Akihabara has seen noisy demonstrations by extreme right-wing groups demanding the expulsion of the Chinese from Japan.
The protests took the form of a small march of flag-waving demonstrators through the main Akihabara thoroughfares, though with a few hundred participants at most the rally was a far cry from earlier demonstrations in Shibuya and at the Chinese embassy.
As is often the case with small right-wing demonstrations in Japan, demonstrators were at times in danger of being outnumbered by their police entourage (although with violence at such demonstrations practically unknown this appears to be more for the look of the thing than as a real precaution) – unusually however, the guard may for once have been more than warranted as there are reports of the group behaving belligerently.
A variety of observers photographed the protest:
The group was much less mainstream than the other recent demonstrations – whereas those demonstrations were organised by “Ganbare Nippon!” with the support of comparatively well known establishment figures espousing only (strongly) nationalist policies, this demonstration was apparently organised by one of the shady extreme right-wing fringe groups known for their black sound trucks and racist xenophobia.
In this case the tone was far more shrill than anything heard at the larger events – placards read “Chinese are the enemies of humanity! The whole world hates them!”, “Chase the Chinese out of Japan!”, and the group massed outside Sofmap, accusing them of being traitors for selling to Chinese tourists.
Some of the demonstration’s literature can be seen below – “Protect Senkaku and Akihabara from Chinese invasion! Hound the traitorous merchants who toady up to the Chinese out of Japan!”
The choice of Akihabara evidently has much to do with it being a major destination for Chinese tourists – shopping is one of the major draws for tourists from China, and naturally Akihabara tends to feature heavily in this kind of travel itinerary, with there being large numbers of stores specialising in hawking duty-free electronic merchandise to largely Chinese shoppers.
Whilst the group in question is clearly less than sensible, their reasoning in targeting such stores is not entirely unsound – two of the major economic interest groups supporting Japanese appeasement of China are manufacturers with big investments in China, and the domestic tourist/retail industry, hungry for more visitors as it is.
Naturally, covering the event was out of the question for the media – reports were largely limited to Akihabara workers grumbling about the real world impinging upon their fantasy realm or the possible loss of business from annoying the Chinese.
With Chinese aggression plain for all to see and a government whose diplomatic policy towards China appears to be that of a vassal to its master, a more ideal breeding ground for resurgent Japanese nationalism could hardly be envisaged.
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Well guys, one part of the reaction of 2ch...here they are!!
Sauce: 2ch copypasta blog.
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109:Why the * is using sofmap attack to revenge?
327:What the fucking relation with sofmap and senkaku?
Protest is free but don't make problems to the others.
331:Poor shop manager
3:It is a revenge to a atack against Japanese cooking managed by chinese.
13:Too indirect lol
29:I can see only as yakuza.
31:joking aside it is awful... I thought that was a moderated demo first time.
38:They attacked wrong persons so don't get public opinion as ally.
Their looks are very bad so should at least have more prudence about their actions.
46:What the * Sofmap has did?
Really, this is a nasty group.
What they think usually every day?
680:It's forcible obstruction of business. Arrest them.
55:I cant understand the brains what think put this shit in the net and will gain support of society.
132 I was laughting about chinese attacking itoyokado but now I can't laught them. Really mental illned, those *ers.
59:They want it go to the media? They are crazy.
60:Why attack sofmap! They should attack traitor politicians like Sengoku, are they dumbass?
66:Is it zaitokukai?
Channel Sakura was getting to be accepted at great pains and now the anti-china protest's image is completely destroyed!!
87:Who got more damage of it was the Channel Sakura what are making protests correctly, piecefully.
It's common. If 2 country relationship is about to crash, only fool will stay and bear the anger of the public. For their safety, just fucking return to the land where "no dogs and Japanese" allow.
And here I thought it was just US politics that was filled with crazy people. It's just the world is full of crazies.
The argument is much based on territory and nationalism. US politics on the other hand is the fuckin definition of Madness fused with Insanity birthing Crazy motherfucking hypocrites.
racism + nationalism = assholes
Waiting for celestial being to begin armed intervention.
you watch to much Gundam 00 :p
so long G5 is still excise nothing is going to chance :p
so peoples only watch the mechas only for the robots :p and not for the meaning of the stories ??
should know war will only made more hates ....
I would rather choose war than a false peace.
far out this bs is gna kill my holiday in decemeber
Its the Illuminati I tell you the ILLLUMINAATTIIIIIIII!!!!!!!
Finally! some patriotism from the younger generation!
Why are people assuming these were Otakus? It's pretty clear from the article that this was some fringe right wing group that came to spread propaganda. It's not like this doesn't happen every day in Japan (the black vans). The same going on here in the US with the "Tea Party".
The only real way to settle this conflict appears to be to find another entity that both nations can direct their hatred and anger towards.
*looks at Korea*
North or South?
East Asians need to get over themselves.
Japanese Xenophobia and Racism at it's finest.
Oh who cares.. the Chinese are yelling pretty much the same thing in the Mainland...
you should check out some of the korean protests, its the dumbest most xenophobic racist shit I've ever seen.
That's right. There's stupids in both countries.
It's humanity, I hear ya.
Now that Akibahara disapproves of chinese to set foot there, chinese otaku's might be done for.
The factory will sell knockoffs directly in Hong Kong.Close enough.
Hey Hey I know..... Weren't all these Japanese people 1/1023124592 Chinese?
HAHA!
Haha Japs getting buttmad.
When I encounter these right-wing fuckers some times in Japan, I would just troll the fuck out of them by blocking their way and tell them to suck my chinese dick.
They want my money? Then they should fucking beg for it.
I've been noticing on the internet Chinese talk a lot of shit. Worse than a Filipino or the average troll. You should be ashamed for being so lame. ):
Truth hurts, bud.
Japan with their absolutely shit economy and 200% debt in relation to their GDP cannot piss off their customer China too much...
Me, as a Chinese tourist in Japan, could just deny them my money if they piss me off with their racism. And there's nothing they can do about it.
I was commenting about the shit talking, not about your delusion about being in Japan and having money.
You're not helping.
No, you've just been noticing a small subset of the Chinese that tend to be ignorant and parade their nationality. There are a lot of intelligent things on the internet written by Chinese, and you wouldn't guess it if you didn't know. Chinese people have pretty avarege intelligence, which means there are a lot of really smart people in there, many more than say... the US or EU.
I can understand Chinese having animosity towards Japanese what with what happened during WWII, but I don't understand vice versa. It must be purely butthurt and envy that China didn't end up America's bitch. :(
small dicked island nations.
historically, they were always aggressive and xenophobic by nature, since their island-origin forced them to invade other continental countries to expand and to secure their resources.
Japan is a extreme case thereof.
Shit just got real.
LOL, whole world hates them?
China is half the world so... half the world hates them?
There alot chin ese in america too lol fail
This is getting pretty fkn stupid. they better start growing up before people start getting hurt.
right around the time i wanted to visit japan too...
Imagine this:
Some foreign power, captures your country's innocent citizens out of clearly political motives, claims ownership on land that have been in possession of your country for 50+ years, and tells you to fuck off. All attempts at diplomacy fail. What would you do?
If you just thought of a violent solution, then you my friend are a hypocrite.
I too often feel inclined to hate the chinese, I mean, they look at em and how they behave.
If it wasn't for that damn cheap labour and all the mineral resources they have.
Don't hate the people. Most humans have a sheep-like mindset. That doesn't apply only to Chinese, but to pretty much everyone. If you hate them, you will have to hate anyone who isn't an idealist or opportunist.
Direct your hatred at the last group. They are the ones responsible for fucking most things up.
The island is china
2ch massive meet up?
Best way to keep them in line is to send maids out to them.
And all my figures are made in China these days...
I say it's good that there's a lot more police presence there, but I'm surprised there are no counter-protests however, to not report it could be seen as com pliancy on part of the media.
If this thing starts to pick up steam it could be a problem, and don't say it won't happen, look what happened to the tea party.. and we all know how much a bunch of right wing nutjob racists those guys are!
No counter protest because it's not a serious movement to normal people.
Uyoku dantai involvement? I see the black vehicles...
Wow man!
This site is like the english counterpart of 2ch, based on some comments here :)
Except one side is actually Japanese and the other is Wapanese.
I'm chikyuujin myself.
I predict at least 3 sarcasm detector failures.
As much as I hate the Chinese government and the right-wingers, it doesn't change the fact that I hate most right-wingers (not that I like hardcore left-wingers...), especially ridiculous ones like these. Just because the government of their native land is full of shit, it doesn't make them assholes, as well.
It is said that：When will the retribution be ending？Maybe Until one side surrender~
But for this problem，we should realize who make the first mistake！
If that group is racist and xenophobic, how would they know that the whole world hates Chinese people?
Chances are people mistaken those protests as otakus who want better ero games!
Japanese Police: Aw shit, we have to actually do stuff now....dammit!