An article on anti-foreigner protests in Japan that have shocked the public reminded me of when it was pointed out to me that while the US had student protests in the late 60s, so did everyone else, including China’s Cultural Revolution. So while the US is having an odd populist uprising showing resentment of perceived outsiders, so is Japan. I am glad that I’m not the only one who is shocked by protesting an elementary school (or the use of the adjacent park, depending who you ask), but I was surprised by the descriptions of the far-right’s vans tooling around town being a regular sight. I guess the US has Neo-Nazis, but they can’t usually get it together to buy a van. I bet another similarity can be seen in the photo of one of the group leaders in a bow tie. Perhaps bow ties are not as cool as the Doctor thinks.