Growing isolationism in Japan

[NobleCynic]

Sales of revisionist, racist, and isolationist media is growing rapidly in Japan. The increasing popularity of this kind of racist garbage greatly disturbs me. Anyone else? Thoughts?

Having recently been in China myself I can testify the same kind of hatreds are being stirred up there as well. A government encouraged riot/protest trashed an Ito Yokado (A Japanese department store) in Chengdu, the Chinese city I was staying in.

"Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan"

By NORIMITSU ONISHI
TOKYO, Nov. 14 - A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave" exclaims, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another passage the book states that "there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of."

In another comic book, "Introduction to China," which portrays the Chinese as a depraved people obsessed with cannibalism, a woman of Japanese origin says: "Take the China of today, its principles, thought, literature, art, science, institutions. There's nothing attractive." ...

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