Nationalist freakshow
I hadn’t heard about this when it happened, but it’s certainly one reason not to move back to Japan. Apparently there was a magazine published earlier this year that took as it’s theme “crimes by foreigners” - but even this was a thinly veiled excuse for printing inflammatory and racist vitriol for the exclusive purvey, according to the publisher, of Japanese readers.
The efforts of the online foreign community in boycotting sellers is admirable and impressive. It goes beyond a shame, though, that it was even necessary.
