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On the night of the 13th at 11:8 pm, after a 7.3 Richter earthquake occurred in the offshore of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, a rumor is floating around, saying, “I saw the Koreans burning poison in the well of Fukushima.” In the confusion of the Great Kanto Earthquake that occurred on September 1, 1923, rumors such as’The Koreans detoxified the well’ and’The Koreans are arson’ return to mind, and thousands of Koreans were slaughtered by vigilantes. This is a tweet.
Japanese netizens criticized the tweets that reminded them of the historical tragedy of the Great Kanto Earthquake massacre of Koreans. One netizen criticized it as “the worst and worst incitement of discrimination that reminds people of the Great Kanto Earthquake that Koreans in Japan cannot stand.” Amid criticism, the Twitter account that posted the tweet in question has been deleted.
Even during the Kumamoto earthquake in 2016, the rumor that “the Koreans spread poison to a well” spread on the Internet and hurt Koreans in Japan. Hashimoto Gotoe, who had a history of running as a candidate for the’Party of Hope’ in the 2017 House of Representatives election, said through his Twitter account, “There are people who are conspiracy theories that Koreans were slaughtered after the Great Kanto Earthquake.” “We should never forget the immigrants who raped Japanese women afterwards.”
Hashimoto, who posted an article that seemed to promote discrimination against foreigners, is introducing himself to his Twitter account as a member of the Japan Conference, a right-wing organization in Japan.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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