Post date: Apr 28, 2014 9:31:51 PM
This week, I researched about ‘Net Uyoku’, or ‘Netouyo’, its clipped form. This word, net uyoku, is a kind of Japanese net slang word, and there are no definite meaning of it, because this word was introduced in around 2005. And sometimes this word involves contempt or indignity. I was very surprised when I found the word ‘net right’ in the New York Times, the column concerned about today’s Japanese’s acts, which suggestive of the new nationalism or right wing movements. Net uyoku is used to describe people who complain about Japanese politics and parties, especially the Democratic Party of Japan and issues about relationships between China and Korea. But sometimes the word is also used to draw zainichi people, with a slightly shade of contempt. I sometimes see this word, when I see some bbs or comments on news. But my friends said she have never heard the word. So, I have wanted to hear about knowledge about this word. And by the next week, I will research about the relationships between Japan and other Asian countries, especially Korea and China. I know some of Japanese and some of Korean hates each other, and I heard a corporate survey in Japan and Korea, I want to know about it.
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The New York Times: new Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign. Aug.28, 2010
Japan Times: Xenophobia finds fertile soil in web anonymity. Jan. 8, 2013