Discrimination in Japan

[Lina Inverse]

So these "uyoku" are just some type of Yakuza or something? Care to explain?

[Maciamo]

So these "uyoku" are just some type of Yakuza or something? Care to explain?

"Uyoku" literally means "right-winger", but refers to the ultra-nationalist minority who often ride these black vans blaring music and nationalist slogans in loud-speakers around town. I have seen them pass only about 5 times in 3 years in Tokyo.

Rather than calling them yakuza, I'd compare them to some kind of neo-nazi, except that they mainly limit themselves to making a lot of noise in front of the Russian embassy to reclaim the few (small, uninhabited and harsh) Kuril islands north of Hokkaido.