Japan: The psychology of right-wing nationalist intellectuals

Blogger Niphonese writes about the phenomenon of Japanese going to study in Europe, then returning to Japan and joining right-wing nationalist groups [Ja]: “After experiencing discrimination in Europe, these Japanese people think to themselves: ‘Westerners talk about these things like human rights and so on, pretending like they don't know. There is discrimination in the West. So what is so wrong about Japanese also discriminating?'”

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  • Mentality of the Right-Wing Reactionary Intellectuals…

    The following article is English version of an article of my Japanese weblog. This is not a faithful translation; I have added some information and made slight changes so that non-Japanese readers can understand the text easily. Those who study in the …

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