Historically Japanese used to call foreigners 外人 (gaijin) which means foreign person.( or if you wanted to be more specific it technically means "outside person" 外 means "outside" and 人 means "person" though 外人 mostly gets translated as "foreigner" by google translate)
And then over time 外人 was considered to be "rude" and "politically incorrect" because 外人 refers to anyone that was not of Japanese ethnicity even if they had Japanese citizenship, so they started saying 外国人 (Gaikoku jin) which means "foreign country person" (or outside country person though again google translate translates it as "foreigner") which is the term used by the Japanese government and media. There's still people who say 外人 but the mainstream term is now 外国人.
And now there are those that even take it one step further to start saying 海外の人 which means overseas person.
So who exactly was responsible for the political correctness being pushed over there?
This is similar to the bastardization of language in the West. its like how "illegal alien" started becoming "illegal immigrant" and then it became "undocumented immigrant" or even why the West doesn't even describe foreigners in their countries as foreigners anymore, or how "transvestite" became "transgender". Political correctness became so bad that even conservatives stopped using "illegal alien" and started using "illegal immigrant" similar to how even in Japan conservatives started saying 外国人 instead of 外人 even though they are clearly still using the term anytime they see anyone that doesn't look of Japanese ethnicity.
So last week i said it was Kadokawa that was taking down the videos of the anti woke dragon quest interview because someone told me they own the rights to the interview so i assumed that meant that they were the ones who were taking it down. But actually this was wrong, it actually was still Square Enix that were trying to take down the interview even though they don't own the rights to the interview. My mistake
You know Kadokawa. The one who's new president is part of the WEF and who said they wanted to censor anime/manga for google and Apple.
Japanese otaku protested against this of course and he apologized but its clear that the apology was insincere and he plans on going forward with the censorship in order to please their ESG , WEF, google and Apple masters.
i can't think of any within the last 50 years. Even in the 1990's and 1980's female characters in Western media were pretty much all girl bosses.
