Recent Japanese X Posts On Korea Worship In The Japanese Media
"The Japanese mass media isn’t reporting for the sake of Japanese. It’s clearly acting in order to make the position of a certain country dominant within Japan."
As many of you are no doubt aware, Koreans in Japan are massively overrepresented among entertainers and the staff of entertainment companies. The left weaponizes a narrative of Korean suffering under colonialism that includes the comfort women, wartime labor mobilization, and the effort to assimilate Koreans by exhorting them to adopt Japanese names and abandon the use of their language to inspire the equivalent of White guilt in the population. At the same time, they have been propagating worship of Koreans, or Koreolatry, with increasing fervor for some years now. Many Japanese are sick of it and have begun to raise their voices. I translate below some recent posts on this topic that blew up.
Whenever I write that TV shows are shoving Korea down our throats, that on music shows Korea is on the rise and Japanese artists get fewer slots, I always get replies saying things like, “I don’t watch TV so I don’t care,” or “Then just don’t watch them.”
Are you really okay with that?
Even I know that there are more and more Koreans at every broadcasting station.
But are you really okay with a situation in which Japanese will stop watching all shows aired in Japan using Japanese airwaves and TV shows take the Korean point of view even more exclusively?
I am not.
That’s why I’m raising my voice.
About that, whenever I come back to Japan after spending a few years abroad, I feel like the Japanese media’s promotion of Korea has reached astounding levels. I have the impression that Japanese TV stations and major media are going on and on about how great Korea and Koreans are. When I was in Britain, other parts of Europe, and Australia, there was no such thing as the Korean Wave boom, and I myself don’t know about and hadn’t even heard of those BTS guys. Educated people are different, but basically, ignorant Americans and others don’t really distinguish between China, South Korea, and Japan, so they would always ask me, a Japanese, any questions they had about Asia. As far as I can remember I was never asked about South Korea. Despite the fact that I was asked innumerable times about North Korea and China. (Of course I was asked about Japan the most). In spite of that, I feel like the Japanese mass media and major media report on Korea almost every day and are always promoting some Korean Wave idol with tons of makeup that I’ve never heard of. By the way, in the developed countries of the West there’s been an astounding Japan boom for the past ten years, and Japanese culture boasts massive popularity especially among the youth like Millennials and Generation Z. I never used to have any interest at all in Japanese manga, anime, or games, but if anything had an instinctive aversion to them for being nerdy, but when I first lived abroad I was astounded to find that even many in the social Whites around me liked manga and anime. Very cute supermodel-like European girls would fervently talk at me about anime, and a super stern and muscular black once lectured me for not having seen Evangelion. Under their influence I started to watch anime and read manga, and of course I got really into it, and now I love them. Especially after COVID Japanese culture has exploded all over the world, so much so that we’ve started to see articles about how the number of foreign anime watchers has grown by forty times. This might be my direct impression, but I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all. Up to now manga, anime, music, video games, pop culture, even traditional culture, in any case Japanese culture is loved particularly in the West and we have benefited from that. However, for some reason Japanese TV stations and major media hardly report on the Japan boom abroad. A little while ago Mario grossed over a billion dollars becoming the second-highest grossing film in anime and manga history. Even just recently Godzilla reached first place and Ghibli films continue to hold second place, a momentous achievement. Even though all Western movie review influencers were talking about it, the Japanese media was totally silent. Yoasobi reigns at the top of world charts, and I’ve read articles on Google’s aggregator that he shone in first place this year, but I’ve never seen major Japanese media report on it. Also, when Attack on Titan reigned as the most watched TV show in 2023 on IMBD (a widely used global platform for gathering and sharing information on movies and TV), the Japanese media didn’t report report on it at all, but as usual talked only about how awesome Korea is and how awesome Korean plastic surgery idols are. The Japanese mass media isn’t reporting for the sake of Japanese. It’s clearly acting in order to make the position of a certain country dominant within Japan. This might be obvious to everyone, but once you view things from outside Japan you cannot but feel more intensely the abnormality of the Japanese media. It recently came to light that a Korean religious organization has been deeply involved in the Japanese political world for many years, but Koreans haven’t just sunk their roots into the Japanese political world, it’s clearer than day that they have also deeply penetrated Japan’s corrupt TV industry and mass media.
I agree. Have recently started to notice this with K-Pop influencing Japanese Idol Pop which is very refined compared to Korean pop. Nogizaka46 and similar are beautiful and classy. K-pop is like Asian black music.
All koreaboos in the west are fat lesbianoids. Are Japanese that buy into koreashite similar?