A store that became a mess in the earthquake in Fukushima, Japan. yunhap news–“Chosun people (Koreans) poisoned the well in Fukushima”
On the 13th, a 7.3 earthquake took place off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, and a “bad testament” is spreading again among some Japanese netizens.
On the 15th, the Japanese media Mainichi Shimbun pointed out that “the same phenomenon is happening every time a disaster,” said, “Another discriminatory remarks, black propaganda, and uncertain information over the Fukushima earthquake that occurred on the 13th were abounding online.
The newspaper mentioned that the Koreans at the time were massacred with unfounded rumors in a similar situation to the spread of rumors such as’The Koreans poisoned the well’ and’The Koreans set fire’ immediately after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.
At that time, the number of victims of the massacre was not disclosed in detail because the truth was not properly investigated. However, in December 1923, the’Independent Newspaper’, the main magazine of the Shanghai Provisional Government, announced that there were 6661 victims.
The problem is that rumors related to Koreans in Japan spread with each disaster.
Earlier, even at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, when massive damage such as a nuclear power plant explosion occurred, groundless claims spread, saying, “Foreigner crimes are occurring.”
On April 14, 2016, when a strong earthquake of 6.5 struck Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture, the word “Koreans living in Kumamoto poisoned the well” spread on Japanese Twitter.
What is more serious is that there have been many Japanese people who believe in rumors. According to a study by Tohoku Gakuin University, about 80% of Sendai citizens in the disaster area at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake believed in rumors.
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After the earthquake, Japanese netizens lined up with comments saying they reported the rumor spread in Japan (left). Twitter capture-As the situation was like this, some Japanese people also came up with a move to prevent false rumors. A Japanese netizen wrote on his Twitter account, “I can’t forgive,” by capturing and sharing the account that spread the rumors right after the Fukushima earthquake.
Other Japanese netizens who encountered this responded, saying, “There are good and bad things to play with,” and “This is a sneaky human voice. You should not deal with it.”
The Twitter account has been deleted due to their reports and criticism comments, and other accounts that have posted false information are also deleting tweets.
Daisuke Tsuda, the artistic director of the Aichi Triennale, who exhibited the’Girl of Peace’ in 2019, posted on his Twitter with 1.5 million followers, saying, “Let’s report vicious discrimination. The content is increasing,” he criticized.
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