‘Racist messages have been scribbled on Kurd-related businesses, while social media users take secret photos of foreign residents they then post online, wrongly accusing them of shoplifting.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/kurdish-migrants-japan-kurds-immigration
‘My kids are too scared to go outside’: Kurdish migrants face hostility as Japan wrestles with demographic crisis

Antagonism toward migrant communities visible in the UK, Europe and the US appears to be spreading to Japan

The Guardian