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Over the last week tere's been a bit of a public discussion in Japan between two clothing brand CEOs concerning immigration. The men involved are Tadashi Yanai, the 75 year old CEO of Uniqlo, and Yusaku Maezawa, the 48 year old CEO of ZOZO.

Yanai made inflammatory statements earlier this week, saying that Japan will die unless it starts accepting mass immigration. His statement literally translates to "Japanese people will perish" (日本人は滅びる).

Maezawa gave a harsh rebuttal on Twitter, saying that what makes Japan is it's people, and that instead of diluting that people by pandering to globalization, Japanese people should instead unite and make the most of what is uniquely Japanese in order to become a stronger people. He also... compared Japan's situation to the manga, Kingdom, saying that a people's morale and confidence can overcome any hardship. He finishes with
>Our country is great, isn't it? I think it's an incredibly good country. The people, the climate, and the culture are wonderful. I really love it.

Maezawa's supporters are overwhelming, and arguments are being made of how bad the west has suffered from mass immigration. Yanai's supporters are concerned that Maezawa's attitude will one day plunge Japan into another major war.

I'm posting this here so that we can see how this issue is being discussed in an alien culture, and that even though a lot of gay zog elements are present, there's still things you can publicly say and show support for without being destroyed by the system. Imagine if someone said the same about White people in any western country. We have the senior citizen chain store executive that wants to flood the country and lower wages, nothing new, but then we have the young explicitly racial nationalist who's also a fucking nerd and a little idealistic. I think that's interesting.

This has been your peak into foreign internal politics.

sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/08/27/kiji/20240827s00041000072000c.html

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