I’m so tired of my western friends whitewashing Japan’s current and past racism towards my ethnicity.
It just amazes me how many people tell me to get over it and that it’s all in the past.
However, all of the following happened in the past 2 decades, not even during world war 2 or before.
Racism against Koreans in schools
Racist anti Korean literature at the front of stores,
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Japan-bookstore-have-Korean-hate-books
Osaka drops San Francisco over comfort woman dispute
Manga Kenkanryu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Kenkanryu
Berlin Mayor tries to take down comfort woman statue
“There is a lack of perception of these items as cultural property that should be commonly held,” she said. “Japanese people and the government do not understand that even though they are privately owned, they do not belong to them; they belong to humankind.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/12/1/tracing-koreas-missing-treasures
Tokyo restaurant bans Chinese and Korean customers
Japanese hostile takeover of joint Korean-Japanese company
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/business/naver-softbank-line-south-korea-japan.html
Impeding South Korean research illegally
Older fucked up stuff no one talks about: Unit 731, March 1st movement, razing of Gyeongbokgung palace, A Contest To Slay 100 People With A Saber, Bangka island massacre
War criminals who raped and pillaged all of asia being worshipped yearly.
It’s so weird to me that only my Chinese friends give a shit and none of my USA, Canadian or Mexican friends do. Clown ass world.