Andrew

      YES!!!!

    • Cristian HMC

      Are there right wing extremist in China????. I thought China was a Communist country, right??. LOL You should talk about the genocidal Maoist ideology in China. Free Tibet. Free Uyguria. Free Taiwan. Free Inner Mongolia. China must be desintegrated like the former Soviet Union. 😀 Death 4 Chinazism!!!. Yeahh!!!!!! 😀

      • Far East

        That’s because China only claims to be communist, but in reality, it has little to do with communism and everything to do with dictatorship or kind of. A big chunk of the Chinese lawmakers make actually more money than Mitt Romney, the former U.S. Presidential candidate….
        Nationalist extremists are just the same everywhere I guess.

  • Truth

    Far East ,

    She’s not a girl, she’s a woman and I would not say this is “blind hatred due to brainwashing”.

    There are fairly good reasons for anti-Korean sentiments within Japan, not just due to the constant hectoring of South Koreans, the military threats of North Koreans and the exploitation of Japan society by ‘some’ of the Zainichi Korean groups.

    Note my emphasis on ‘some’. I would guess the majority of Zainichi Korean made their decision to stay in Japan after the war, are happy with it and have merged with society. Some native Koreans even come to Japan, because the quality of life is higher, marry and enjoy it.

    However, there are some Zainichi Korean groups, especially those with links to North Korea that have not, exploit being in Japan and exploit the ambiguity and benefits of their position. (There are also criminal and semi-criminal elements, e.g. with the pachinko and gambling worlds sending back money to support the North Korean regime which I am sure none of you would admonish).

    It’s easy to kneejerk to the assumption that this is merely unreasonable racism but it’s not. These particular groups are something akin to what Americans would call “Race Hucksters”, that is to say they are doing nothing but exploiting their Korean-ness for the sake of personal, financial and political benefits which the average law abiding native Japanese does not get.

    These include superior social benefits, financial grants, preferential planning, special education treatment and so on. They engage in anti-social or semi-criminal activities and then hide behind their Korean-ness to deflect from criticism and, at the root of it, they refuse to take or accept the legally require Japanese nationality. They insist on wanting dual nationality even though the law, for reasonable reasons in Japan’s case, does not allow it.

    In short, they want to come along for the ride, in the best seats, and not pay for the ticket.

    Anyone promoting the North Korean Regime like Chongryon, whose building sale we read of recent, has to be sick or on the skim. In some of their leaders’ cases, the answer has to be both. Arguably, the “collapse” of their banks and so on was just another financial fraud which the Japanese government (tax payers) pay for. And, as we know, there is the unresolved issue of North Korean agents kidnapped Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

    • Truth

      Most Japanese, in fact probably all Japanese, know what these particular groups are like (and we all know the type of sentiments Japan faces from Koreans internationally) but cannot or will not say anything for fear or criticism of incrimination afterwards. It is the same as if a White person was to criticize Black race hucksters in the USA.

      There are valid criticisms against the conduct of these Korean groups to be made.

      They should adopt the laws of the land, or leave.
      There are valid societal re-adjustments to be made.

      Unfortunately, it is not the majority Japanese’s habit to speak out and so they adopt patience and the attitude of “shikata ga nai”, ‘nothing can be done about it’.

      Young Korean-Japanese are also moving on away from these groups.

      However, Japan is a relative free society and in a free society there is freedom of speech. I actually think it is a far better thing for all this to be expressed ‘out’ rather than bottled ‘in’.

      One can dispute the effectiveness of how it is being expressed but what you are finally seeing is a firm, “we’ve had enough of your crap” from ordinary Japanese. It’s not simple “racism”.

      Foreigners to Japan do not know or understand the full history and context of all this right down to the small and sometime bizarre details like the domination of the cash-based pachinko gambling industry by North Korean sympathizers and why so many of their pachinko lounges are near or opposite railways (post-war land grabs by gangs).

      Although I do not know, I suspect this is ‘Team Kansai’ who have connections with the ‘internet right’ Shuken Kaifuku group.

      Again, it’s easy for foreigners to kneejerk and say “ultra right-wing, nationalist group” but there’s more to it than that.

      If it is ‘Team Kansai’, those guys are pranksters and what they are doing here is breaking taboos and saying “enough is enough”.

      • doctorshankar

        i am really surprised and shocked at these Japanese pent up hatred and anger as the tendency for violence and killing!
        Dr. K. Shankar

    • Whirled Peas

      Truth. It was difficult to watch this video, though I watched it six times to make sure I understood what was going on.. Hearing this middle school student express so much raw anger at Koreans and even talking about killing them is disturbing. I hope she will eventually meet some adults/teachers who can help her to grapple with inter-ethnic conflict to a positive end, not be consumed by it or become destructive.. You have provided some context in which to understand the dynamics between Japanese and Koreans in Japan, one extreme result of which we see in the video. You’ve given us some of the reasons that Japanese might feel resentment toward Koreans (spoken or unspoken, tempered or extreme). People who have had positive experiences with people from a certain group don’t usually go off on rants like that. My thought was this teen has had some bad experiences with Koreans and Korean issues. Maybe this teen has reached her limit with stories of comfort women and WWII and endless demands for more apologies and money. And maybe she has not been fortunate enough to meet wonderful, broad-minded Koreans, but only some who treat her rudely and arrogantly because they can get away with it. After all, our impression of other groups is mostly based on personal interaction with a limited sample. Paradoxically, it is sometimes the most seemingly-tolerant people who don’t have to experience the hurtful underbelly of inter-group conflict. This teen sounds not only angry but frustrated and hurt. I don’t think she will be easily convinced to change her outlook by telling her we should love each other or be tolerant of differences (though I support those counter-voices)., She needs to have a critical number of positive interactions with Koreans to outweigh the negative ones.

    • Nancy

      “Truth”, that kind of stupid HN straightly tells me how you are, you must be one of ugly dirty Japanese Netouyo, yeah I’ve learned much about how “truth” kind of words are loved by Netouyo, as you Netouyo people truely believe that there’s literally everything contained on the internet, though any of you have ever got no truth but distortion or forger.
      Well, listen carefully, there’s no reason to spit around hate speech, never.

      Farely or not, what that crap, are you kidding, hate speech is never justified.
      If you were going to keep your own human rights, you have to do the same thing in front of any other individual, so does this poor girl, there’s no exception admitted.
      Human rights, how have you ever understood about it untill now, guess you never, haven’t you?
      The rights are not your exclusive posession, or anyone’s only whom you recommend to, why don’t you understand it as one of educated, matured, civilized individuals?
      Otherwise, if you’re not?

      • Taiwanese

        The best response to “Netouyo” so far.

        The same principle applies to other country’s Netouyo.

        Hope you can come here and express yourself more often!

        • Nancy

          Thank you for your sincere reflection.
          Me and my folks have been trying to stand against these of Netouyo’s overwhelming hate speeches on Japanese internet area, just voluntary, still we’re less existed than Netouyo’s huge number of posting rush.
          See, “Truth”something guy must got caught in his delusion at all, and just started thinking about me “She looks an obvious kind of anti-Japan agent”“I’ve been hit by exact evil since it’s pure truth what I’ve said”“They have sent an agent ’cause they’ve been confused by my remarks to reveal the truth”, just like that, these are very common views to be seen on Japanese internet area, here and there, day by day, simply a chaos.
          I’m now quitting Japanese writing on the internet for some reason, almost all of it but few exceptions.
          It’s quite embarrassing to show this kind of mess to the world, by the way, we have much appreciated you Taiwan people’s help, when that earthquake had happened, we always be going to count on you now or ever, please tell your people our best regards.

          • Taiwanese

            Best wishes to your writing.

            It seems to me that you are fond of cultural things, that’s great!

            Recently I watched the movie Wolf Children (おおかみこどもの雨と雪 Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki ). It deeply reflects the japanese ideal about humanity.

            I do think that globalization and Internet can bring more people to appreciate other’s culture. Cultural exchanges plays a very important role for all of us.

            As a Taiwan Chinese, I highly recommend you to watch Ang Lee’s early work such as “The Wedding Banquet (喜宴), Eat Drink Man Woman (飲食男女) and Pushing Hands(推手)

            I believe you will enjoy them as much as I enjoy Wolf Children.

            Thank you!

          • Nancy

            No no, I’m not that kind of cultural person, just a boring normal Japanese woman, but thank you, you’re so sweet.
            Sorry, I haven’t watched that Japanese animation movie, seems it has presented last year, maybe I missed it since I rarely see animations usually, but it’s good to hear from you if this one moved you so much.
            And about Mr.Ang Lee, now he’s one of the greatest director in the world, I’ve seen his film of Broke Back Mountain, which was awarded, it’s very impressive work to try something that no one ever could, or prefer to do, also his way of nature depiction is really really great.
            I’d like to watch the other movies you recommended, if I have a chance in occasion.

            As you say, cultural exchange should be thought about more grateful, beside still serious lack exists in Japan, in my feeling, it might be related to less language capability of our nationals, of course I’m not an exception but trying, they seems satisfied or comfortable just being held around our own langage, this problem would be very difficult to improve in short term.

      • Truth

        Solve the problem by making the Korean-Japanese follow the laws, or give the Japanese-Japanese the same rights.

        Don’t distract from the real issue which you completely ignore. That is the most ignorant and insulting thing to do.

        You have no rights as a politically correct ‘word police’. It’s just another form of cultural imperialism.

        Personally, I am not offended by rude words and, if you read what I wrote, you will see that I clearly said their spoken language was rough and counterproductive. They are not representative of ordinary Japanese.

        However, their message is correct. The Korean-Japanese are exploiting the system and financially support North Korea … who is currently threatening a nuclear attack.

        I’ll tell you how — the Japanese government has recently set limits on how much money Koreans can send home to avoid paying tax on it. That upset them. I upset them twice because all the money send home is “taxed” by North Korean government officials. Not everything they send gets to their families or criminal gangs.

        North Korea has still not returned all the Japanese, women and schools that they abducted to train their spies, so if you are talking “human rights” talk about them to North Korea.

        People will laugh at you for trying. In North Korea they will imprison you.

        Beside, you don’t understand how Japanese are. Such noisy protests mean nothing. They happen all the time. Japan is actually quite a noisy place, people have the ability to just filter out such things … shikata ga nai.

        • Nancy

          Well, Netouyo boy, have you already awoken from a bad dream?
          Still not?

          “Beside, you don’t understand how Japanese are”,
          sorry, I do understand how we are, than any of brain-washed racist Netouyo guys.
          We are a clan of shame, for tolerating such kind of awful racial discrimination.

          You have to stop doing many things-
          to intentionally mix with the issues about North and South Korea, these are not the same country as everyone knows,
          to intentionally mix the abduction issue with racistic abuse or prejudice against long term resident Korean people,
          to intentionally mix some vulgar foreigners with other decent ones,
          to intentionally mix the recent North Korea atitude with long term resident people’s behaviors,
          to spell “Japan”or “Japanese”instead of “me”or “myself”,
          to intentionally disregard the difference between criticism and violation,
          to be suspicious of my identity that if I’m a foreign agent who sent from some anti-Japan syndicate,
          to addict to Internet, reading a book is better,
          to keep searching around the information only which might please you, all day through,
          to be up all night long in front of your monitor,
          to stop thinking about yourself as a true revelator,
          to blame any of foreign people in the sake of your unhappy life,

          I think you might be changed when these things are all quitted up.
          Then you would start to say something different, quite different from one you’re claiming now.
          The unhappiness kind of feeling which you’ve got caught on, are nothing to do with foreign people’s fault.
          Human rights which you’re owning since you were born, belongs to every other individual’s hand too, let you start from there.

          • Truth

            ‘Human rights’, and the benefit they bring, come hand in hand with ‘human responsibilities’ and are paid for by the labor of other human beings who play by the rules of society.

            I am sorry. I just explained to you that I am not right wing and agreed with most of what you have reported or said.

            Why would you want to insult and provoke me by calling “internet right wing” immediately afterwards? Please snap out of your dream world for a minute.

            As you will know, Zainichi Koreans can have allegiances to either North or South Korea and there are very real reasons for the government to have recently placed financial limitations to the amount of money going out of Japan to feed the dictatorial regime in North Korea.

            Prejudices, whether real or imagined, and the legal issues involved here are two separate issues.

            One can be prejudiced or not, but it is matter of fact that some of Zainichi Koreans (not all) are challenging or exploiting the law over the issue of nationality — for the sake of personal and financial benefit alone.

            It’s not a nationalistic issue. Native Japanese do not have those “human rights”, so if you are preaching “equality”, make native Japanese equal to the Zainichi (not just Koreans but also Filipino etc too).

            As you will know, but most foreigners will not, the dispute is over the matter of Zainichi Koreans refusing to renounce Korean nationality and accepting Japanese nationality, despite having living in Japan for three generations; and their desire to have dual nationality — which Japanese law does not allow for anyone — and continue to exploit the financial benefits being a foreigner brings.

            Why do they refuse to take Japanese nationality? Because they make more money and have additional benefits if they do not.

            It’s not even really about being Korea. It’s just the the Koreans came try to manipulate and exploit war time guilt. Other foreigners can also escape paying taxes by claiming they are sending their money back home too. Japanese even have to pay tax on overseas earnings while they do not.

            Yes, I know, to not look at the facts and to live in a utopian dream world is a wonderful way of not upsetting yourself. Ignorance is bliss, they say.

            However, others feel responsibility for society.

            Perhaps you are not even old enough to pay taxes and support yourself yet?

          • Nancy

            Well, have you already made up your mind to confirm which nationality I deserve?
            Not yet?
            It’d be better if there’s more option you add to offer.
            …Do you really think that it’s not insane?
            That what you’re trying to assume what exactly Nancy means or my nationality is?
            How would you believe you’re not insane?
            No one in here has a doubt when I introduce myself as a Japanese, why do you have one?
            I know why, you’re expecting all the time if “anti-Japan syndicate” send you an agent to disturb.
            No other reason might be there for you.

            You have no understanding of human rights, the more you speak, the more it has been exposed, people laugh, why don’t you notice a bit?

            Who keeps insulting and provoking, is you, not me.
            You’re insulting not only foreigners, but also our name, Japan.
            You’re annoying us portraying like a delegate of us, spitting forgerys, covering awful racists group, it’d never be tolerated, that’s why I’m coming here, understood?

            How could you define “native Japanese”?
            This is a really common stupid idea of Netouyo, so I’m never surprised.
            Who would define what“native Japanese”as to be? You? And when?
            How could I find where it has been written out?
            Never heard of.
            Or, how is it possible?
            Is it not enough for you if having a nationality certification? As Japanese Koseki?
            Why are you not enough of someone having a Koseki?
            How could it be discriminated from one to another?
            By blood?
            You’re nuts.
            Are you a Hitler kind?

            I’m going to tell you something, the more you insult me, like “Perhaps you are not even old enough to pay taxes and support yourself yet?”, the more people in here notice how you’re strange, or not decent.

          • Truth

            Your thinking is very shallow and reactionary and you are insulting in an immature manner. As you insist on insulting me many time, I don’t mind saying so.

            I know how many young women are パラサイトシングル these days. If I am making the wrong assumption, please correct me. Actually, at first I thought you were a teenager.

            I’ve never heard of a Japanese woman called “Nancy” before. Perhaps you are a “banana” wannabe type (yellow on the outside, but likes to think they are white on the inside).

            Nancy, if you want to talk intelligently, reasonably and sympathetically about these issues, then I am very happy to do so.

            If you want to trade insults and be silly, then I am very happy to join you in doing so to.

            How is your mother these days『一卵性母娘』?

          • Nancy

            Wow, you’re creepy.
            Creepy as same as every other Netouyo would be.

            You’re so sorry man having such an awful misogyny.
            I wonder, you might have been told by some female individual like “KIMOI”or “KISHOI”, guess not so few times, haven’t you? Maybe “KIMOCHIWARUI”?
            But, don’t mind, you’re not the only one who’s creepy, and misogynous.

            I can recommend you many of creepy Netouyo guys, as to be your friends, if only you like me to do so. Anytime.

            Let me hear your recent comment about Satoshi Katsurada’s arresting, who’s a member of Team Kansai, which you recommended before as “Kansai Style”or something.
            Could you?
            You’re responsible for defending them as saying that they’re like a“reasonable defense doing citizens”, aren’t you?

            By the way, how about the “complaint of my misdemeanor”, is it accepted?
            You had better hurry up if it’s been not appealed yet.

          • Nancy

            Truthless man, you Netouyo,
            Your xenophobia, is really worse, everyone in here might have been embarrassed by your kind of stupid remarks, especially me, quite a shame.
            Have you ever checked the Houmukyoku’s amount of foreign population?
            Are you aware of how few Koreans are existing, and decreasing annually?
            Why don’t you take it as it is shown to tell, that younger Koreans prefer to choose to be naturalized, elder people are dying, it must be a rational perspective, yours is not.
            Same thing should be applied to the allowance thing, “natural way of perspective”, if 4 or 5 times bigger than Japanese, we have to think why.
            In natural way, since lot of them are old enough to work, and no pention, few relatives, since they have been put on the lower side of society all those years, ’cause our society likes to do so always, so there are many Korean people existed having no other way, and many of them are going to decease by every year.
            Exception thing always happens within ourselves too, it’s not going to come up with a severe deterrent as you take, it’s a kind of persecution mania.
            Budget size of allowance itself, or how actual bigger the Korean’s taking, these should be correctly recognized as it is, not with a narrow minded way as you do.
            I’m not referring any sites since it’s very easy to find it if only you like to do.

            “Zainichi Koreans can have allegiances to either North or South Korea”

            Oh, how did you make it sure, have you made any interview with them, though having such awful xenophobia, and no Korean friends I assume?

          • Truth

            To discuss an issue, and aspire to a better understanding of it, is not to support it. Why are you afraid of discussing the truth of the matter?

            You don’t address the Special Act and ignore such evidence as the highly disproportionate involved with violent criminal gang,

            We are not talking about the sangokujin issue here, we are talking about an established community, who want to be in Japan, exploiting Japanese society and the law for their own legal and financial benefits. And for the benefit of a dictatorial regime that is threatening Japan. It’s as simple as that.

            The overwhelming majority of Zainichi Koreans in Japan are still legally foreigners with foreign passports. In truth, they are as Japanese as any Japanese person but yet they seek to exploit the situation in a way an ordinary, law abiding Japanese cannot.

            10,000 illegal Koreans are sent back home each year adding to the burden on Japanese society. This is likely to be the tip of an iceberg, especially if we look at the sex and “entertainment industry”. There are an estimated 50,000 Korean prostitutes in Japan some trafficked, most on “entertainer’s visa”, but providing deri deri style sex for sale. If you live in a big city, like Osaka, your letterbox will be flooded by cards providing home delivery sex. It is a business run by crime gangs.

            Osaka is erupting as a center of this dispute because more than 50% of Zainichi Koreans live in the Kinki area. Kansai also has a more colorful, expressive and outspoken culture within Japan.

            As a very rough generalization, Kansai people can shock Tokyo people. Kansai media will cover topics Tokyo considers absolutely taboo and will suppress and so on.

            Fact, Zainichi Koreans have high rates of unemployment, twice as high as Japanese, and claim benefits. They tend to segregate more than other ethnic groups. They will also not take lower paying jobs that Zainichi Chūgokujin (Chinese) will take who they look down upon. Chinese unemployment is on a par with Japanese.

            Highest rates of employment tend to be employed in the Pachinko and gambling business which, frankly, are a cancer on Japanese society.

            Of 120,000 married males, 85,000 take Korean wives (approx, 2000 figures) and so integration is not strong (few take Chinese wives, < 250).

            There tend to be endless conflicts between Mindan (South) and Jochongryun (North) Zainichi Koreans which create discomfort and a lack of empathy within Japanese. Their personality is different from Japanese personality due to cultural factors in Korea.

            Yes, the population is decreasing, I suspect because the economy in South Korea has improved so much.

            This is not to criticize, but it is to provide a factual, even in only partially so, background for the dispute.

            Unfortunately, in Japan, there is a vocal but naive left wing importing ideas and values from America and elsewhere which are theoretical and incomplete. Japan has a different set of conditions to deal with.

            I think most people would agree equality and non-discrimination is a good thing, but that it should also go both ways.

            You cannot demand equality and non-discrimination and at the same time refuse to give up additional privileges.

            That is not "equality", it is just asking for more unequality.

          • Truth

            It is also worth stating, for the sake of accuracy, that nationalism in Japan does not go one way. Both Sōren/Jochongryun and Mindan have rigid anti-assimilationist/nationalist stance and emphasizing that Zainichi Koreans identify as Koreans above all else.

            It is almost as if they want to be in Japan for the social and economic benefits of Japanese society, but live in a separate Korean state.

            Naturalization for them is a taboo and a betrayal of Korean nationalism and they adopt an antagonistic relationship towards the Japanese government.

          • etiennes

            Wow, you really need a bloody revolution in Japan. I don’t see how you will ever get rid of fascist elements any other way.

    • Nancy

      Oh, I almost forgot something,

      She’s not a girl, she’s a woman and I would not say this is “blind hatred due to brainwashing”.

      Well, how do you define 14years old girl, second grade of junior high, as a “woman”, I desperately like to hear your rational explanation, I prefer to not expose her name though I’ve found it, also found her as a daughter of some awful extremist man, guess you already knew.
      Give me your kind of explanation.

      • Truth

        Nancy, the moderators have not allowed by comment. I answered this question but it had a video link in it.

        The short answer is, the video was taken from behind and I mistook her for another well known female protestor Netouyo who has two very outstanding attributes.

        Search Youtube for ”
        8/14いい加減にしろフジテレビ! 韓流なんていらない渋谷街宣3-3″.

    • harryspaz

      Your post sounds reasonable, when read out of context. Unfortunately, the context is a group of people threatening to MASSACRE an entire ethnic group.

  • Nancy

    This is one of horrible terrible mistakes we Japanese ever made, let me say
    something about this ugly racistic activity happening in my country, especially
    aimed for long term resident people, the foreigners being here before WW2 or
    their descendants, of course they’re collateral victims of the colonization on
    that age, nothing to do with few exceptions if observed or not.
    My address is just like this, Zaitokukai, they’re none other than racists, no pardon no excuse, I’m not going to condone them no way never, as ordinary decent our nationals are.
    Some estimation made by Ichiro Yamamoto, who’s an analyst of Netouyo(means
    Japanese Internet Geeks or Nerds, all being racists, also all of Zaitokukai members have been Netouyo, Zaitokukai was born when Netouyo were going to gather each other), people who are sympathetic with racistic opinion would be counted almost a million in the top of amount.
    Which means racists are obvious minority in Japan, should not be seemed to be
    any representation or delegate of Japanese majority.
    There have been seen that anti-Zaitokukai activity occured and spreading lately, like “the Racist Shibaki-tai” which has been led by Mr.Yasumichi Noma, or “the Tomodachi mamoru-tai”, everyone who has a concsience, not brain-washed one hopes Zaitokukai banished as soon as possible, as me.
    There are certain kinds of singular problems existed in our country causing
    this, worst one is the lack of education with human rights or civil rights, and
    history too, next would be the lack of law bound, and more others, these have made us shameful un-advanced country with human rights ever, so on.
    Anyway, some guy pumping up here, “Truth”something, though I don’t see any of truth in his remarks, you’re covering our faces dirt around, you’re screwed, shame on you.
    I want you to stop it right now.

    He must say that “she’s a foreign agent of anti-Japan syndicate”, I’m very sure of what he’s going to think about me, at a glance.

    • doctorshankar

      !!!

  • Whirled Peas

    So,what is this group’s specific complaint? Can you tell?

    • Truth

      Sorry, I have not had the time to go through it yet but if it is Shuken Kaifuku related, and it does appear to be Team Kansai, is pretty much boils down to “foreigners behaving badly”.

      An interesting side issue is the difference between Osaka culture and Tokyo. Osakans are far more outspoken and less controlled that Tokyoites and the Osaka media covers issues Tokyo would utterly censor. It’s a broad generalization, but Osakans are known to be more expressive.

      These are what other articles refer to as the “internet right” who are actually not appreciated by the real and traditional right wing. Even they see them as noisy and counter-productive yobs rather than genuine activists, you don’t even see their collusion with the Uyoku.

      I’d say it was more of a flash mob mentality of irate citizens against single issues, foreigners behaving badly and disrespecting Japan and Japanese manners, rather than a genuine political movement, or even a group. It exists pretty much only as a website and is run by an podgy nerd.

      Again, it’s one of those areas in which, because the language barriers, the West understands nothing, is unable to differentiate and bundles everyone together; the noise and the colors appear shocking but are pretty much every day events in Japan.

    • Truth

      It seems the group’s main interest is ‘the removal of special rights for Japan-Koreans’ which is reasonable enough. Until you realise how many privileges and benefit there are for Zainichi Koreans, you won’t fully understand, e.g. the boys stay in Japan to avoid military draft and families gets tax rebates if they send money “back home”.

      That is why they don’t want to “become Japanese” by citizenship and stay as ‘Koreans in Japan’ because if they lose the tax benefits of sending money back to Korea. It’s ridiculous. Ordinary Japanese don’t have the right and so obviously they are upset at the inequality of it. Japanese pay taxes and yet Koreans and Korea gets the benefits … then they complain even more at Japan.

      Do people understand this? Complain = money.

      However, it is also important to realize that such people like these are not not liked and welcomed, and not representative of ordinary people. Their way of speaking is very rough, like yakuza-style and they using swear words. They are enjoying what they doing “behaving badly” because they can get away with it as Japan is such a tolerant place.

      Although what they are saying is basically true, the manner in which they are saying is wrong and will drive people away.

      I cannot say with 100% surety that the next thing I am going to write is true, but people say it … there is a theory that some of the really bad uyoku dantai groups, because they have so many North Koreans involved with them, are deliberate trying to give right wing or patriotic views a bad name.

      One thing for sure, their aim is also to make money from being troublesome.

      • Whirled Peas

        Thx for investigating.

  • yamashita_k

    Why is not she arrested? Isn’t her act beyond the freedom of expression?

  • Truth

    Nancy, I read your blog posts on this matter and the speeches on Zaitokukai and the nettouyoku (internet right) that you refer to.

    I largely agree with them, however, you are not address the causes or portraying the big picture.

    As you say, they are not real nationalist or right wing with organization, they are more like a “flash mob”, and yet to non-Japanese read, they are misrepresented as such.

    I am also not right wing. I just think we should look at, discussion and resolve some hard facts and portray the situation fully and accurately.

    I don’t see Zaitokukai etc simply as “racists” or “xenophobes”. To label them as such is to miss the point. Yes, they do use racist language, I will agree with that. But they are an overdue response to foreigners behaving badly in Japan, an expression of ordinary people’s frustration with the government (for many reasons) and there is no denying the abuses.

    it seems reasonable to me that if the government stop the crimes and abuses, the likes of Zaitokukai will die down naturally. What will be more difficult though is to influence the racist and xeonphobic sentiments coming from abroad.

    Japan really has had enough, paid enough and apologized enough.

    • Nancy

      Well, nasty dirty racist “Truth”guy held no truth, Netouyo boy, I’m feeling very embarrassing to see your kind of racists posting here and there, you and your colleagues, never be going to be given any of confirming or approval as deligates of Japan, I’ll never let.

      Anyone should be considered as a racist when he or she speaks out so, there’s no conflict or other understanding required, you’re too twisted.
      What exactly for?
      Labeling or not labeling, which kind of debate is totally no use.
      It’s nothing to do with your own intention or point of view, they are simply racists since they have acted so, that’s all.
      When you try to cover them, you’re the same, there’s no position of third party with racistic discrmination, stand against, or tolerate.
      I’m going to tell you that you’re choosing after one without knowing.

      “Japan really has had enough”, this singular part is intentionally replaced, you should spell “Japan” correctly as it would be, “me”, shouldn’t it?
      Which kind of lettering is very often seen in Netouyo speech.
      Y O U A R E N O T J A P A N I T S E L F.
      Understood?

      You’re the miserable minority who crossed over the line, line of human rights.
      Can you explain, why only you and your folks have the rights beside you have pointed out certain kind of people to not have the rights?
      Why would human rights end up with you and your associate’s exclusive possesion, how and when was it defined so?
      Otherwise, you wouldn’t admit some people’s rights since you don’t need the same rights with yourself?
      There’s no other option offered.
      There’s a line of human rights which no one could be allowed to cross it over, criticizing and violating, these are quite different things from one to another, not the same thing, should be separated precisely when it has been debated or told, which you don’t ever understand.
      Hate speech is not going to be tolerated in spite of lot of your poor excuse presented, unless you make a choice to throw your own rights away.
      Let you.

      • Whirled Peas

        Nancy: I congratulate you on your efforts to speak out and challenge hate talk. It is very brave of you and your friends, and it shows the world that there are people in Japan who will not tolerate that kind of speech and attitude. Hearing the girl in the video talk about killing people was very disturbing. In the US, where I am from I don’t think you would be jailed for that kind of speech, but people would be very shocked, and if any kind of violence was committed by someone talking like, it would be considered a hate crime and severely punished. So, I was so glad to see a different video showing Japanese activists defending the Korean community.

        I think it is important to not excuse that kind of hateful behavior, but at the same time it is important to try to understand what is behind it. I mean is it ideological (“Japan for Japanese only” kind thinking, or is there even a kernel of a legitimate complaint behind these rants. ) I’m not saying that a legitimate complaint excuses the racist ranting behavior, but it would suggest that maybe a concrete solution can be found that can ease the tension between groups. For example, the USA is made up of many different groups, who usually get along surprisingly well, but sometimes there are inter-group disputes that can turn ugly and manifest in conflict and racist name-calling. More likely than not, the conflict can be resolved by identifying the problem and having discussion or working with government to make changes. If there is no outlet to resolve problems, they just get worse.

        Anyway, Nancy, those are just my thoughts. The main message to you is “ganbatte.” to you and your friends. Hang in there, okay.

        WP

        • Nancy

          Truely appreciated your sincere reply, I was very moved.
          You seems to be an American, wish my guess is not so wrong.
          Me and my folks have gathered to protest against Japanese Netouyo’s hate speeches, about me for almost over a year to commit, someone who’s my kind of mentor seems to hang on for several years.
          We’ve been there much to see every type of activities what Netouyo like to do, that’s the reason how I treated this “Truth”something guy.
          He has typical particularities what Japanese Netouyo always have, I can explain how he’s ended up like this.
          First, it’s very grateful if you would understand that we Japanese have serious lack about education of human rights.
          Almost every kind of us don’t have enough understanding about human rights, that’s the place where Zaitokukai was born.
          Actually, the words of “human rights”which is spelled as “人権”in Japanese, these are supposed to be looked by every Netouyo people as kind of singular weapon or something what anti-Japan people exclusively use to “attack patriots like us”, I’m not kidding.
          Even ordinary our nationals rarely speak out “人権”, some of them intend to avoid from being seen as a left winger, or anti-Japan personality.
          Next thing might be going to suggest that Netouyo people “learned”something from visiting almost same places where only distortion and forger things are full stocked, there’s no much difference of information existed between those Netouyo visiting sites if their URL was not the same, they insist to copy and paste, then copy and paste, and copy and paste, there’re a lot of different sites created having same ugly contents.
          Then they make us very confusing everytime when we bump up with one of Netouyo, since they start to claim the same thing, so we could hardly discriminate which from which.
          Persecution mania is quite common seen in their activities, which is also shown in what “Truth”guy wrote, this kind of particularity seems to point a syndrome of cult drowning, I’m never kidding, it’s not just my kind of single opinion.

          There’re more others to explain, but it seems I couldn’t make it presented such whole of our studies with Netouyo people.
          At least I can say, they are all delusional, almost of them have brain-washed, every accusations they claim are forgers, there’s no any fact of their manifesto, that the minority people have totally conquered all over Japan, and long term resident Koreans had become priviledges, without knowing.
          How would they achieve such a thing as existing 1 individual among over 200 Japaneses?

          And, no one could understand an individual’s mind when he or she has brain-washed, that’s the conclusion we reached out with having experiences, no useful conversation has been made between Netouyo people as far as I know of, besides, they never got to make any of debates without hate speech.
          Wish you know that their theory or complaint has been made from gunuine distortion or forgers, whatever they say, we can’t discuss anything as long as it’s based on full of forgers.

          If you’ve found some trouble occured out there, you don’t have to think like this, “Maybe, there might be some mistakes in both sides of people, as long as they’re arguing”, as speaking of the Netouyo issue, this kind of view is quite wrong.
          Thank you.

          • Whirled Peas

            Hi Nancy,

            Thank you for your response and for all your good work. Yes, I’m an American who has been involved for many years in issues of democratic rights in the US and abroad, including the fight for equal employment and access to education, housing, and daycare, and against clear discrimination. You may be aware that during WWII, 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent (mostly citizens) were forcibly moved from the west coast to inland deserts where they were housed in army barracks behind barbed wire for three years because the US government falselyclaimed they posed a security threat. They lost most of their possessions and three precious years of their lives behind barbed wire. But through hard work and sheer perseverance, a strong family and community structure and always looking forward most managed to create fulfilling lives for themselves and their children after they got out of camp. (Still, it was not easy). And, the earlier waves of Chinese Americans have also been discriminated against in the past via Exclusion Laws, put in the most dangerous jobs building the transcontinental railroad and in the mines, limited to certain jobs and neighborhoods and then accused of being “clannish.” They as a group have also now gotten their due respect because they are so hard working. etc. And wave after wave of Caucasian immigrants from different countries have faced their own difficulties, so its not just “minorities” who have had challenges. And then there is of course African Americans. America is still grappling with the legacy of slavery abolished only circa. 1865, not to mention our Native American population. Things are a lot better now, mainly because groups have organized for their rights and united with other groups, but there is always more work to do.

            One thing, I’ve learned is that the social and political terrain in the US is highly complex. Once one has been involved in various rights movements you start getting a keen sense of when a group has a legitimate gripe and when a group is just taking advantage of the liberal mindset that characterizes many Americans, including politicians. But that comes only with time and experience.

            Well, in my opinion whether we like it or not, the US is a nation of immigrants from all over the world, so it is worth working hard to manage and optimize our particularities. I’m a firm believer that education and travel to other countries are keys to maintaining a society that is more tolerant and more global-thinking. Unfortunately it is increasing more difficult to pay for an education in the US. That is a problem we must solve because there is nothing worse than ignorance and small-minded behavior.

            (As an aside: I’d like to say one thing in the defense of the poster named Truth. He is definitely not Netouyu. He’s been a poster on this blog for a long time, and while I don’t always agree with him, he has made many contributions to various discussions.. He is quite an independent thinker that one cannot easily categorize as left or right. He tries to look an issue from all sides and come to his own conclusion. Sometimes his conclusions are unique and unexpected, and sometimes even unsettling, but never boring! He is one of a kind.)

            Have a nice weekend, WP

          • Nancy

            Thank you for your reply.
            It’s glad to hear many things from such an intelligent person like you.
            If there’s something I have to say, this is simply a Japanese thing between Truth guy and me, Netouyo and my folks, there’s something you never knew.
            Like I said, “Truth”is weirdest name to pick, unless he’s become a God, also it’s a very singular word with Netouyo using, spelled “真実”in Japanese, this is quite popular word which they really love to use, but this is not an only reason why I think about him as a racist Netouyo.
            It’s not my business however you think of what he is, I’m going to do my things, I don’t think he’s in a term of “unique conclusion maker” at all, this is a matter of Japanese, requiring us to involve with, or not to avoid, and not to tolerate.

            You know how he figured me out, ‘word police’, great, just like Netouyo,
            “However, their message is correct. The Korean-Japanese are exploiting the system and financially support North Korea … who is currently threatening a nuclear attack.” this is quite not actually happened but nuclear attack threatening, of course we’re not the only threat receiver, “exploiting” is a word also loved by Netouyo so much.
            And, there’re two types of Korean nationals in Japan, North and South, he’s intentionally ignoring the difference, he blames every Koreans for what North Korea did, it’s obviously not rational.
            And, long term resident Koreans should not be accused by North Korean atitude, this and that must be devided, almost of our nationals know that they are not those of front line troopers as what he thinks, besides, North Korean center building has just been auctioned for money problem, he’s not rational.
            How would you figure out this man “unique”, who’s saying “their message is correct”, no, never correct.
            Every Zaitokukai’s message is simply a violation of human rights, no more.

            If I were you, prefer to step back to make a room for someone being his national, and hand it over.
            I wish I could just avoid Netouyo, if I could.

          • Whirled Peas

            Well, you take care of yourself now. And best of luck with your projects. WP

          • Nancy

            I’m trying to, hope there’s not a doubt happened with my sincerity.
            Here’s a reply written for your recent comment, haven’t posted it yesterday.

            The Japanese camp thing that you suggested, I’ve heard about it, remind me Daniel Inoue so much, deceased last year after given a medal if my memory was not wrong, and there were many people who went to become voluntary soldiers to fight against Japan or the other Axis back then, and there were highly odds of death count observed with their services, which I’ve heard of.
            Also I understand that many of native American people went with the same way at that time, which is depicted well in a movie of “Windtalkers”, starred by Nicolas Cage, directed by Chinese director John Woo, it was very sad, heartaching story I remember.
            Those people are victims of the age, of course there’re more others, I’m not going to blame any of citizens for their senior people’s assets, unless they’re going to intend to justify these things.
            It should be applied to us too, we can’t go and justify or hide any of incidents which our seniors commited, especially about bad things, but unfortunately, for this two decades or so, there’re people appeared trying to do it desperately, they say “You’re not paying enough respects to our seniors”, or “Our seniors never had a mistake, why would they, we have been made only from good gene, also kept handing down quite good tradition”, like this, there’s no useful dialogue happened between them, usually.
            PM Shinzo Abe, he’s the very kind of these, that’s why me and my folks are worried about, also why he’s fascinating Netouyo people so much, much as once he orders his supporters to make a call to TV station and complain them about the “treatment of Shinzo Abe”, on his Face Book, there’re a huge number of calls made by Netouyo people, which means his supporters are including a lot of Netouyo, this is an actual incident happened last December, before the election.

            African American issue might be difficult for us to well understand, but almost of us had been surprised when Mr.Obama was represented, it made me feel some kind of great change coming, also I was surprised recently by South Korea chosen female President too, which thing is supposed to be not happened here for almost a hundred years from now in my guess.
            I remember how Denzel Washinton was like, when he got Academy Award for Best Actor, it was very touchy moment looking at him on the stage, there was obvious something on his face but pure kind of joy.
            Mr.Martin Luther King’s name is well known in Japan, with his famous speech too, Malcolm X is not so famous in here I think, he also once was Denzel’s role to star.
            I’ve been trying to know about the issue through books, many of films, so on.

            Things about us, there’re serious racial discrimination existed as you already knew, foreigners, especially targeted long term resident Koreans, next to Chineses, there’re very dirty words in Japanese for only using to insult these two nationals, I can’t tell you how these words like, these are usually forbidden at any places where civilized, anyone must be kicked out in a second once it’s been spoken, but tolerated on the internet, which is “taboo breaking”thing or “words police”thing what “Truth”somthing Netouyo guy said.
            We have more other problems as Buraku or Douwa issue, Truth guy also refered to insult them, which is hard to explain since those victims have no difference from other Japaneses in the meaning of “Japanese race”, very complicated.
            One thing to add, Zaitokukai attacks these people as same as Koreans too, several members were already convicted for forcing into their facility and messing around, which is called “Suiheisya-hakubutsukan assaulting”.
            There’s more, as Ainu people issue, thay are descendants of native residents in Hokkaido area.
            Maybe I shouldn’t go too far, and better to stop it this time before my small brain starts collapsing, thank you for reading.

          • Taiwanese

            Japan will be proud of having you in the long run.

            Glad to hear from you again!

          • Nancy

            Thank you, I’m really grateful to hear from you such of generous words, though we have been holding a lot of awful racists in own country, even annoying you for long time in here, please give us some break to maintain, or manage.

          • Taiwanese

            Oh, you are too modest. 🙂

            It’s impossible to get rid of the extremism. There are still extreme group in Europe and USA. As It is a global phenomenon intertwined with bitter historical experience and reality.

            Fortunately, we Asian are not that religious and felt that we are the “chosen one”. So compared to US and Europe, Asians are better equipped to deter extremism.

            However, we have to realize that extremism always attracts more eye balls than the middle way, so it’s easy for them to spread their ideology and get supporters quite easily especially when things are not well and an incident happen to enforce people’s stereotype.

            Btw, compared to China, Japan and Korea may have more soil to extremism.
            Because China is a multi race country through countless dynasties, people hard to differentiate who’s who. However, in Korea or in Japan, the race is almost composed as one thus easier to go “extreme”.

            Fortunately, younger generation tend to be more open on this issue and they have more chances to travel and understand each other through all kinds of cultural exchanges.

          • Nancy

            Thank you for cheering me up, I’m very grateful.
            It’s really moved that you do have such a profound perspective and view, and given a so much correct suggestion, guess you might be so educated, and talented.
            In Japan, there’s an odd traditon existed kind of “ethnical superiority”, which I really don’t understand having a knowledge of how it went before the war, through the war, also after the war, though we Asians might have few feeling of “chosen ones” as you say, it’s really really odd.
            Fortunately, our extremists seem to have few possibility to connect with other racists groups on abroad, by their singularity of “Japanese superiority”, or their less capability of foreign language.
            Zaitokukai or Netouyo people haven’t succeeded to rewrite the page of Wikipedia yet, its English version.
            Unfortunately, the youger people which you suggested, are more likely going to be racistic, since their situations look not so good, rather bad, and yet no hope is rising, they feel that the class deviding is proceeding, then some of them prefer to hold to the internet, insult Koreans, Chineses(so sorry), spell around the forbbiden words, which is an only way to compensate for their “sacrifice”, some of “brave”or “more frustrated”ones go and join Zaitokukai.
            Almost of Netouyo, which is extrmists, and Zaitokukai’s homeland, are defining themselves as none other than very victims, having a reasonable right to “defense themselves”, by violating other’s rights.
            Anyone taking the words of “human rights”, quickly given a conformation of “anti-Japan personality who deserves to be kicked out from our country”, then they tell “We=Japan itself don’t need you anymore”.
            Me, quite seems to be one of the obvious evil, they gave me many conformations such as a Korean, Chinese, communist, agent of anti-Japan syndicate, this time Filipino, naive left winger, whatever.
            There’s no way to make them understand that I’m just an angry Japanese, quite uncomfortable with their activities.
            I’ve been trying with my folks to make them less worse, through these of “conformation receiveng”, please laugh it out.

          • Taiwanese

            Hi,

            I am really touched by what you wrote.

            Except for adopting the extremism, I think trading barbs among Chinese, Japanese and Korean is just fine. Hehe! 🙂

            I really hope more and more Japanese realize that it is only people like you not the right wing Japanese that makes people around the world like or even love Japan. Only people like you who can shed Japanese military past and turn a new chapter for all of us.

            Chinese and Koreans are easily aroused by the bitter past. But I am sure no one can deny that Japanese are among the most educated, organized people in the world. Right wing Japanese think they can restore the confidence and pride among Japanese but they ignore that Japan is a very influential country and people are closely watching.

            Again, it’s a pleasure to discuss things with you. GANBATE

          • Nancy

            It’s very kind, and generous of you giving me such a too much valuation.
            Though we have many many annoying racists hanging around in our own Internet area, or in the real world, also no useful measure yet to be found to keep them quiet, or make them less worse, what’s worse is, even this kind of English site is no more their exception, couldn’t help sighing.
            Trading barbs as you say, should be taken care much more than now especially by Japanese ourselves, which we couldn’t so far, I imagine how you’re surprised when you once looked at what Netouyo writing everyday, can’t show you for the sake of its grisliness.
            Particulary, prejudice against Korean people’s genetic, and cultural character, is really bad, awful.
            Some of my on line friends are long term resident Koreans, they’ve been suffering from this prejudice all the time.
            I always wonder how could they desperately believe in that genetic inferiority exits among Korean people only, not among ourselves, though we might have really close type of gene in the first place, close enough to be unable to distinguish which is which, quite unbelievable.
            Anyway, it’s very glad to know that Taiwan, is such a great place where a quite profound man like you lives, I’d like to visit there if I had a chance.

          • Truth

            There is an interesting new post on this website “Religious group that bought North Korean ‘embassy’ building has mob ties” which illustrates to a small degree the interrelated complexities of these issues very well.

            I see the source of the article is from China and so you cannot use it to accuse prejudiced Japanese.

            Nancy, I’ve made it clear to you twice now that I do not fit the profile, nor have the political leanings that you are accusing me off. If you repeat it a third time, I will take it as a direct and deliberate insult.

            What interests me, if getting to a full and deeper Truth of a matter.

            It is not racism to raise a statistical fact that Zainichi Koreans exist as 0.5% of the total Japanese population and yet compose an estimated 75% of the members of the Yamaguchi-gumi (following the defeat of the Korean Meiyu-kai gang in Osaka). The Yamaguchi-gumi exist as about 45% of the total yakuza membership in Japan. Simple arithmetic raises serious questions, from 0.5% of the population perhaps 30% of all yakuza are Korean. The Kodo-kai are almost entirely Korean many with relatives and connections in North Korea.

            Of course, the strange this in all this again, is that we discover American footprints in the post-war establishment of the criminal underworlds. For example, the United States Counter Intelligence Corps working with Korean gangster Chong Gwon Yong (aka Hisayuki Machii) allowing them to take over the black markets. It was Machii who established the Tosei-kai in 60s Tokyo.

            Machii even brokered deals with the Korean government allowing yakuza criminals to set up rackets in Korea and funnel money illegally between the two nations. Money which Korean police and politicians got their commissions on. The same traffic routes are still used to bring guns, drugs and prostitutes into Japan, even child prostitutes. He also worked with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

            They operate numerous fronts and ‘entertainment’ businesses against which protestors protestors act.

            Now, let us accept that this is only a tiny small introduction into a far more complex picture. I appreciate that it might be too much for a “small brain” if that is what you have, but please do not knee jerk to the assumption that anyone asking questions about this — or pointing out huge ambiguities — is naturally an “evil internet right” man.

            I am not. But I cannot ignore certain truths. We are not talking about reasonable, law abiding individuals. No one is accusing reasonable, law abiding individuals. We are discussing another kind who criminally exploit Japan’s weakness, tolerances and generosity.

            And the same applies to some, not all, dowa groups.

            You cannot bundled all individuals of a minority group and say, “poor victims, don’t accuse them” — when they themselves are involved in exploitation, crime and abuse.

            The generally issue with Zainichi Koreans are will the ones who refuse to accept Japanese nationality and who insist on retaining Korean nationality for the sake of legal and financial benefits.

            If they gave up the privileges which normal Japanese don’t have, there would be no dispute and no argument. The problem is not their Korean genes (all Japanese have some Korean genes) — it is their exploitation of privileges, tendency to criminality and support of North Korea that people are upset about.

            For foreigners to understand, the people we are talking are worse than the race hucksters of America — they are like an enemy fifth column inside Japan.

            I will be interested to see if “Nancy” or her mastermind “Mr Takahashi” can correct any of the facts I have offered. Or if they even respond to them.

            The only truthful response start, “Yes, that is true but …”.

          • Taiwanese

            What kind of privilege those Korean PR have been enjoying? Can you be more specific? What kind of legal and financial benefits are they enjoying all along?

            You also made a serious accusation and called them directly as the fifth column. If they really are, why the government of Japan hasn’t taken any actions?

            So all you are saying is that the government of Japan can’t handle it, the average Japanese are not happy so some of them call on the Japanese to kill the Koreans in the public can be justified?

          • Truth

            I have pointed out a number of the advantages in my various posts. The main one is like the financial/tax benefits of refusing to become Japanese citizens and insisting on remaining foreigners/Koreans when it comes to sending money abroad.

            Left or Right, these are now third generation Japanese. It’s about time they accepted that they are Japanese and stop demanding privileges.

            It’s easy to say “hate speech” but remove the privileges, and the criminal gang involvement, and see if there is any more “hate speech”

            I am sorry if the nature of this site makes previous posts hard to find but I have given you starting points to inarguable inter-connections between Korean citizen groups, the most criminal gangs in Japan, and foreign intelligence agencies on the other topic on the religious groups connection with gangsters.

            Zaitokukai are a Citizens Group Against Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan. They deny being racist. It is about the special privileges demanded by a few. Privileges even other foreigners don’t get.

            (Note: 90% of Zainichi Koreans now marry Japanese meaning their families become full Japanese. We are talking about a minority of a minority here).

            They want full Japanese citizenship rights without having to adopt Japanese nationality (and tax responsibilities). Taken randomly, these are legal examples.

            However, there are many illegal examples that upset these activists, like the involvement in and support of violent criminal organizations, smuggling, illegal exports, abductions of Japanese citizens to train NK spies, and espionage.

            Special re-entry visas, deportation statutes and immunities
            Special subsidies for the foreign elderly (Japanese do not get)
            Tax deductions for sending money back to Korea
            Exemption from military service
            Exemption from paying urban and planning tax and other corporate taxes
            Receiving month benefits
            No fingerprinting unlike other foreign residents
            Lower requirements for naturalization from other foreign residents
            Government funding for special schools teaching North Korean ideology and allegiance to Kim Regime, exemption from national curriculum
            Special benefits paid to the families of pupils at said schools
            Right to use false names (legal aliases)
            Exemption of university entrance exam.
            Financial support of organizations associated with Chongryun, e.g. 1.4 Trillion Y per annum (many Koreans are ashamed of Chongryun)
            Government support and bailing out of its credit unions (not suppose to lend so much money)

            Out of the 650,000 in the country, about 150,000 have their primary allegiance, to the degree of pictures of leaders in school classes etc, to North Korean.

            (These laws keep changing, one or two might be out of date).

          • Taiwanese

            Sometimes I think you are quite stubborn, Konkurīto in Japanese.

            Again, It’s common sense that a citizen enjoys more financial benefits than PR. If you are saying that PR enjoys more benefits than citizen in Japan. Then you should ask your government to change it instead of targeting PRs.

            For the crimes or criminal activities as you alleged that they involved in, that’s even easier, if you are PR and is convicted, you have to be deported.

            Man, third generations and some of them I believe can only speak Japanese and they still choose to be PR. I think the reasons are not that simple as you alleged.

          • Truth

            I’ve noticed a tendency in human beings; when provided with evidence the size of a mountain, they are incapable of seeing it because it is too large but if they even have a single grain of sand in their own shoe, they cannot forget it.

            Fine, tell us what the reasons are then.

            The government has to balance external factors with internal factors and moves too slow for many. I suspect what you see in groups like ‘Citizens Group Against Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan’ is activism to bring about equality. I suppose the government will balance up the internal costs of responding or not responding against the external costs.

            As always these issues are much more complex than they are represented.

            Is equality a bad idea? Is to demand equality a bad thing?

          • Taiwanese

            Demanding equality by threatening to kill Koreans in the public and many held the same belief were excited when she shouted : we can kill you…..

            Frankly speaking, they are similar to KKK in the States.

            It’s you who ignored the mountain but tend to pick on a grain of sand in the shoe.

          • Truth

            No, they are not like the KKK or neo-Nazis in Europe. They are far more milder.

            When was the last time the KKK had a high school girl as a spokesperson?

            That is another example of how foreigners, and we are yet to see where you are from, project onto Japan all that they know from their own experience.

            It seems you wish to write anything — except admit equality and following the law are the best thing.

            No one take the political opinions of a high school girl seriously. I’d say almost every teenager has wish their parents or someone dead at some point.

            The founder claims they are modelled on the Tea Party in the USA. I actually don’t know anything about the Tea Party but their intention is to put on loud stunts to draw attention to issues that needs resolving such as the special privileges for Koreans. However, they are not popular and recently becoming counter productive. A bit like the American Sea Shepherd.

            What’s hypocritical is that the citizenship law in Korea is more or less the same as Japan, an adult has to chose one, so they even want more rights that they would have in their own country. Imagine!

            Funnily enough, the idea of dual citizenship was floated in both countries but it was vetoed by the US government.

            Note, one of the reasons Abe is hated is because he has been behind laws to eliminate the primarily Korean criminal gangs, by choking off their funds and stopping them send back money to Korea.

          • Taiwanese

            Tea Party is regarded as the far right in the States.

            But even though they are far right, they don’t campaign killing people in the public. On the contrary, KKK and neo-nazi do. They also have many reasons to justify their causes and they get sympathy more than you can imagine in the States and Europe.

            It’s a global issue not only happened in Japan. In Germany, there are Turks . In France, there are Africans. It’s a global phenomenon and in some countries, it deeply affect local politics. Especially when the economy is in downward spiral, and people tend to use “stereotyped ones” as scapegoat. Usually things are also very complicated in those Eurpean countries and were intertwined with bitter history experience and reality.

            You are still trying to defend those who threaten to kill in the public and deny they are similar to KKK or neo-Nazi.

            Here is a picture to show even a little girl can be a KKK member.

          • Truth

            Defend? I said that I think anyone who thinks a Japanese high school girl is a political threat needs to check in with reality. Perhaps she think Doraemon is going to come and chase the Korean Yakuza away?

            Tell me who is the greatest threat to society, high school girls or Korean Yakuza?

            As I also wrote, I don’t know anything about the Tea Party but I know terms like “far right” are used manipulatively and exaggeratedly for some other agenda, and are often immature name calling in their own right.

            The most relevant points here are:

            to repeat how wrong it is to take examples from West, such as KKK and neo-Nazism, and misattribute them to Japan (to do so is a continuation of the deliberate and ignorant demonization Japan has suffered since foreigners first came to conquer it and generally wrong. Japan is a much milder society).

            to question the special privileges given to Korean, and

            to inspect whether they are being abused. They are, widely, and to support a dictatorial regime that is current threatening war against Japan.

            Therefore, on one side you have a high school girl, probably encouraged by her father to speak badly. On the other side you have Yakuza and
            Kim Jong-un threatening nuclear missile attack.

            And you’re worried about the high school girl?

          • Taiwanese

            You are making funny comparison. If they want to protest NK, they should go to NK embassy and shout : “We will kill you if you attack us”. I have no problem at all.

            But the girl was in the wrong place saying the wrong thing.

            Anyway, I don’t want to discuss this issue with you since both of us have made ourselves clear.

            Thank you!

          • Truth

            I think you are being cowardly in the face of difficult objective facts that undermine your prejudices against Japan.

            What would a Taiwanese know about the KKK and neo-Nazi and why would they make such a comparison? It’s not part of Asian culture.

          • Whirled Peas

            Truth: The US Tea Party movement is made up of a many local grassroots organizations across the 50 States, and it does not have a clear central authority making policy. Nor do different subgroups agree with each other on all the issues. I wouldn’t call them necessarily far right. Not so clear cut. There are libertarians and populists amongst them. Tea Partyers tend to be against big government rules and against burgeoning bureacracy. They don’t believe that the government should throw money at problems (anti-spending) and want to get rid of all earmarks until the country can balance its budget. They hate the national deficit. They also take the Constitution almost to the letter. They’ve gone beyond “taxation without representation is tyranny.” In general they hate taxes. They are for free enterprise and are especially supportive of small business and believe in letting market forces play out. They also are against nationalized healthcare with a vengeance and so obviously do not like Obama. Many people in the Tea Party movement are not strictly aligned with Democratic or Republican parties. though vast majority are closer to the Republicans. They tend to vote for whomever is closest to their core beliefs. Some vote Libertarian, some even Democratic. Some of Tea party folks are kooks, but some are critical thinkers who can back up their opinions.

            To the degree this anti-Korean group is for strict immigration laws maybe it is somewhat similar to Tea Partyers, but it seems Japan’s situation is very different from the US. For one thing, in the US if your parent were born in a foreign country but you were born in the US, you are automatically a citizen subject to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. (For instance, all males 18 and over are subject to military service if a draft is imposed. And any citizen can vote at 18.) It seems in Japan you can be a 3rd generation ethnic Korean Japanese and still not be a citizen — by choice or maybe due to extenuating circumstances — which would be useful to identify. The main issue for the US is illegal immigration from Mexico and also other countries, and what to do about it. Recent polls show that forty-five percent of American citizens who associate with the Tea Party support a path to citizenship of illegals, 16% favor granting only visas to undocumented immigrants, and thirty-six percent favor deportation. I’m not sure how any of those options would apply to this anti-Korean group’s “platform,” if they are indeed sophisticated enough to have a platform per se. One thing though,some of the Tea Party rallies around illegal immigration are very racist, claiming “There are just too many Hispanics.”

            Immigration issues can be contentious in any country. Those doing work around defining immigration policy need to carefully study the history and politics of immigration in their own country and also examples from other countries in order to protect rights of the immigrant (or illegal immigrant) and also those of long-time citizens — this in order to be fair to everyone and mitigate avoidable conflict.

            Let me add, though that this video-girl’s hate speech is just over the top, and needs to be challenged.

          • Taiwanese

            Although there are many factions, the main theme is reducing tax and no big government. In short, they don’t want to take care of under privileged citizens and they think Obama care is robbing the rich money and distribute it to the poor ( mainly blacks and Hispanics ). They don’t mention but you know what they are aiming at in a delicate unspeakable way.

          • Whirled Peas

            Agreed. I think I mentioned the Tea Party is anti big government and anti-tax. They believe everyone should pay for their own healthcare. Problem with that is that if you aren’t lucky enough to have a health plan at your work place or in retirement, you’re out of luck. If you’re very wealthy you can pay out-of-pocket. That said, IMO, although I’m for health care reform we need to realize that not everyone is going to get the same exact quality of nationalized healthcare. There is simply not enough money in the system. There is going to have to be different levels according to what one can pay, with a basically good level at minimum for all. But the US also needs to really monitor this because there are many who will try to game the system. They do it already. Medicare for instance has to be monitored so that doctors don’t put in claims for stuff they didn’t really do or overcharge. . Lots of corruption in Medicare. I do not disagree with everything that the Tea Party stands for. For e.g., I think having such a huge US national deficit is ridiculous. And I can’t stand all the waste in government. I could go on, but I think I’m going way off-topic 😉

          • Hatcherbabygirl

            You are so wrong. It would be laughable but it I just sad.

          • Truth

            The internet right might be similar to a degree in that they are not structured organizations any more. They are just small groups with little ideology who come together quickly via the internet. They are not considered “proper” right wingers. Not even “proper” hardline right wingers.

            Japan and America’s history regarding immigration is so different. It’s incomparable. It would a very bad idea for Japan to naively borrow ideas from America, especially unproven ones for reasons that we can discuss, but that is what is happening. The moderate left wing parties and groups such as the teachers unions tend to be very naive, inexperienced and quick to pick up on faddish ideas in many people’s opinions.

            I would say it would depend on who she was shouting at. If it was at honest, law abiding citizens then, fine, I would agree with you. But if it was at some criminal gang or anti-Japanese Korean nationalist group, then I would not have so much much sympathy for them.

            In fact, I cannot say this because it is against the law, but if someone was to kill all of the pachinko bar owners tomorrow (over 70 percent are of Korean ancestry), I’d be very happy.

            It’s like say, “I wish all the drug dealers and pimps were dead”.

            As an aside, I just learned that the Korean prostitute rackets (illegal, tax free) are destroying the legal Japanese prostitution business (must pay individual and city tax etc) because they are undercutting them. They are starting to dominate the health delivery prostitution market (home delivery prostitutes, no brothels, no love hotels).

            The Korea girls have sex for less. Without a doubt many are forced into it to pay off debts back in Korea and are trafficked by Korea gangs. Many come in on tourist visa for “holiday prostitution” and work illegally.

            It’s another example. How would you feel if on the other side of the road was an illegal Korea prostitution business?

            Same too with Korean hostess bars.

            Nancy will come back and tell me I am “being racist” for saying such things. On the other hand, if you are interested I can show you where the men are lining up in a residential area just near to a pre-school or the woman walk the streets. Only foreign woman do and, generally, they are the only ones who have sex with foreigners.

            Most Japanese know and see all these things. Most foreigners won’t because they can’t read the signs or understand the code words.

          • Whirled Peas

            Truth: I just saw this post. I wrote you a response regarding immigration, in the monk thread. The Tea Party is a bit more organized than a loose affiliation of internet groups. They actually do get together to decide on things like putting my not-so-favorite Sarah Palin up for vice-president and maybe president in 2016! Oh, and I respectfully decline your kind offer to show me where men are lining up to be serviced in a residential area near a pre-school. Uh, NIMBY — not in my backyard! This goes beyond immigration issues. It is a matter of whether or not the police have the will and ability to handle prostitution and human trafficking.

          • Truth

            Prostitution occupies an ambiguous position within Japanese society for a number of reasons (technically it is illegal) but given it is a very big and lucrative business worth 10s of billions USD it attracts and requires a big business to run it, and that means criminal gangs.

            Korean involvement of it happens at all levels from organizing, to trafficking, to overstaying on holiday or “entertainment” visa as prostitutes.

            There are an estimated 50,000 women from South Korea employed illegally in the sex business in Japan. Supporting their business is an industry of managers, protection, illegal immigration, forgery (passports and papers), fake marriage brokers and so on.

            Because of a crackdown on the sex trade in South Korea, poverty and sexual discrimination there, they come to Japan to make easy money.

            All street prostitutes you will see in Japan are foreigners and protected by criminal gangs. Obviously it upset people living in the area.

          • Nancy

            I’ve made it clear to you too, who’s insulting, or provoking is you, not me.
            You prefer to complain Super, if you really think I’m insulting you, though you haven’t made your account, and not give your own URL up, let you go and accuse me, why don’t you, what are you waiting for? That’s all OK with me.
            I wonder, who was it to insult me saying “Perhaps you are not even old enough to pay taxes and support yourself yet?”or “”Nancy”, a strange name for a Japanese woman but a common one for Filipinas or Chinese, will be able to confirm that what I have said above is true.” or “パラサイトシングル” or “banana wannabe type”or “一卵性母娘”, how do you think you’re not insulting me?
            Is there any decent man in here who’s able to spit this kind of craps, to me?
            You must feel a very shame of these.
            As I said before, it’s glad if you’re keeping exposing your stupidity for dirty spitting with me, it’s been aimed in the first place, why don’t you notice, you might be forgotten what I’ve been committed to.

            I’m not interested in any of your ●hit opinions going but including human rights violation, or ignoring, and its justification.
            Human rights might be quite different from one on your mind.

            You’re completely delusional since you have a belief in some stupid idea of Netouyo, which minority people have become priviledges wtihout knowing, though existing 1 individual among over 200 of us, or all Koreans must be front line troopers of North Korea, they’re all loyal to both North and South, or vermin who’re exploiting “your assets”, and we have only “less rights” than the minority, how these forgery can be exist?
            Quite not rational, from seeing through “not brain-washed person’s eyes”, as one who’s living in Japan.

            Well, have you found any good solution to make your explanation for defending a second grade junior high girl in the sake of her “being a woman”?
            Or figuring her out as not being brain-washed?
            I’m just looking forward to hearing it from you.

            I wonder why you’re not going to show your “blue print picture of the ideal Japan’s looking”, beside just complaining this or that.
            You might take all things out from your excellent brain or something, put these forward in front of people in here how it’s like to be, or how stupid it would be.
            You don’t need to keep sparing it anymore, let it show, how would it like to be?
            Not rubbish?
            Is it able enough to be seen?
            What is your blue print picture of the ideal Japan figure?

          • Truth

            Nancy, your response is nothing but hysteria, sarcasm. I asked you to stop calling me a ネット右翼 because that is not my position and yet you deliberately did the opposite.

            I think your response is typical of when someone cannot address the hard, uncomfortable facts of a discussion and wants to distract from them.

            For example, let’s discuss how the biggest factories for the manufacture of shabu (amphetamine) are in North Korea, how the drug is trafficked into and around Japan by primarily Korean criminal gangs, and ask where the money goes?

            Of course, we could also look at the increased production of heroin in NK slave camps for “political” prisoners, smuggled by Korean diplomatic corp, and ask where it goes too (estimated $1bn).

            If Japan did not take such strict stances, it would be flooded by such influences. (The primary exports of North Korea are shabu and counterfeit cash. Whereas in Japan we have the Yakuza, in North Korea the government runs the business).

            Let’s use some rough figures to understand the scale of the problem:

            Yakuza membership is estimated to be around 90,000

            Korean ancestry membership of Yakuza is said to be between 10% and 70% depending on which gumi, so let’s estimate around 40%.

            40% is around 40,000 men (I use round figures for ease)

            If each man supports a family from his crime, that equal approximately 160,000 (e.g. mother, father, child, grandparent). Of course, the way it works is that the women are also ‘in the business’ too running bars, mizo-shobai etc.

            Now, total Zainichi population is around 650,000 and so that would equate to about 1 in 6 and what we have seen in other articles is how the spider web of criminal influences reach into religion, civil and political organizations like a cancer.

            Let me make that clear. I am not saying Zainich Koreans are like a cancer, I am saying that within the Zainich Korean community, there is a cancerous web of criminal and political exploitation.

            That is a proven fact and that is what reasonable Japanese are concerned about. Foreigners may not, and the issue might just seem like a “civil rights abuse” or “racism” to them but everyone in Japan knows about this and why.

            They try to live by avoiding it.

          • Truth

            The point I am making is that it is not against the ordinary, reasonable individuals of Korean ancestry that ordinary, reasonable Japanese are concerned and upset with; it is that behind the facade, manipulating the facade of public opinion, are very serious concerns — a hard core of criminality, anti-Japanese nationalism and the exploitation of special privileges.

            Take away the criminality, Korean anti-Japanese nationalism within Japan, and the exploitation of special privileges and you will basically have no more problems.

            Japanese have every right to complain and their complaints are grounded in facts.

            We cannot ignore those facts.

            (Incidentally, it is not just Japan but also South Korean, the Philippines and elsewhere that suffer similar problems with NK drugs and gangs).

            I have a record on this website for very patience and details discussion and I have offered to respond to you in a reasonable and patient manner — if you stop your insults and sarcasms and start to discuss intelligently, we will have no conflict.

            I’ve provided a detailed explanation of the background to this dispute and illustrated how there are valid foundations for Japanese citizens to be concerned.

            Now it is up to you to prove that those facts were wrong or that the Special Privileges in law do not exist.

            You cannot, because the sources for such facts come from official sources. Should Japanese society just ignore this exploitation of special privileges/status and crime? Is it “racism” to do so?

            99% of the problem lies on the Zainichi Korean side for demanding full rights of Japanese citizenship while refusing to accept Japanese nationality and act within the laws of Japan.

            If they accepted nationality and renounced crime, the problem would disappear and they would be accepted.

            (BTW, I am not including illegal immigrants in the estimates nor the amount of “protection” money provided by legitimate entertainment business to support criminal gangs and anti-Japanese nationalist groups).

          • Hatcherbabygirl

            You are so far out of line, I don’t know where to start. You are not helping your cause because you are obnoxious and rude, as well as ignorant. God Bless Japan and the people who love her.

          • Nancy

            In my conclusion, you’re not worth to talk with.
            You’re rude, you’re creepy, your English is quite unusual, rather obscure, you’re completely delusional, you’re quite prejudiced, stubborn, racistic, conspiracy addicted, persecution mania, and crucially, you’re not a gentleman.
            No gentleman likes to insult a woman as you did to me, no matter of whatever she said.
            You had better think twice, if you really count on that any woman still welcome you after those kinds of harassmant, honestly, hard to believe that you’re a kind of standard matured man.
            You take all the information in from “Japanese written site”, and put it out by English, no books, no movies, no Korean friends, and there’s nothing different containing from usual Japanese writing Netouyo.
            You prefer to talk with foreigners in here, instead of your own nationals, I can easily imagine why, any of your rhetorics are not going to work with ordinary Japanese individuals who know “what’s actually going on out there”, so it couldn’t.
            Also, maybe for the sake of your some satisfaction too.
            Foreigners gathered here would be only opponents left for you, except for Netouyo people like yourself.
            Well, Mr.Takashi’s still going to welcome you, and I’m still going to do my things, to try not to make you our delegate some, keep criticizing you anytime when I like to, but I don’t read your response anymore, I don’t think I have to, since you’re not a gentleman at all, but suit yourself if you like to, keep up, beside all those responses are going to be disregard, sorry you.
            If you don’t like it, go to the Super.

          • Truth

            In short, Nancy, you admit that there is a lot of truth in what I wrote — so much so that you cannot even start to answer it.

            Instead of even attempting to answer the most simple element of it — e.g. do Zainichi Korean have special privileges ordinary Japanese don’t and have some Zainichi Koreans supported the terrorist North Korean state to the sum of 100s of millions of Dollars each year — you just spit a line of insults at me.

            That’s no way for a lady to behave either.

            I’ve told you I am not right wing and asked you not to call me net-uyoku and yet you have libelled me on your blog, which is linked to from your profile, presumably in order to attract more attacks … Is that lady-like too?

            I have no idea who “Mr. Takashi” is. Mr. Takashi is perfectly welcome to come here and answer the questions and issues I have raised to explain the issue to foreigners and give them some insight into the issues.

            For all I know, you don’t exist and are just a fantasy of his?

          • Hatcherbabygirl

            You are completely unreasonable. Truth has the facts and you have “feelings.”

          • Nancy

            Well, thank you, but, I think you’d better show your nationality first, before you deny me out of the blue, since this is a very Japanese business, oh, giving up your own URL is more better, as me.
            There’s no excuse I’ve ever found in what Zatiokukai doing, or no fact suited of their manifesto, and accusations, that’s what I know for sure as a Japanese.
            Best thing is, reading a book of “ネットと愛国”, which means Internet and Patriotism, author Kouichi Yasuda, written all about Zaitokukai, published last year and got 2 prizes, and 1 nomination.
            Why did they award him 3 times if this book is filled with ●amned forgeries.
            By the way, how would you figure yourself out decent, I really wonder.

          • Truth

            Nancy, you’re distracting from the issue here.

            Whether a book has won awards or not, the root of the problem now lies with a minority of primarily North Korean loyalists living in Japan, refusing to take Japanese citizenship, demanding privileges and breaking the law.

            Search 在日特権

            In addition, at one point it was a fact that crimes rates were 6 times higher for Zainichi Koreans and benefit claiming unemployed 10 times higher than Japanese. Therefore, given they enjoy privileges, it is not entirely surprising that working class Japanese who live around them are upset.

            That does not mean I agree with Zatiokukai, nor even think their protests are productive, but I have to accept the truth of the matter.

            It is a bit like prostitution. On one hand you can argue that women are coerced by poverty into prostitution and it is true but, on the other, if it is “poverty” for brand bags and fashion then one might be less sympathetic.

            Similarly, one can argue that Korean immigrants were discriminated against in the past, however, that does not excuse to turning to a life of crime.

            Where a group of hardliners are supporting a dictator regime like that of North Korea, and are proven by police and courts to have been involved in smuggling goods, money and even drugs and people, then it is a matter of serious concern.

            Now, those are facts. All Japanese people know those are facts. No Japanese adult will argue against Korean domination of Pachinko gambling shops and how they send the money back to North Korea to save tax. Every one knows.

            Until you can start to admit, “yes, there are some problems”, I am afraid you will have ZERO credibility.

            If there is a “Nazi-like” regime today — then sure it is North Korea. Therefore, North Koreas supporters, sympathizers and financiers are the real neo-Nazi supporters. A regime pointing nuclear weapons at Japan and promising to turn it into a battlefield.

            Therefore, those that fight against North Korea are the anti-Nazis.

            If all you can say is “Poor Koreans, Nasty Japanese”, then you will have less than ZERO credibility. You have to start by admitting the ‘some’ truth.

          • Truth

            Of course, naive left winger types, influenced by liberalist ideas taken from America, will run to these people’s aid calling them “victims” and any valid criticism a “violation of rights” … but I would call the victims the young Korean women they sex traffick and exploit as prostitutes and hostess in Japan.

            I would split Zainichi Koreans two ways; those who like and have accepted being Japanese and have harmonized with Japanese society, and those whose loyalties, and especially financial interests, lie with either Korea. They are split fairly equally between the two, e.g. I mention young men stay in Japan to avoid the military draft in South Korea whereas the gambling money primarily goes back to North Korea.

            Zainichi Koreans make up less then 1% of the Japanese population, perhaps less than 0.5% if you exclude illegals but in some yakuza gumis they make up as many as 75% of members and even lead.

            Similarity with the uyuko dental, the crazy noisy truck gangs. It will surprise foreigners to discover that they too are populated by Koreans (although not to the same proportion as yakuza). In truth, there is very little ideology to many of their gangs, it is just about making money and extortion thru intimidation. If you are in the right circles, they are ‘for hire’

            As you know, the yakuza are into gambling, sex trafficking and pornography, guns, drugs, and construction kickback schemes. The over Korean involvement is perhaps 30 to 40% — from less then 0.5% of the population.

            There are an estimated 50,000 South Korea prostitutes in Japan. Many have been coerced and trafficking by these people from Korea thru “debt bondage” by Korean gangs working with Japanese gangs, or more correctly Koreans in Japanese gangs. The networks are well know.

            “Nancy”, a strange name for a Japanese woman but a common one for Filipinas or Chinese, will be able to confirm that what I have said above is true. If she claims it is false, them please show us the figures you believe and where you find them. The figures I gave are from official sources.

            Her comments on the Chongryon headquarters are unclear.

            The Japanese tax payers paid for the building and sponsored the group for many year. It was “unable to pay” the $665,100 in million loans. It was unwilling to pay and had distributed and moved the money elsewhere. And it knew it would get away with essentially stealing the “free money” because of the politics.

            It is anyone’s guess how much went back to North Korea.

            It is also false to say all Koreans in Japan “were forced to emigrate”. That is not true. Many were economic migrants escaping poverty in Korea, they chose to stay for the social and economic advantages of staying in Japan.

            They would not be discriminated against if they did not refuse to take Japanese citizenship and behave according to society’s norms — and naturally avoid criminal gang activities.

            Japan and the Japanese are very patient and tolerant but at present the criminal gang elements are being slowly squeezed, so expect to hear they squealing very loudly as their supply of cheap or free money are closed off.

            There are also similar elements of “race hucksters” within the Dowa community (buraku). Of course, again, not all buraku agree with them. In fact, the buraku community is very much split by it. The government gives them free money and buildings and they complain to get more. Other buraku groups believe quietly integrating is the best path.

            Little of this subtlety is communicated to foreigners and neither group of hucksters wants foreigners to know about the subtleties because those that are most vocal in exploiting the financial advantages want to hide behind the genuine groups.

            Naive foreigners, especially the liberal American types, who love to be seen as “heroes” rush to defend the “poor victims” — but when you look a closer you realize that the situation is not as simple as it is being presented.

            Because of the taboos about such issues, it is not the kind of thing Japanese will immediately discuss.

          • Taiwanese

            What you mentioned here is just symptom not the essence.

            What you should ask is: if the system really provides an equal opportunities to those Japanese Koreans be it in private or public sectors.

            For those “illegal immigrants” who refuses to take the Japanese Nationality, There are too many things you can do as an individual Japanese citizen or Japanese government ie cut subsidy to permenant Korean resident.

            I just don’t like the way you stereotype Koreans living in Japan, it seems to me that your opinion is even given them the chance to be educated and prosper in Japanese society, they still prefer to be criminals.

          • Nancy

            Everythings you offered are, all contained within traditional Japanese Netouyo delusion or forgery, put on Netouyo using sites always, so I’m not surprised at all.
            Just made me more confident of what exactly you are, though you’re capable of English that far, I’ve been there many many times, had times to bump up with all kinds of poor Netouyo guys, or “self-claiming female Netouyo”, whatever.

            You really made me laugh that you’re this suspicious only about“Nancy”name, are you fine?
            I’m going to tell you what you wanted to know, this was named after “ナンシー関”, of course you might have known her if you’re a Japanese, understood?
            My former Japanese blog, which is not existed now, had put her name on the top of each page, just under the blog title, everyone who involved me knows it but you.
            I’ve been working with Mr.Takashi, who’s a superintendent of たかしズム, with my Japanese HN of パブロン中毒, pretty well known in the neighborhood, I wonder a little why Netouyo guy like you never knows me.
            By the way, Mr.Takashi is really waiting for you to come, since I told him about you, he said he’ll welcome you so much, his URL is put on my profile.
            Anyway, it’s not for you to define how to split the Korean people like which is which, how would you have that authority?
            You have no authority of long term resident Korean people to judge like this at all, no one follows your order or verdict, sorry you.
            Prostitution thing is also a issue what Netouyo always likes to refer, and delusional images of criminal monster figure with Korean people, you’re completely follow the tradition of Netouyo-way, very conservative type of Netouyo.
            These things are never become any reason to violate Zainichi Korean’s rights, who was it to decide to make it happen? You?
            How would you have an authority to define every foreigner must be going to be naturalized?
            Why aren’t they allowed to live as they were born and raised, or keep their cultural tradition?
            Is it for you to order?
            I don’t think so.

            There’s no excuse of human rights violation, like I said before, unless you’re going to keep your own rights, no Netouyo guy had ever made a rational answer for this context.
            You’re not an only rights possessor, and you’re not a kind of hero who’s breaking taboo, there’s no taboo waiting for you to be smashed, just a poor Netouyo messing around and annoyng others.
            You haven’t been awaken the truth at all, but brain-washed over.

          • Nas

            Could you please listen to this guy.he is stating fact here.word up.

  • Nancy

    Introduce you one of the charges against Zaitokukai,
    alomost cited from “ネットと愛国”, which means Internet and Patriotism, author Kouichi Yasuda, published last year and awarded 2 prizes, 1 nomination, he has become a man of the day, recieving a lot of death threats from Netouyo, by each day .

    “Disturbing of Kyouto Korean school”,
    happened on December 4, 2009, almost an hour passed from noon, 10 and saverel members of Team Kansai, went to Kyouto Korean Elementary School, presented their performance beside children were still in there, screaming “Bust a Korean School!”, then police and other adult Koreans in the neighborhood came down, there were quite a riot happened.
    “Bust it up!”
    “We’re quite not generous like other groups!”
    “We made you live here comfortably, be more grateful, you can walk only the end of the way! ”
    “You Koreans took our ancestors property, with raping Japanese women, didn’t you?”
    “All of you smell Kimuchi! How stinks!”
    “You deserve to eat your own ●hit only!”
    It really frightened the children.
    Some teachers warned them not to yell suggesting that there were the children out there, they said “What kids? The kids are all belonged to the spy parents!”, never stop ranting.
    Some of children started to cry.
    Some individual who joined this assault, lately confessed author Yasuda in private,
    “How could I committed such a stupid thing, really regret it now. There are so much grudge on my mind back then and I was just occupied, that it is very Koreans to blame for the sake of our suffering.”
    Children were gathered in their assembly facility to evacuate, just kept waiting for Zaitokukai leaving.
    The school immediately made it a lawsuit, then an accusation was recieved.
    Next year in August, 4 members who committed the assault was arrested by Kyouto-Fukei police, they were all indicted next month, all of them were convicted on first trial, and one man appealed, but denied.

    • Truth

      Their behavior was bad, and counter-productive, but their criticisms had some truth to them.

      If you are writing about the same school as I am thinking, I think the issue arose because the school expanding its territory to take over a public park beside it as an extended playground and erected some equipment in it. It has no right to do so, it was a public park, and it did not apply for the correct permit and so on.

      Unfortunately, without prejudice, that is the sort of typical behavior some specific (not all) Korean groups indulge in, just as some specific (not all) dowa groups do to. In essence, they exploit their exaggerated “victim” or minority status to their advantage in some way, financially or relating to planning and property as they know they won’t people will be afraid to criticize them because they will play the race or minority card.

      Other Korean and Dowa groups actually criticize this behave and are not happy with them. Be accurate, it is not correct to portray all Zainichi Koreans or the ancestors of buraku to be the same, or in the same boat. They are not. There are divisions between the extremists and separatists and the moderates who believe in following the law and integrating.

      Even though they are funded by local authorities, these Korea schools run by Chongryon (who have their loyalties to North Korea), are a special case or problem in Japan. (They are separate from Mindan who have loyalties to South Korea).

      Chongryon teach North Korean propaganda and ideology to the children (who are really Japanese now) and allegiance to the North Korean dictators. They have pictures of in every classroom. They don’t follow the national curriculum,

      Chongryon is sponsored by the North Korean government, the same one threatening to turn Japan into a battlefield right now.

      It officials are suspected of illegal transfer of funds to North Korea, espionage and smuggling of technology and missile parts, for a long time it claimed benefits and was exempt from property tax. It has a habit of taking money from the Japanese tax payers and bankrupting various organizations in order to further escape debts.

      • Truth

        Let’s look at Chongryon’s activities and decide whether criticisms are really “racism”. We should not confuse extreme Zainichi Korea nationalists with all Koreans in Japan.

        These are just a few cases:

        Chongryon is a source of hard cash for North Korea with members and officials sending back revenue accumulated from pachinko gambling shops, bars and illegal business including prostitution rings.

        Chongryon owes the Japanese government nearly $750 million for rescuing the group’s network of credit unions. (The money went mostly to North Korea).

        A 100-strong Chongryon mob attacked and broke up a rally held by a citizens group set up to help refugees and demand democracy and human rights in North Korea.

        Chongryon senior officials, including a former head of its financial bureau, were found guilty of stealing $6.5 million.

        Chongryon illegally transfer funds to the North Korea.

        A Chongryon operated ship illegally transported parts used by North Korea to construct its missiles (more than 90% of the parts were brought from Japan).

        When the Tokyo Government insisted Chongryon paid property tax, Chongryon refused to pay, resulting in seizure of properties.

        Chongryon still receive property tax exemptions Japanese or other foreign businesses do not from other local authorities.

        Chongryon are investigated by police and intelligence of co-operating in the abduction of Japanese citizens.

        Chongryon refusing to condemn tests of missile which are being aimed at Japan (Mindan officials condemned them).

        Chongryon attempted to illegally export chemical solutions that could have been used to make biological weapons

        Chongryon officials are regularly arrested over tax evasion and unlicensed accounting worth 100s of millions of yen in numerous parts of Japan over decades.

        Chongryon staged a 3 km long march wielding posters of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and accusing Japan of violating human rights of Koreans in North Korea!

        When police or authorities investigate Chongroyn, they are often confronted by 100s of angry supporters who will fight with police and hide their crimes under the accusation of political suppression or racial discrimination.

  • Annah Danga

    Racism and hate speech can be found almost anywhere in the world even some of my countrymen have engaged in some form of racist activity or the other. However it has not been as blatantly expressed as in the present case and most people i know who have seen the video have taken a more cautious stance regarding either moving to Japan or visiting Japan, including myself. I wish not to say that a country should be compelled to receive foreigners if its foreign policy is not in support of that nor should the state deliberately and arbitrarily put its citizens in a state of affairs so unreasonable it would result in such an outcry. Japan ‘s foreign policy (from what i have read and interaction with other Japanese people however limited) is quite flexible and liberal and like most Japan enthusiasts there was a legitimate expectation that it was a true reflection of the people’s will. Further than when in Japan one would face very isolated and less overt expression of racism.

    I do concede that where a group of people have had long-overdue concerns, it does bring about a lot of frustration, suspicion and hate sometimes even towards the innocent and undeserving mass (xenophobic attacks in RSA, probably the most gruesome bloodshed i have seen close-up in my region). The people had legitimate concerns: unemployment, stalling national developments, escalating crime, however the response was highly and criminally unwarranted. Any law student, attorney or judge will tell you that, its totally within your right to get angry at an injustice or concern, the problem starts when u start shouting out “kill, murder” at another person to actually acting that out. The courts, and i believe, any legitimate legal system and political mechanism protects the sanctity of life, and if one of its citizen acts in a manner that would reasonably put any person in its jurisdiction, in risk of racist and hate crimes, that person should be accordingly punished.

    When you have a problem, find out the real issue is, without racists preconceptions, and bring it to the proper forum. Most would say that this is a redundant and obsolete approach towards effecting change in society but i believe in a formalized, institutionalized form of dispute resolution there would be less collateral damage or less gross resulting acts of violence. Which is based on a systematic, standardized and relatively more objective way of solving the real problem. Some would say that these forums are corrupted and often biased towards upper-governmental interests (corruption of justice, equity and resources). I would rather prefer a society more harmonised and objective, than a “mob-run” republican state of ancient Rome. Its in circumstances where we express statements that could cause unwarranted tension and harm to others, that we get the xenophobic attacks of RSA, genocide of Rwanda (Tutsis and Hutus), genocides of Bosnia (ethnic cleansing), Darfur, religious conflicts in India, Nigeria and Egypt. These separatist conflicts are a clear examples when a state or its people allow minute acts of extreme separatism to escalate beyond points of this video. Say what you say and believe what you believe in, however be sure to understand the other side first. If both parties understand each other properly before such feelings escalate to hers, one is more likely to understand the others’ situation better and find a more amicable solution. Where you start going “Left” (wrong direction), you are no more better than a man stranded on a island who on seeing the another man on a boat besets him and tries to kill him for the boat or the man floating and stranded at sea on a boat sees a man on a island and also tries to kill him for the island. the other not knowing that the island is riddled with snakes and lions nor the other knowing that the boat is full of holes and can sink at anytime. Both men ended up dead, (mutual destruction). i believe that most separatist or racist stereotypes are borne from lack information and the inability to listen, empathize with the other party and failure to be tolerant. We sometimes turn to make allegations about another minority because, they are different and natives of other countries, we do not fully understand the cause of our nations problems and they just happen to be convenient scapegoat or just because historical dealings with them have been less than appealing. Ultimately if you empathize harmonize and resolve issues no matter how old with the person you are living next door you will have a much happier stay with your neighbor and may be even the two man would have formed their two manned state on the island and worked toget home together.

    Its hard to understand the unfairness felt by the Koreans to be blamed for the activities of very few of their kind and maybe even the natives (Special Assignment docu on an RSA xenophobic lynch mob who set a Zimbabwean man on fire because they thought he was the neighborhood thief-he wasn’t. Ironically there was a clip of a similarly aged teenage girl who was caught on camera crushing the guy’s head with a huge rock before he was set on fire. Rings a bell much?…) I know the feeling of been treated as inferior, nothing more than dirty by the road-side and hated on. I’m a black young, African woman and i have faced racist stereotypes because of my skin color and race as well as sexist stereotypes. I don’t think any person in any place, for whatever reasons he is resident there, wishes to the so resented and hated to this point. This does not mean that the issues of the native people should be ignored in light of the exceptional situation that most Koreans are in (not being able to go home and stranded in a country where you not exactly a contender for Miss Congeniality). The state is the will of the people and if the will of the people cannot be met then there will be a problem. So there are two number of competing interests, and usually the best way is to balance the two interests against each other, one cannot super-cede the other. In light of this, i think this girl was very irresponsible for not trying to understand the feelings of the minority and for not properly, with the requisite respect for other party, EXPLAIN what her REAL problem is and furthermore failing, in her “INITIATIVE”, to follow the proper due process. She should be accordingly punished for such willful, reckless and negligent behaviour that could incite less than amorous feelings towards others, possibly escalating into violence of a nature that could lead to problems ranging for perpetual passive racism or long-drawn out civil wars like the DRC. Trust me it can happen to anyone.

    Let it be known i am not Japanese nor do i purport to fully know the history or socio-economic and political affairs Japan. However, i do believe that, fine, the girl has a right to express her opinion but for every right there is always a contending counter-right/s. One could ask do we let statements and acts like these be tolerated despite the reasonable likelihood of the threats to life and public order. Moreover Japan has portrayed itself as a country that embraces all, (the ability of the Japanese to retain and continue to instill in its descendants its culture while still being able to assimilate various elements of society, economics and politics and further still make strides ahead of the times, continues to fascinate me even at this point). So people will get offended and some might be wary of similarly dubious nature employed by some countries regarding, tourist, immigration and foreign policies and not want to visit there.

    But still, people should smoke a blunt and just chill. We already have enough with North Korea threatening to bring about The Fall, i still want to have grandchildren people how can visit me in Japan.
    #JustSaying

  • Nancy

    This poor second grade junior high girl’s father, has just been arrested yesterday, April 10, for threatening case of Koube Museum, the news says that he made a call to try to disturb a presentation of Chinese relic, required not to proceed the project, also he was not going to spare with violent solution if the museum would not obey.

    http://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/jiken/201304/0005889122.shtml

  • Nancy

    There’s a stupid common delusion existed among Zaitokukai, or their proponents, and Japanese Internet Geeks Netouyo people.
    Which is, long term resident Koreans have become priviledges, without knowing, exploiting many of Japanese assets, almost all of them are working for North Korea, quite devoted, as correspondents of their classified counter intelligence.
    But, if it’s true, why would these Koreans are not going to stand up, and protest against Zaitokukai, and respond each other and kick Zaitokukai’s members out from near their residents or streets when they come and tell them to die, or hang themselves, why woudn’t they, for over 6 years?
    Against the delusion, what almost Koreans have been doing is just to bear with, in silence.
    It doesn’t make any sense if Koreans are all priviledges, is there any priviledged person ever existed who doesn’t fight back even after told by someone “Die”, “Get the ●ell out of here”, “Get a poison and kill yourself”, “Hang yourself”, “Cockroach”, “Stinks”, whatever like this.
    Who actually started to manage the circumstance first were, voluntary Japanese people, not Koreans themselves.
    Do you still believe in that there’s quite a benefit of being long term resident Koreans?

    • Truth

      Nancy, I asked you to stop making insults and discuss matters reasonably instead of appealing to emotion and ridiculing by exaggeration.

      I’ve also given you a long list of legal benefits that have no disappeared because a school girl called someone names.

      Do you know who they were specifically calling names? I am guess it was Chongryon hardliners and not just ordinary Zainichi Koreans.

      For the record, we are discussing the “Special Permanent Residents” status called “Tokubetsu Eijusha” which give individuals with North Korean allegiances, who refusing to naturalize as Japanese citizens, more legal rights than other foreigners or even Japanese themselves.

      So much for “delusion”, we are primarily discussing legal matters relating to the Alien Registration Law (1952), which was heavily influenced by American McCarthyism, and the Law to Revise Immigration Control (1982) and the legal, visa and tax privileges I have detailed on this page. If you don’t know the laws, then I suggest you study them, or get Mr Takashi to read them out and explain them to you.

      Indeed, up to 1,000s Koreans in Japan have protested, carrying posters of the North Korean leaders and rioted on many occasions in the recent past, e.g. trying to stop Chongryon officials being arrested for fraud, tax evasion, unlicensed accounting and their leaders investigated for their involvement in the abduction of Japanese people to North Korea.

      A 100-strong mob even attacked a Japanese NPO called ‘Rescue the North Korean People!’ set up to help refugees and demand democracy and human rights in North Korea.

      Again, they were organized by Chongryon.

  • Nancy

    One of the priviledged rights alleged by Zaitokukai, as granted to long term resident Koreans.

    “Special legal rights of residence”

    According to Zaitokukai, this must be an unreasonable, unfair rights with the Korean, they have no rights to stay in Japan with no term, and for good.
    What a book of “ネットと愛国” saying is, which was granted in 1965, to former Japanese national Koreans who lived in Japan before the imperialism was ended, means people who came from colony back then, and their direct descendants, instead of deprivation of their former nationality “Japan”, based on Special Law on Immigration Control .
    The law has been revised in 1991, all of their descentdants, also people who had chosen North Korean nationality, were granted the rights too.
    The law says that they are not going to be expelled from Japan without severe disturving of national interest.
    Author Kouichi Yasuda says, “Japan, once was their very suzerain to reign them over at that time, responsible of the peninsula’s upheaval, like any other countries which had a colony back then, it has been always for Japan to take its responsibility, few exception as smuggler kind of things would be in our duty to take it too, or else our siniors should not fail the war, to manage the colony as it was.”or “There’s no superiority existed in their rights, to compare with any of Japanese nationals, maybe other foreigners might or might not do, then why should ‘we’, have got jealous so much? ” which address is what I much agree with.

    • Truth

      Nancy, there’s no question of “alleged” so please remove that and write factually.

      It’s a well discussed and documented legal fact.

      Why don’t you try and addressing a few of the more serious facts, such as the financial support of the vicious North Korean dictator regime, the smuggling, or the scale of Korean involvement in criminal gangs?

      Does Yasuda-san argue, “Poor Koreans, their grandfathers were discriminated against therefore it is Japan’s fault their grandsons had to go and become Yakuza drug smugglers and traffic prostitutes and so we cannot complain. We just have to give them more money”.

      Is he balanced and truthful — does he accept any wrong on the Korean side or are they just “poor victims”?

      I think the point concerned Japanese are making is that these specific Koreans, and we are primarily discussing so called North Korean patriots, get all the rights and benefits in Japan without following the laws everyone else has to do — and become Japanese.

      I’ve documented most of the benefits and extra rights and welfare they get, and yet they want more. They want to be able to vote, even though they still refuse, out of nationalism, anti-Japanese sentiments and their own and North Korea’s financial interest, to become Japanese citizens.

      Nancy, it’s all about the money flowing back to North Korea while North Korea is then threatening Japan with nuclear war.

      I’ve not heard one word from you about that. Are you in denial about it?

      Yes, Koichi Yasuda is also correct to raise the issue that while Korean get these rights, because they make a noisy fuss about it and complain and accuse, other foreigners in Japan who don’t are denied them.

      However, what a strange response he has to that. He does not question it or condemn it, he just accuses other Japanese and foreigners of being bad because they are “jealous”!

    • Nancy

      One of the priviledged rights alleged by Zaitokukai, as granted to long term resident Koreans.

      “Primal receiving rights of welfare of public assistance”

      According to Zaitokukai, long term resident Korean people are quite obvious primal subjects of the allowance, by free riding, making other un-thrived Japanese people into severe lack, sometimes even death of it.
      What “ネットと愛国”saying is, based on Author Yasuda’s research, through interviews with Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, or Welfare Office, there’s no priority of the Korean ever found, tighten up of the allowance payment is just a phenomenon commonly seen over the entire bureau system of Japan, resonated to our declining economy.
      Also he had found that the term has been just applied as it requires, no exception of priority of the Korean.
      According to the Kourou-shou=Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s amount of the allowance researched in 2011, there were 25,000 Korean families counted who delivered, among 1,497,329 families of whole recipients, estimated almost 13% of Korean families were delivered beside 3% of Japanese ones.
      The Korean families seem to get it almost 4 times more than Japanese families, which is supposed to be considered as their un-thriving life style, as I addressed before.
      The rate itself should not be taken as their primal or priviledged social position or class, it simply means their poverty, considered there would be many of un-pleasing influence brought by Korean identity with their lives, means being a minority makes him or her discriminated almost all the time, in almost every occasion in here, since we’re living in the country very designed to do so, “un-advanced human rights nation” would be just appropriate, when we’re going to call it.

      • Nancy

        In our welfare system, foreigners are not entitled to plea a motion against the determination given by authority, the title every own national has, then they must put it into a direct lawsuit, or just forget it if they couldn’t afford to do it.
        In 2008, some long term resident Chinese woman, lived in Ooita Prefecture, had made a lawsuit for her dismissed motion of the welfare, which pointed her nationality as not being a Japanese, been denied on the first court, but confirmed on the second court Fukuoka-Kousai, the judgement called for equal rights with long term resident foreigners legitimately, with overturning the previous dicision.

      • Truth

        Yes, it could be their “un-thriving lifestyle”.

        Or it could just be they just make much more money in Japan not working than they would in North Korea by having to work every hour or every day, so they want to stay in Japan, collect benefit, get privileged social housing and still be able to send money back home … rather than just go and get a job.

        Who is to blame?

        It’s an identical problem to other countries where poor immigrants come, claim benefits, work illegally, avoid taxes and upset locals who have to work to survive and can’t get social housing benefits.

        Who is right and wrong?

        What makes it worse in the case of the Zainichi Koreans, as far as Japanese people are concerned, is that they do so but still refuse to become Japanese citizens too.

        They want the benefits of being Japanese without paying for them.

        The reason they refuse Japanese citizenship is not just anti-Japanese sentiments or racism but because if they did they would lose the financial benefits of being foreigners, e.g. tax when they send money back to North Korea.

        Is it wrong that Japanese should be upset at people living off Japan, not integrating, refusing to play by Japanese laws … and then turning around and criticizing Japan or financing a regime that is threatening Japan?

  • etiennes

    Thank you for speaking out. Unfortunately, the non-racist Japanese are not speaking out very much. That’s why many people are not sure if maybe even a majority of Japanese shares these awful ideas.
    I know it could be a cultural thing to rather try to ignore this bad stuff, but it really is time for the good Japanese to organize and speak out against the racists, both on the net and in public (speaker vans).
    In Western culture, not speaking out against something means accepting it or sharing the same opinion – and this is a cultural difference that can lead to a wrong image of Japan if extreme topics such as racism are involved.
    I beg the Japanese to actively show the world they don’t condone racism.

  • Mojo.Celtica

    How do you know they’re right wing and not left wing?

  • Tim Johnston

    Wow!

  • harryspaz

    The linked video has been taken down, but there are still several versions floating around.


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