ATTENTION: Officer in charge of Edition of IBTimes
Dear Sir/Madame,
In regard with the recent xenophobic slurs toward Kim Yu-na, a female gold medalist of figure skating in Vancouver Olympic, sent from some Japanese to you, I would like to state the reason and the background.
As you may already know, Kim Yu-na won the gold medal with highest score and she completed outdistanced Mao Asada of 2nd place by a large margin. It is regret to say that some Japanese furies and never accepted the result, and they started the slur attack toward the gold medalist. They insisted that Yu-na won the prize by venal votes and unfair judgment, moreover, Mao Asada deserved to win due to her "triple axel" which shown in the competition. It is needless to say that they are not professional figure skater nor committed judgment member of figure skating. However, as soon as the competition closed in February 26th, the frames of abhorrence toward Yu-na have been spread among the bulletin board "2 channel". They started the negative campaign and shouted "Yuna's insurance benefit paid by Loyd's syndicate derived from infair judgment, and her brand's earrings violated Olympic regulations".
Obviously, there is a deep racial discrimination and inferiority complex to Korea, since their historical background and the another large margin between Japan and Korea on their medal account in Olympic games (Japan obtained no gold, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes, Korea obtained 6 golds, 6 silvers, 2 bronzes). Japanese right-wing nationalists in the internet(called "NET-UYO") often posted tons of negative comments against to Chinese and Korean, and fanatic fan of Mao Asada(called "MAO-OTA") allied each other like a Neo-Nazis and Hooligans, and their offensive attack targeted to Yuna. They gathered into the 2 channel forum posted huge amount of threat and slander with dark passions, and it was off-line by Korean net users' attack on March 1st.
I wish that you would have an interest in the frenzy phenomenon in Japan and analyse from the view of psychological pathology or social psychology on the reason of existence of the right-wing nationalists in Japan. I worried their eccentric behavioiurs and never want you to feel all Japanese are having the bias ideology. We of course knew that Japan Imperial Armies killed and abused so many people in WWII, including British and Dutch in South-East Asia. We learnt from the tragedy history and pursued the constant peace, but some people are still deviated from the path of good conduct of human being.
I thanked you very much for reading my mail, and I hope you would share the understanding and recognition that those people are not full part of Japanese. Your tolerance on this issue would highly be appreciated.