"Battle Royale" actor and left-wing populist Reiwa party leader Taro Yamamoto tried to climb over lawmakers to stop the passing of an anti-refugee law through Japan's Upper House (via @mrjeffu) pic.twitter.com/HuPTMXvDef— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) June 8, 2023
I used to be a big ol Japan nerd as a kid bc of early anime and jrpgs. As I got older I realized Japan really kind of sucks, mainly due to the intense xenophobia.
Anyways, I remember meeting some Japanophile girl who had come back from a semester abroad and brought up the xenophobia stuff and they couldn't even talk about it to me. I dunno how you read about the lives of immigrants in Japan (not even talking about westerners, it's really folks immigrating from other parts of Asia that have it bad) and not realize your starry-eyed views of Japan arent seeing the full picture
I used to be a big ol Japan nerd as a kid bc of early anime and jrpgs. As I got older I realized Japan really kind of sucks, mainly due to the intense xenophobia.
Anyways, I remember meeting some Japanophile girl who had come back from a semester abroad and brought up the xenophobia stuff and they couldn't even talk about it to me. I dunno how you read about the lives of immigrants in Japan (not even talking about westerners, it's really folks immigrating from other parts of Asia that have it bad) and not realize your starry-eyed views of Japan arent seeing the full picture