The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“From a ban on new foreign arrivals to a campaign against efforts to let non-citizens vote, a series of developments in Japan is raising new concerns about xenophobia in Asia’s second-largest economy.
“Lawmakers in the Tokyo suburb of Musashino overruled the local mayor Wednesday and rejected a bill that would’ve allowed residents of other nationalities to vote on some issues. The decision came after several prominent Liberal Democratic Party legislators launched a campaign against the plan, with former Vice Foreign Minister Masahisa Sato warning on Twitter that “80,000 Chinese people” could move to the city and influence its politics.
“Last month, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government initiated new border controls that ban new entries by foreigners due to concerns about the omicron variant of Covid-19. Separately, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo issued an unusual warning Dec. 6 about suspected racial profiling of foreigners by local police — an allegation the government has denied. . . .
“It’s not only in Japan that the pandemic fanned xenophobic sentiments, but this is a country with a long-standing tradition of insular nationalist conservatism,” said Koichi Nakano, a professor of political science at Sophia University. Already before Covid, nationalism was exploited by some politicians to divert public attention away from real domestic ills they did not want to deal with. . . “ –Xenophobia Spills into Japan’s Covid Era Debate on Immigration, Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg, 12/26.21 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: It’s bad enough that Establishment media outlets like Bloomberg want to ruin our country with unending mass immigration and multiculturalism. But along with that, they want to spread their madness abroad. This article, which takes aim at the nation of Japan, is a case in point. The Japanese have shown far more intelligence about immigration than the United States and other Western countries. As a consequence, Tokyo is still a Japanese city, unlike London which is now less than one-half ethnic-English.
The Japanese wish to preserve the character of their country. They are accepting more immigrants than in the past, but not enough to make Japanese feel like strangers in their own country. This is the sensible nationalism that the Bloomberg author Isabel Reynolds tries to discredit as “xenophobia,” the hatred of foreigners. And just how are Japanese being hateful if they don’t want foreigners to vote in their country? Restricting the vote to citizens isn’t hate; it’s patriotic common sense. So too, it is reasonable, and not malicious, for Japan or any other country to exclude foreigners who may spread disease.
Do mass immigration advocates believe in countries at all? Do they think that any exercise of national sovereignty is evil? It certainly seems so. An appropriate term to describe them is “globalists,” people who want to erase national boundaries everywhere in pursuit of profits and power. They are totally indifferent to the masses of people world-wide who want to keep their national identities and cultures.