there is literally zero coverage of this from any american/western news outlet. zero. not even exaggerating. pretty much only some japs and some anti-american chinese propagandists are talking about this on sns. it's hard for me think this is normal when weird shit about japanese can get a million views from time to time in the western media. i think it's because of today's polarized media landscape that's becoming more and more narrative-driven. on the one hand, conservatives never want to deal with this kind of news, and on the other hand, liberals decide that it has no news value because the japanese have no social victim status and it's safe to ignore for them since only several japanese would talk about it in english. as a result, it gets zero media coverage from them.
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