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NEWS: Official Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournaments in Japan Updated to Ban Non-Japanese Nationals

BadNewsBlues wrote:

Touma55 wrote: Yes it has become a big problem. It is strange to see that after acceptance of foreigners has increased over the years foreigners have decided to abuse that acceptance to cause trouble. It is sad but I am already starting to see some people view foreigners poorly again. You do know that a portion of the pushback to foreigners is not exclusively because of a fraction of them acting and behaving inappropriately right? Japan if you look at its history has a very well documented history of xenophobia and just plain racism with how it’s viewed and treated non Japanese people. Granted they’ve come long and far from the days of “expel the western invaders” but still.

I said that acceptance has increased which implies that it was low or atleast lower so of course I know some people are racist. I think you knew that I knew and just wanted to take this chance to be racist to us Japanese. And if you think recent bad behavior has not caused an increase in pushback you are very very wrong. Also many countries have had problems with xenophobia in the past, but people really like talking about Japan I have noticed.

Not really, people switch teams constantly and move all over the world to play for a different countries national team. Look at Japan's national Rugby team as an example; they have 2 South Africans, a New Zealander and a Thai player in the team.

Glordit wrote:

Not really, people switch teams constantly and move all over the world to play for a different countries national team. Look at Japan's national Rugby team as an example; they have 2 South Africans, a New Zealander and a Thai player in the team.

But didn't Naomi Osaka have to give up her US Citizenship in order to representing Japan in the Olympics? I imagine it's something like that. They want a Japanese citizen to represent Japan in the world championship. Are those Rugby players mixed/born in Japan and Japanese citizens or are they only there on Visas?

Guessing the recent slew on tourism trouble and idiots wanting to be the next Johnny Somali are some if the reasons?

Glordit wrote:

Not really, people switch teams constantly and move all over the world to play for a different countries national team. Look at Japan's national Rugby team as an example; they have 2 South Africans, a New Zealander and a Thai player in the team.

But didn't Naomi Osaka have to give up her US Citizenship in order to representing Japan in the Olympics?

I said that acceptance has increased which implies that it was low or atleast lower so of course I know some people are racist. I think you knew that I knew and just wanted to take this chance to be racist to us Japanese.

And if you think recent bad behavior has not caused an increase in pushback you are very very wrong. Also many countries have had problems with xenophobia in the past, but people really like talking about Japan I have noticed.

The question that hasn't been asked or answered is "Are people from certain countries now outright banned from playing competitive Yugioh at all?"

I'm not even a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan, but this type of gatekeeping and exclusion is basically a "F" you to international fanbases. By doing that, Konami can end up losing a sizeable western fanbase and also non-Japanese Asian fanbase by putting that exclusionary rule for the tournament.

You just know if it was TCG regions banning Foreign nationals, it would be called racist and probably reach main stream news.

I'm not sure how many foreigners were entering the Japanese regionals in the first place and how many people this is actually going to affect if anyone at all

To be fair I would classify this as one of the least annoying things international Yu-Gi-Oh fans have had to deal with throughout our existence since this would only affect a handful of people at most.

I would love to know what Kazuki Takahashi would have thought of this due to inclusivity being a core message of his manga.

"Yes, it has become a big problem," they say, citing the politicians. This is the problem with fascist societies like Japan, you're so quick to believe that the "foreigners" are being bad. How dare they sour the sliver of "acceptance" you benevolent Japanese have kindly bestowed upon them.

Those don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. I don't like speaking for other people, let alone the dead, but this is the same Takahashi who did not portray foreigners in the most positive light in his series (Bandit Keith, Pegasus J Crawford, Step Johnny, Pandora, etc)