https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/459074

The situation in Japan has changed dramatically over the past year. The relaunch of the Trump administration in the United States has caused chaos with its tariff policy. Rice prices continue to soar, and farmers across the country have called for agricultural policy reform. The Liberal Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in the House of Councillors election. Takaichi Sanae became the first female prime minister, and a coalition government with the Japan Restoration Party was formed. Xenophobic sentiment is growing stronger, and bear attacks continue unabated. Here's what happened "after" the article reported by "This is the Special News Department"…

Mayoral election in February next year, fears of hate spreading again

　Hatred towards foreigners has become even worse since the July House of Councillors election, in which both the ruling and opposition parties, including the Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, competed to pledge stricter restrictions on foreigners. In August, a Kurdish fifth-grade boy who was with his father at a park in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, was subjected to verbal abuse from a Japanese man who told him, "If there were no laws, I'd kill you all." (Published on September 14th, etc.)

　"Discrimination against foreigners is not just limited to certain people, but is also widespread among ordinary citizens," said a woman from Warabi City, adjacent to Kawaguchi, expressing her shock.

　"If a mosque is built, the area will be filled with burial sites and Japanese people will no longer be able to live there," and "Foreigners on provisional release are living comfortably thanks to government subsidies." Such baseless statements have apparently begun to be made by local people who have known him for a long time.