Japan is strongly opposed to the Supreme Court of South Korea ruling on forced labor Victims, and K-pop groups such as BTS are being banned from Japan activities. Japan's local sports entertainment magazine Sponi Anex reported on the 11th that BTS's appearances at the end of the year, including NHK 'NHK Hall', Fuji TV 'FNS Song Festival' and TV Asahi 'Music Station Super Live', all of which were canceled on TV Asahi.
Anaerobic groups have announced the Anaerobic demonstration in front of the venue where BTS is scheduled to appear. Far-right groups are expected to aggressively create an Anaerobic atmosphere, raising concerns that there will be a negative impact on private exchanges as well as K-pop singers' activities in the future. Some extreme right-wing forces marched with a sun flag and a turbulent diary at Tokyo Station and Ginza in central Tokyo on October 10, and shouted slogans such as "Stop with Korea".
TWICE is also becoming unclear about NHK 'NHK Hall' appearance. Recently, Japan Media Osaka Sports published an article titled 'TWICE and BTS are also excluded from NHK Hall Korean Wave'. TWICE appeared on the program last year as a Korean singer in six years, but there is a negative observation in Japan for the second consecutive year.
The cancellation of BTS broadcasts seems to be led by the far-right forces that have led Anaerobic in Japan.
The controversy began last year in a video of one of the BTS members wearing a T-shirt with a picture of an atomic bomb. It spread around the right-wing social networking service last year, but what did not get attention began to spread widely in mid-October. In early October, the issue of the diary was raised at the Jeju International Correction, and the forcible Labor ruling began to be covered as a major news in Japan.
Around this time, there was a growing demand for opposition to BTS broadcasts, mainly right-wing people. Takasu Gasya, a doctor who does not hesitate to make usual remarks, has also tweeted that he should ask the Korean government to apologize for his unforgivable and neglected remarks. In addition, some Internet media even spread to the unconfirmed news that the T-shirt was worn at an event held in Paris, France in October.
Meanwhile, the Japanese government has decided to unify the expression of forced labor Victims as "workers from the former Korean Peninsula," NHK reported on the 11th. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a parliamentary response that four people who were sentenced to the Supreme Court of South Korea last month should use the expression "worker" because they responded to the recruitment.
Member Jimin 'Atomic Bomb' Picture TWICE also shows signs of resuming 'Anaerobic' centered on opaque right-wing at the end of the year