If this was just one or two idiots doing this, I might have passed it off as just idiots. But we're now at our 6th or 7th time that my pattern recognition is kicking in...
Another streamer this time YouTube getting in trouble with Japanese authorities for essentially promoting fare dodging on trains and then issuing a weak ass apology after.
This is happening WAY TOO often with streamers of all people where they are live broadcasting their harassment and even crimes. There is definitely encouragement to do this in Japan but I can't work out if its just idiots going 'I can get attention by being a prick in Japan' or if there's someone higher up directing these idiots there as a way to attack Japanese social cohesion.
Oh, and the biggest idiot of them all, update on him he's getting FUCKED by the authorities there, they are holding him for the maximum detention time then applying new charges to hold him longer. He's getting deported but HE has to pay for his own deportation otherwise he is held at the detention centre till he gets the funds and may be sent to a prison work camp to pay off the debt he owes in compensation for his harassment.
Just so everyone knows how entrenched in their position japanese can be.
There were 2 imperial japanese soldiers: Second lieutenant Hiroo Onoda and Private Teruo Nakamura who both refused to accept Japan's defeat in World War II all the way until 1970s, 30 years after the war has ended.
If there are rag tag groups of anime and manga connoisseurs who have same level of stubbornness then I expect all our favourite franchises to simply resurface decades in the future even if they are wiped out right here and now