gaijinalways
puzzled gaijin
- 15 Jan 2006
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Many Japanese believe that the severest Japan bashing is based on more than the economic/social/etc. issues at hand. In fact, the major newspapers implied, at the height of the Japan bashing frenzy, that anti-Japanese racism was a big part of it. I think I would agree with that.
And your evidence for this comes from......
I would think lot of the things in the Japanese media point to the opposite conclusion. Look at the reporting of 'foreign' crime in Japan. Even though the percntage of foreign crime is low (and lower than Japanese based as a percntge of the population living here), it is reported approximately 2.5 times more than Japanese caused crimes (guess that lets the Akihabara killer off the hook, maybe not). Oh, but it's not racist, just biased I suppose.