[Barto]

Xenophobia on the rise? Maybe. More likely it's a bunch of racist twats who have decided to make some noise with the recent protests in China and South Korea, and will crawl back into their holes once the controversy again recedes.

The above books and quotes seem WAY outside the mainstream to me. It's no secret that much of Japan's culture was imported from China, and Chinese and Korean culture is still popular in Japan.