Japanese culture that excludes outsiders Another Japanese topic Twitter Facebook はてブ Pocket LINE コピー 2021.12.21 2021.05.09 This time I wrote a story about what happened in the era of “Reiwa”, the next era of “Heisei” in Japan. The Japanese treat people who have or are suspected of being infected with corona sternly. I think it has something to do with Japanese culture that I wrote about. <Concept> Japan is a village society. It is a country that is tough on the “weak”. With the spread of corona infection, a large group of certain Japanese people have eliminated a small number of “outsiders”. I depicted the situation as a story that “human beings turn into beasts”. “Hikikomori” were scorned and oppressed by the society as “they do not live a human life”, but when the whole country is locked down, the action appears correct. Am I the only one who feels strange in such an inconsistent society? The “strong” and “weak” are two sides of the same coin. Even those who ...