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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of English media are also not reporting (I wonder why?) that a big reason why Kei Komuro was reviled by the Japanese public is because there were rumors that his family has Korean ancestry. Japan is still deeply, deeply racist against Koreans and ethnic Koreans.

Truly shameful.[/quote]

I appreciate your post.  The protests and hatred seemed so disconnected to anything that I could understand. I think the English and American media have their own issues with how they often report and don’t report on racism and discrimination.  The British press would have to face the all too close parallels with the racism that their own Royal Family handled less than wonderfully, and their own press handled abysmally.  The US press would have to have writers and editors capable of an uncommon amount of nuance when writing about cultural issues in a historical context. We don’t do this well when discussing the US, let alone when discussing other countries and cultures. [/quote]

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