second big street protest against Fuji TV

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On August 21st, a few thousand people participated in the second big street protest against Fuji TV, marching around the network’s Odaiba headquarters with placards denouncing the network’s alleged anti-Japanese bias.

This protest was definitely larger than the August 7th event. It also attracted uyoku sound trucks, which had not been present in the first protest:

As you can see from the video clip, the uyoku are annoying everyone, including the protesters. As the right-wingers drive by, protesters shout out, demanding that they go away. The participants in the street protest clearly do not want to be associated with uyoku.

Several YouTube videos of the street protest direct international viewers to an English language explanation of the event. One section emphasizes the fact that most protesters did not approve of the uyoku audio spammers, and even suggests that they could actually be Koreans:

The truth about so-called “ultra right-wing”
There were three groups at the site of demonstration: non-political public demonstrators, conservative political demonstrators, and the “ultra right-wingers.” There are real differences among these groups.
First is the group of ordinary people who gathered to protest. They were by far the majority on that day. Many of these people never protested before. Second is the conservative group who shares conservative political views. Their argument is more comprehensive than non-political demonstrators, ranging from protest against Korean occupation of Japanese island Takeshima to claim for increased defense spending. The difference of non-political group and politically motivated group forced the two groups to hold separate demonstrations on that day, which both turned out to be successful.
Third is the so-called “ultra right-wing.” They appeared toward the end of demonstrations, driving in with a few cars with loud speakers. These “ultra right-wingers” typically uses black painted buses and vans equipped with loud speakers, playing Japanese national anthem, praising the Emperor, and giving hate speech. The truth of these organizations is now revealed that at least 30% of these right wingers are actually Koreans or of Korean descend. If fact, these right-wingers are usually very pro-Korea.
The behavior of these “ultra right-wingers” is malicious and is threatening to the general public. The goal of their behavior is to plant bad image of conservatism and to tarnish the image of national anthem and Japanese flag. This is one of the major reasons why Japanese today feel guilty about singing national anthem or showing Japanese flag. Some demonstrators even suspected that Fuji hired these “ultra right-wingers” to disrupt the demonstration and tarnish the image of demonstrators.

The idea of “fake uyoku” is not exactly new, and may have some truth to it. However, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that Zainichi Koreans were driving the uyoku sound trucks that appeared near Fuji TV on August 21st.

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