Netto-uyoku

Netto-uyoku or net uyoku (ネット右翼, lit.'Internet rightists'), often shortened to neto-uyo (ネトウヨ), is the term used to refer to Japanese netizens who espouse ultranationalist far-right views on social media. Netto-uyoku is evaluated as sharing similarities to Western right-wing populism or the alt-right.[1][2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Fujioka, Brett (August 7, 2019). "Japan's Cynical Romantics, Precursors to the Alt-Right". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Shinji Higaki; Yuji Nasu, eds. (2021). Hate Speech in Japan: The Possibility of a Non-Regulatory Approach. Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ Patrik Hermansson; David Lawrence; Joe Mulhall, eds. (2020). The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?. Routledge. ISBN 9780429627095. ... Specifically, to a Japanese nationalist movement that predates the Alternative Right and has numerous striking parallels; the Netto Uyoku ("the online right"). Both the Alternative Right in the US and Europe and the Netto Uyoku emerged ...
  4. ^ John Lie, ed. (2021). Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits. Univ of California Press. p. 98.
  5. ^ Cecilia Menjívar, Immanuel Ness, ed. (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises. Oxford University Press. p. 203.