In the news today

[Ryllharu]

I think that there is a very fine line here between preserving cultural points, and xenophobic racism. It's not that they're trying to get rid of, or ignore, or diminish other cultures. they're just trying to keep them definably different, and keep them separate.
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but here in Japan, we're going to try and keep our authentic ethnic culture alive and unique, so that not only us, but others can learn of it and experience it too.

Bullshit.

You just described a consdensed version of the justification that all too many have used for ethnic clensing. You did a pretty admirable job not using the word, "Purify," while still hitting on the concept. They're just not using lethal force to do it.

If they want the international business, and they want the tourism, Japan needs to stop acting so two-faced.

It's this kind of behavior that also has the Chinese pissed off at them all time. Like their new PM making an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine a few days ago (almost always after they promise not to go for the improvement of international relations) or the issues the Chinese made a fuss about textbooks watering-down the attrocities that the international war criminals honored at the Yasukuni shrine committed.

[Kraco]

Like their new PM making an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine a few days ago (almost always after they promise not to go for the improvement of international relations) or the issues the Chinese made a fuss about textbooks watering-down the attrocities that the international war criminals honored at the Yasukuni shrine committed.

As far as I know, the shrine isn't there to honour war criminals but all those who died fighting for the Japanese Empire. According to Wikipedia it lists 2.5 million names. War criminals make up a tiny portion of it. Most of those people never committed any war crimes and deserve to be remembered by the progeny. I'm not saying it wouldn't be better if the criminals were somewhere else instead, but this is how they decided to do it.