Netto-uyoku

Netto-uyoku (ネット右翼, Internet right-wing) are a subculture of young Internet far-right nationalists in Japan. It has been around since the early 2000, and are similar to the American alt-right which appeared in the 2010s. Traditional or major conservative Japanese right-wingers do not recognize them as right-wingers and mostly think of them as loser trolls. The netto-uyoku is common in Japan's most popular Internet community sites, including Yahoo Japan. Their main habitat is ''.

Netto-uyoku has used hate speech against Koreans. They actively support the Zaitokukai movement, a strongly anti-Korean organization often called the Japanese equivalent of the Neo-Nazi movement.

They tend to be misogynistic, cry out about reverse discrimination against men, and preach Japanese chauvinism in place of the white supremacy of western Neo-Nazis. So they hate all foreigners including white people, and they even call for their slaughter. Their main object of their hatred are Koreans, Chinese, and They're largely made up of a new generation of young people who have not had the experience of World War II, and they're part of the Japanese version of the incel movement called herbivore men.

Being netizens who maintain ultra-right points of view, the netto-uyoku also target against the domestic left-centrist parties of Japan, particularly the Democratic Party of Japan and the liberal mass media.

The Netto-uyoku abhor liberals and support America's 'alt-right', but not at all on the issue of World War II. They believe that Japan is a victim of World War II because the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Pacific War. At the same time, they tend to defend or sympathize with Japan's war criminals during World War II, and deny Japanese war crimes. In contrast, the U.S. 'alt-right' are far-right white nationalists who would support Japanese American internment, even if they are weeaboos faun over Japan's supposed "purity".

Just as the alt-right critically supports the U.S. Republican Party, netto-uyoku actively supports the LDP and Shinzo Abe. But while the Abe creed has a critical view of Netto-Uyoku, it belongs to another relatively moderate far-right group.

The netto-uyoku were the originators of the popular online alt-right chan boards. 4chan is based on Futaba Channel, and it was inspired by 2ch, the home of the netto-uyoku which originated in 1999, while 4chan began in 2003.