Japanese ‘hate speech’ debate abandoned as insults fly
Hashimoto surprised many when he agreed to debate Sakurai, the leader of Zaitokukai, which campaigns against “privileges”, such as the right to vote and access to welfare, afforded to Japan’s 500,000 non-naturalised ethnic Koreans. The debate at Osaka city hall was held amid a worrying rise in incidents of hate speech towards Korean residents, often perpetrated by Zaitokukai members at rallies hel
Spin and substance
IN OSAKA’s strongly Korean Tsuruhashi district, a 14-year-old Japanese girl went out into the streets last year calling through a loudspeaker for a massacre of Koreans. In Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo neighbourhood, home to one of the largest concentrations of Koreans in Japan, many people say the level of anti-foreigner vitriol—on the streets and on the internet—is without modern precedent. Racists chant s
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