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Anti-Japanese sentiment (also called Japanophobia, Nipponophobia [4] and anti-Japanism) is the fear or dislike of Japan or Japanese culture. Anti-Japanese sentiment can take many forms, from antipathy toward the Japan's country to racist hatred of Japanese people.
An increase in tensions between Japan and North Korea in the late 1990s led to a surge of attacks against Chongryon, the pro-North residents' organisation, including a pattern of assaults against Korean schoolgirls in Japan. [28] The Japanese authorities have recently started to crack down on Chongryon with investigations and arrests.
In the United States, anti-Japanese sentiment had its beginnings well before World War II.Racial prejudice against Asian immigrants began building soon after Chinese workers started arriving in the country in the mid-19th century, and set the tone for the resistance Japanese would face in the decades to come.
The Hate Speech Act of 2016 is a Japanese law that regulates hate speech. It was enacted on 25 May 2016 by the National Diet . However, it does not ban hate speech and sets no penalty for committing it.
The ghetto was strictly isolated by Japanese soldiers under the command of the Japanese official Kano Ghoya, [12] and Jews could only leave it with special permission. Some 2,000 of them died in the Shanghai Ghetto during the wartime period. [13] However, Japan refused to adopt an official policy against the Jews.
China's top social media companies have condemned online hate speech targeting Japanese, delivering a vigorous response to comments triggered by a knife attack last week that killed one person and ...
The Red Scare in Japan refers to the promotion of fear of the rise of communism and socialism in Japan. Throughout the history of Imperial Japan, the government suppressed socialist and communist movements. [1] In order to combat the Communist International, Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and Italy in Nov. 6, 1937. [2]
Zaitokukai was founded on December 2, 2006, and held its inaugural meeting in January 2007. [1]Sakurai founded Zaitokukai after seeing a TV news report on a group of Japanese citizens organizing to support the Zainichi Koreans who brought a lawsuit to obtain national pensions without making any premium payments.