Some call them the "KKK of Japan". I think that title is a little overboard. These guys, called the "uyoku" are the right-wing groups trying to bring back the Japan of the past. As you may know, Japan has no military (just a small self-defense force). They want Japan to bring back its military program and start flexing their muscle around Asia...like they did back in the 30s when they killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian races.
Their message is simple; "Rid Japan of ALL foreign influences". No imported cars, no foreign companies, no foreign PEOPLE, no nothing. There are difference factions each with a specific cause. One thing they ALL have in common is they think the emperor of Japan is a divine being and should be respected as such. So there is a faction who have accepted the reality that America is Japan's "bodyguard" and they praise America. If America is protecting Japan, that means they are protecting the emperor, too. If North Korea or China attacks, America will be the first line of defense. Japan is North Korea's prime target for an assault. While the uyoku don't take kindly to foreigners, most of their hate is directed towards Chinese and Koreans.
Their destination is the Yasukuni Shrine. Yasukuni is Japan's equivalent to the Arlington National Cemetery. This is where all of Japan's soldiers are enshrined. Even the class-A war criminal, Hideki Tojo. Yasukuni has a large collection of Japan's weapons of war. From samurai swords from hundreds of years ago, to cannons used to attack Nanking. Whenever a Japanese polictician visits this shrine, China and Korea shit up a storm. Japan's military is viewed by China and Korea the way the Jewish view the Nazis. Imagine if the current chancellor of Germany visited a memorial dedicated to Nazi soldiers and Hitler. That's how bad it is.
Last August I knew they were going to have another Tokyo invasion, so I drove down there to get in the thick of it. Some foreign tourists who didn't know what was going on were harassed. They were taking pictures and the uyoku members were about ready to break their cameras. They were the typical anime geek types who come to Japan so they can brag to their anime cliques back home, so I was kinda hoping they would get theirs. Those are the types who think Japan is Disneyland or something. It's not. FAR from it.You Racketboy members who live in Japan know what I am talking about.
Now, when I got inside they assumed I was Japanese and left me alone...which is how I was able to take pictures from the inside.
The governor of Tokyo (Tokyo is technically a state, not a city) knows when these guys are coming around, but he won't really do anything to stop them. He's had relationships with them in the past. The Tokyo governor is pretty open about his bigotry. He's done public speeches with no tact whatsoever. He mostly puts down North and South Koreans...and if he has time, the Chinese as well.
They come from all over Japan by the busload with patriotic slogans
painted all over their vehicles and proganda blaring from those huge speakers.
They driver around like that and it's really annoying.
This is an anti-Uyoku group ready to confront them.
End America's tyranny!
Police block more of them from getting near the Yasukuni Shrine
A pro-American but Anti-everything else facion's van. (Chevy Astro!)
A member preaching to the crowds about the Japanese being the superior Asian nation.
The police readying themselves for hell!
The Shrine is never this crowded. Only when the Uyoku roll around.
Inside the Yasukuni Shrine's annex building.
The bald guy is actually a well-known Uyoku leader. I've seen him on TV
a few times. He's like some well-educated scholar who went to one of Japan's
top schools. He's wasting his smarts on ignorance, I'd say!
Here's a pic of him I stole from his site:
Here's his party's site.
WARNING: IT IS NOT WORK SAFE!
http://www.nsjap.com/
The Uyoku are financed mostly by the Yakuza, and that's them watching from the sidelines.
"ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO FOREIGNERS!"
Police blocking the entrance of the shrine.
Some Korean guy getting chased away for saying some Anti-Japanese remarks.
Praising the Japanese military under Tojo's watch
Police directing them to go away. That blockade on the right was only
opened for non uyoku cars.
OK, now that is just funny.
