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Am 22.05.2017 um 20:24 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism:
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(From a Harper's magazine article behind a paywall. Contact me if
you'd like a copy.)
Yet not even Japanese excellence could insulate the country from
economic disaster. In 1990, the stock and real-estate markets
collapsed. Desperation and bitterness gave way to a proliferation of
angry nationalist rallies, which have continued to the present day.
Protesters took to gathering in the streets and harassing ethnic
minorities, whom they accuse of taking away their jobs. Koichi Nakano,
a political scientist who studies these groups at Sophia University,
in Tokyo, told me, “These are basically spontaneous, rather fluid
networks of haters.” Most are working-age men who have never managed
to find secure employment; Nakano said that 37 percent of Japanese
workers today have sporadic, temporary positions.
When I was in Tokyo, not long ago, on any given day I would see dozens
of people carrying Japanese flags and shouting vague, violent threats
in minority neighborhoods or outside foreign embassies. Nakano
estimates that there are more than a hundred nationalist groups that
convene across the country. They are not on the fringe: A leader of
the group Zaitokukai, which has called for a large-scale massacre of
Korean residents, has been photographed hobnobbing with a senior
member of the Liberal Democratic Party, the current ruling party.
Several L.D.P. officials have been photographed posing with the head
of a neo-Nazi group in front of a Japanese flag. Even the more
centrist members of the L.D.P. proudly refer to their country’s ethnic
makeup as “homogeneous” — an impossible claim to make of a former
colonial empire. Nearly half of Abe’s cabinet belongs to a group known
as the League for Going to Worship Together at Yasukuni, a shrine in
Tokyo that commemorates Japanese soldiers, including a number of
convicted war criminals. Abe’s wife makes pilgrimages to Yasukuni, and
Abe sends offerings on holidays.
One afternoon, I attended a festival at the Yasukuni Shrine. The
entrance was lined with tens of thousands of paper lanterns emitting a
warm, golden light. Visitors wandered around eating vanilla soft
serve. I asked a man why the festival was so important to him.
“Koreans!” he said, and thrust his middle finger into the air. “Fuck
Chinese!” He wore a shirt with a Japanese flag and text that read
Japanese! be proud! you are the descendants of the Yamato race.
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