Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Changing political winds in Japan
As others and I have reported before at PJ Media, the highly developed East Asian nation of Japan is under increasingly heavy pressure to commit the same kind of cultural suicide via migrant importation that the West is in the process of doing.
Until recently, Japan, not as deeply inculcated in self-hatred as the West, had resisted valiantly.
However, its largely neoliberal political leadership has relented to some degree in recent years.
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As a result, the archipelago is currently experiencing a small taste of what Western Europe’s been subjected to for decades in the form of cultural and demographic subversion.
It seems, though, the tides may be turning as popular backlash mounts.
Via Courage.Media (emphasis added):
Concerns around mass migration are a relatively recent development in Japanese politics. The nation was once a prime example of one of the few advanced economies that did not open its borders to large-scale migration. While European nations absorbed high volumes of migrants and asylum seekers, Japan maintained comparatively strict entry requirements.
However, that position has shifted incrementally over the past decade. Pressure from business groups and NGOs highlighting labour shortages and demographic contraction led to expanded visa categories and relaxed enforcement. As a result, the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased…
As in parts of Europe, Japan has begun to experience social issues and criminal behaviour that were rare in the pre-immigration period. In 2025 alone, a series of serious crimes committed by foreign nationals received widespread media coverage...
Immigration has not been the only source of tension. Tourism has also contributed to public frustration. In the first half of 2025, Japan welcomed 21.5 million foreign tourists, a 21% increase year on year. Alongside rising visitor numbers, a new form of disruptive behaviour emerged in the shape of so-called nuisance streamers. Some filmed themselves playing loud music on the subway, doing pull-ups on sacred torii gates, or recording dance routines on busy streets.
No figure became more associated with this phenomenon than Ramsey Khalid Ismael, known online as Jonny Somali*. He spent weeks harassing passengers on the subway, saying phrases such as “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, we’ll do it again.” In shops and restaurants he played text-to-speech messages at high volume. He was eventually arrested for trespassing and harassing workers at a construction site. The episode caused a national scandal, and he has since been banned from re-entering Japan. Frustrations with both tourism and immigration have therefore combined into a broader negative perception of foreigners among some sections of the public, who view these trends as altering the character of the country.
*If you have hitherto been unfamiliar with this odious creature, Jonny Somali, consider yourself blessed.
His entire shtick is traipsing around East Asia and starting disputes with locals through flagrant displays of disrespect, which apparently people find entertaining but which is an absolute debacle for international relations, as this cretin carries an American passport.
Johnny Somali's sidekick, Jino, gets checked again in Thailand pic.twitter.com/OiBEGveAMk
— Asian Dawn (@AsianDawn4) March 27, 2024
Another exhibit of the kind of weird “disruptive behavior… in the shape of so-called nuisance streamers” referenced in the above article is this obese black American tourist in Japan filming herself, against a backdrop of horrific music by an Atlanta rapper called Shawty Lo, passive-aggressively eating on a crowded street, which is considered uncouth, with the caption “black people in Japan doing everything they told me not to do.”
Urban American transgresses social norms in Asia for TikTok content pic.twitter.com/0vZltHZmrn
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) March 16, 2026
I’m not sure what the intended function of this display is supposed to be, except to make the Japanese more xenophobic.
If so, job well done.
Again, as someone who has lived abroad for many years and depends on the goodwill of the native populations — which they largely have for Americans, even, somewhat surprisingly, given the history, in Vietnam — I can’t describe the level of disgust this behavior invokes inside me.
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But whatever; if it leads to the banning of hood rats from the Far East, carry on making fools of yourselves.
Continuing:
The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi, called an early election on the 8th of February. The results marked a dramatic shift in the political landscape, unprecedented in scale in the post-war era. The Liberal Democratic Party now commands a supermajority in the lower house of the Diet, Japan’s legislature. Left-wing parties secured only five seats out of 465, while right-wing parties collectively won over 70% of the chamber. A small remaining minority belongs to centrist factions. Such a mandate is rare in modern democracies.
At the centre of this shift stands Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. In October 2024, the LDP lost its lower house majority for the first time in decades, ceding ground amid a corruption scandal and waning public confidence. By July 2025, the coalition had also ceded its majority in the upper house, leaving Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba presiding over a minority government beset by legislative gridlock. In September 2024, a leadership election resulted in hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi becoming leader of the party. Since becoming Prime Minister, her party’s popularity has grown substantially.
Under former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Japan had been expected to admit roughly 500,000 Indian nationals over the next five years, and over a two-year period the country was projected to absorb approximately 1.23 million new immigrants. Instead, Takaichi has begun moving toward stricter naturalisation standards, proposing a requirement of ten years of residency and demonstrable proficiency in the Japanese language before citizenship can be granted. A strict cap on immigration has also been proposed to limit damage to social harmony resulting from rising inflows of migrants. Immigration and mass tourism, she has argued, have produced “foreigner fatigue” among the public.
On constitutional matters, she supports revising Article 9, the clause that renounces war and restricts the maintenance of armed forces. While Japan already maintains Self-Defence Forces, some of the best equipped in the world, formal revision would carry considerable symbolic weight. Such moves represent a departure from the post-war pacifism established during the American occupation. Takaichi contends that the regional security environment, particularly the rise of China and persistent North Korean missile tests, necessitates a clearer constitutional foundation for defence…
For now, the electorate has issued a clear directive. Rapid demographic change is unwelcome. Cultural continuity matters. National sovereignty, in both border policy and defence posture, commands broad support. The consolidation of right-leaning power in the lower house provides the legislative capacity to act decisively on these priorities. It spells a definitive end to the brief period where Japan opened its doors to mass migration.
Ultra-based Japanese animation succinctly encapsulates replacement migration scheme
I haven’t cracked a genuine smile slogging through this kind of content, documenting the total subversion of national sovereignty of the West and certain highly developed countries in the Orient, for a good while.
To be honest, a lot of it is too demoralizing and soul-crushing to derive any entertainment from.
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But this here, a video produced by Japanese nationalists in contravention of all Social Justice™ parameters of acceptable speech, elicited a genuine smile.
Ultra-based animation from Japanese nationalists examines replacement migration agenda pic.twitter.com/Xr65udghUj
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) March 16, 2026
Has the tiger awakened?
