🇯🇵 | Japanese football fans are right now a reason for outrage, especially among East Asians.
Following the latest win by Japan at the ongoing FIFA World Cup against Tunesia, Japanese fans inside the stadium but also in Tokyo have displayed the “Rising Sun” flag used by Imperial Japan.
For East Asians and Southeast Asians, the Japanese imperial flag symbolizes some of the most notorious crimes imaginable. Under the Rising Sun flag, Japanese forces occupied, colonized, plundered, and killed tens of millions of people.
While only some people raised the imperial flag at today’s celebrations, thousands of others were seen celebrating next to it seemingly unbothered at Shibuya Crossing in the Japanese capital.
Japan has been repeatedly criticized by victim nations of its imperial era for never having been actively cleansed of its fascist elements or having paid significant reparations.
JR新宿駅東南口で参政党をはじめ差別・排外主義に加担する政治家に議席を与えてはいけないと訴える抗議集会「RAVE AGAINST RACISM」が行われています。国内外で活躍するDJらが排外主義を押し返したいと多様性溢れる”クラブ“を路上に設置。「参政党には投票しない」と自然発生的にコールが上がります。