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A city in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka said Tuesday a condo project envisioning mostly foreign occupants has been scrapped, after opponents of the plan staged a protest and campaigned against it online.
The condo developer had told Asakura locals in 2024 that it estimated about 40 percent of the occupants would be from China and another 40 percent those from Hong Kong and Taiwan. While opposition was muted initially, it caught fire on the internet through anti-immigration slogans starting around last fall.
According to the city, the company owning the prospective site of the housing complex told the developer on April 14 that it had decided to go "back to the drawing board" with the plan, and that the developer accepted it.
by SkyInJapan