Netto-uyoku

Netto-uyoku or Net uyoku (ネット右翼, Japanese Internet rightists), often shortened as Netouyo (ネトウヨ), is the term used to refer to Japanese neo-nationalists who interact almost entirely within their own cyber community, shut off from the rest of Japanese society. Netto-uyoku frequently post nationalistic and Japan-supremacist articles on the Internet.[1][2]

Origins

Netto-uyoku first appeared on the Internet during the Lost Decade, which was an economic crisis in Japan from the 1990s to 2010s.[3]

Characteristics

Netto-uyoku generally express support for historically revisionist views, portraying Imperial Japan in a positive light, juxtaposed with a negative portrayal of China (anti-Chinese sentiment), North and South Korea (Anti-Korean sentiment) and Russia (Anti-Russian sentiment), who oppose to Japan's actions prior to and during World War II. Netto-uyoku tend to express hostility towards immigrants from other countries, particularly Zainichi Koreans, and encourage visits by conservative politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine. The netto-uyoku also express heavy criticism against the domestic left and centrist parties, such as the Democratic Party of Japan, and the liberal mass media. [4]

Furuya Tsunehira, who writes about the netto-uyoku, makes the observation that although active on the web, they lack institutional political representation offline, leading to a sense of frustration and a tendency to be more active online and to back the more right-wing elements of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, especially the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration as a substitute for having a party of their own.[5]

gollark: This statement is false. /s
gollark: /s /s
gollark: Try triaxilating the MP3 array.
gollark: I just remotely administer my stuff by SSHing occasionally.
gollark: Don't forget to navigate the redundant DHCP microchip.

See also

References
  1. "Xenophobia finds fertile soil in web anonymity".
  2. "The Roots and Realities of Japan's Cyber-Nationalism".
  3. "Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture".
  4. "Internet Aggregators Constructing the Political Right Wing in Japan".
  5. "The Roots and Realities of Japan's Cyber-Nationalism".
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