Nazi?

[Everlasting]

I look at pictures of Japan a lot and I saw something that I actually didn't like. This guy had a red sleeve thing on and it had a nazi simbol. I also saw that some pictures on the sidewalks had them too. Are the Japanese nazis?

[Buraku]

even though Japanaese were best chums with Hitler back in the days
there aren't really many neo-nazis in Japan this was more likely an uyoku group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku

However the Uyoku in Japan are ssoooo far-right they are kind of nutty-fascists and even make American rightwingers appear sane or hippie like





The Tokyo-gov has more or less been proven to be a Uyoku member, and although he is frequently up to no good the Japanese even re-elected him

[Buraku]

As I explained before there is no middle ground in J-politics so the media is filled with garbage, the J-gov press releases will tell you there is no Uyoku

the only news that seems to report on the Uyoku activity is the JP-indymedia or
Asahi Shimbun which would be left leaning news sources so you take them with a pinch of salt
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/2608/index.php
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200604080124.html
Japantimes is ok, but guys like debito don't focus on the larger issues and tend to be stuck on some discrimination story about some anti-Gaijin signs

[times-up]

Im not sure about the arm band probably just some dude that doesnt know any better. The other "swatikas" probably arent what your thinking swastikas should be clockwise if they are counter clockwise it is also used as a buddhist symbol. Stop trying to be offended.

[kurohinge1]

I look at pictures of Japan a lot and I saw something that I actually didn't like ...

It was bound to happen.

... This guy had a red sleeve thing on and it had a nazi simbol. I also saw that some pictures on the sidewalks had them too. Are the Japanese nazis?

Without photos/links, who knows? But the guy could've been a cosplayer - a disorder that can now be treated with heavy medication and shock therapy - but the sidewalk symbols (as times-up has alluded to) were probably just a Buddhist symbol.

You can read about the history of the Swastika symbol on wikipedia. Fascinating stuff. It's up there with checking water levels in dams (no offence, dimwit-san) in my "things I like to do on a Saturday night".

In any event, the symbol was around thousands of years before the Nazis.

... By the early 20th century [the Swastika] was widely used worldwide and was regarded as a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness ...

"When good signs turn bad"

[hakuman]

Very likely (as someone else said) it was a backwards swastica, a symbol of buddhist temples. You can often see the same symbol on maps.

[Everlasting]

Um, well a more recent pic I saw was the guy from Dir en Grey (A creepy band IMO) with one on. I'm not offended, although I don't like racism I was just wondering. I'll look for the pic.

[Buraku]

they could just be some 'cosplayers' meaning nothing serious, just young geeks ( or sometimes old J-folks with the mind of a kid ) dressing up and looking silly




however you do find ultra-nationalist bands in Japan something like you'd find Neo-Nazi music in the USA
You'll know Uyoku when you spot them, they've kinda got that hardcore racial attitude like one might find with BlackPanthers or the KKK
The Uyoku boys ride around in black jeeps, extort money from J-business and play nazi marching music or shout anti-gaijin, anti-Korea, anti-American or yell imperialist slogans. They abuse newspaper guys and media people and if a mayor doesn't like what they say the mayor gets shot and killed,
recently they made a poor attempt to attack the Chinese consulate in Japan by ramming a burning bus into it kamikaze style

[TennoChinko]

Heil Hirohito!

Welcome to the Nationalist Socialist Party of Japan!

http://www.nsjap.net/

Now you must suckee my Imperial Cock. (it's that little shriveled thing between my legs)

Fuck the environment! Green Day is now MY day!

TennoChinko

[Greji]

Now you must suckee my Imperial Cock. (it's that little shriveled thing between my legs)

I'll take a pass on that, but you might try contacting buraku's dog, I understand he might be a switch hitter.

[Blah Pete]

The girls in front of the swastica flag are atcually Korean I think. Ther was a nazi themed bar in Korea and it made news a few years ago. The owners and patrons didn't think anything was wrong with it because it was just "style"...
The Koreans are just as screwed up as the Japanese.

[Everlasting]

they could just be some 'cosplayers' meaning nothing serious, just young geeks ( or sometimes old J-folks with the mind of a kid ) dressing up and looking silly

Yeah! That's it! The arm thing that that girl is wearing. Those are the super racist things right?

[dimwit]

That photo was dredged up by Buraku sometime ago and he seems to have a fetish about posting it. The photo was from a promo of a video game, perhaps Castle Wolfenstein but I can't remember. I think maybe it is about time someone considers some rules about posting the same images over and over again!:rolleyes:

[Buraku]

Those are the super racist things right?

Well Nazis aren't exactly nice people, they are fucking scum


However I heard from a reliable source that the picture above was taken in Singapore during a promotion for some WW2 video game, in other words the girls in the photo were just cosplayers dressing up in a silly nazi costume and they whole thing has no racial or political meaning...just shock advertising


As I said before if these guys wearing nazi symbols were Uyoku, you would know it straight away - Uyoku boys are a kind of political Yakuza ganster group with a strong foothold into the J-government. They ride around in black trucks, extort money from J-business and play nazi marching music or shout anti-gaijin, anti-Korea, anti-American or yell imperialist slogans, they have this nasty hardcore vibe about them like the BlackPanthers, or the KKK and do bad shit like kidnapp people kill mayors of Japanese towns...meaning the keystone J-cops do nothing.

EDIT -
I've only spotted the above post and there wasn't much need for me to reply here as dimwit already answered your question

[Taro Toporific]

Yeah! That's it! The arm thing that that girl is wearing. Those are the super racist things right?

Those are booth babes for the game, "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" . It's just a game...and the goal is to kill Nazis. The game has all sorts "super racist things" like cyborg, axe wielding skeletons, Nazi ninja, a "leather clad Nazi bitch", and zombies inside castle.




You are BJ Blazkowicz, a US Army Ranger recruited by the OSA and the Allies' top specialist in covert operations, heavy weapons, and assassination. Hitler's head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, ...

[Buraku]

I look at pictures of Japan a lot and I saw something that I actually didn't like. This guy had a red sleeve thing on and it had a nazi simbol. I also saw that some pictures on the sidewalks had them too.

Everlasting, remember Japan is kind of a nutty isolated place where people can dress up as nazis or you can buy black sambo books.... but the whole thing often has very little politcal meaning

post your picture and we'll be able to tell you if these guys are some kind of harmless cosplayers or if this is a true Uyoku group