Indian athletes arrived in Japan for the Asian Games. They waited 14 hrs for an accommodation.
If this were India, people would have opened their homes, 5 star hotels would have been booked. Still we would have been hauled over coals. Very few cultures respect guests more than…
Genta Koja, the candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling coalition, is set to win Sunday’s Okinawa gubernatorial election, defeating incumbent Denny Tamaki, Kyodo News projections showed.
A win for Koja would provide a tailwind for Takaichi’s government as it pushes for the contentious relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan to the coastal Henoko area in Nago within the southern island prefecture.
Koja, 42, a former deputy Naha mayor and central government bureaucrat, will be the first Okinawa governor in 12 years to accept the relocation plan.
He is set to be the first Okinawa governor born after 1972, the year when the island was returned to Japan, having been under U.S. control since Japan’s defeat in World War II in 1945.
You can read more at the link, but Koja’s election win shows how popular Takaichi is in Japan that even Okinawa now strongly backs her. This is significant because China has been trying to foment popular dissent against the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa. With the Tamaki gone the base relocation plan will now face no political opposition on Okinawa.
What else will not face political opposition is the deployment of Japanese Self Defense Forces to the islands southwest of Okinawa that the Governor is also responsible for. These forces were deployed to the islands in response to increasing Chinese and even Russian naval, air, and missile activities around the islands.
Once again, Chinese threats against Japan are being answered by its voters choosing stronger security over appeasement. You would think China would have learned by now that the more belligerent it is toward Japan, the more it will choose leaders who are strong on security. However, President Emperor Xi and his underlings just cannot help themselves because anti-Japanese sentiment is a core value of the CCP since it is an effective way to distract their internal population from domestic issues when needed.
"Economists say Japan needs 6.9 million immigrants for 1.2% GDP growth"
Are we really still doing this in 2026?
The West has already tried this experiment & shown that immigrants from the Third World are a significant drain on their economies. pic.twitter.com/bLYLPdoce3
— 🇯🇵 Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper 🇯🇵 (@politicalawake) September 1, 2026
The Japanese are definitely trying to improve the quality of foreigners living in Japan:
The most drastic shifts impact those who plan to stay in Japan for the longest – those applying for permanent residency, a status that grants rights to work, unlimited entries, and infinite stay.
Effective from October, applicants are required to have an income level higher than that of average Japanese households. And from next April, aspiring permanent residents need to have a projected pension fund equivalent to 30 years of payouts. They also have to speak intermediate-level Japanese.
“Considering that permanent resident is the most stable status of residence, this revision makes necessary updates to the application of independent livelihood and national interest requirements to ensure applicants do not become a public burden,” said Hiraguchi during a press conference last month.
Earlier this year, the government also tightened rules for foreign business owners, raising the capital requirement of a business manager visa popular among entrepreneurs from five million yen ($31,000) to 30 million ($126,000).
🇯🇵 Many Muslims in Japan struggle to buy groceries because many things contain pork emulsifiers.
This lady, for example, contacts the manufacturer to ask them if it's halal. Since she hasn't contacted them, she tells her kids that she can't buy the snack for them.
Everyone complaining about this influencer gave him the attention he was seeking:
Japanese influencer Gamix (left) and K-pop band Ateez member San (Gamix’s Instagram account)
A Japanese influencer with more than 2 million followers on Instagram has come under fire online for making a racist eye gesture mocking Ateez member San’s performance at Seoul World Cup Stadium.
Local media reported Friday that the influencer, who goes by the name Gamix, uploaded a video Thursday recreating the K-pop singer’s dance performance to the song “Bad.”
In the video, Gamix wore a shirt made to look like the Atletico Madrid jersey that San wore during a ceremonial kickoff before a match at Seoul World Cup Stadium on Aug. 9. A photo of San wearing the shirt was displayed at the bottom of the video.
🇯🇵 A they/them foreigner in Japan screams "Fuck Sanseito (our right-wing party). Fuck Trump and fuck Takaichi!".
When we say "We don't want foreigners coming here" this is exactly the type of person we are talking about. People like this are taking advantage of the good will of…
