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Chinese people are useless at private commercial companies because their performance is poor. We wouldn't invite applicants for job interviews in the first place if it turned out they were Chinese. We'd reject them at the stage of document screening.

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Shohei Ohsawa, project associate professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, writing on his Twitter account on Nov 20. He has come under fire for the tweets that critics point out constitute discrimination against Chinese nationals.

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He's not afraid of being ridicule.

8 ( +9 / -1 )

I wonder why they quote this guy as though he is important. A young guy couple years out of college, barely any business experience, and his start-up company (located in a small apartment in a dumpy residential area) has no employees as far as I can see. Perhaps he did this just for the attention.

9 ( +10 / -1 )

That is the most idiotic statement I've read the whole week. Talk about generalising your stupidity of an entire country with a population 20 times that if Japan.

8 ( +9 / -1 )

Well, if you're going to be racist/bigoted... you might as well be up front about it.

8 ( +9 / -1 )

From what I experienced, Chinese people are hard working, wonderful at math, tend to do a great job at what ever they do in most cases, and are very intelligent. So, I am not sure what world Shohei Ohsawa san is living in. Not one of reality.

7 ( +9 / -2 )

Agree with Michael Machida. My experience with the few Chinese students I've had has been positive. In class they did not chat, sleep or text, unlike a lot of Japanese students.

Yes, that guy is a bigot. He is far from alone.

7 ( +8 / -1 )

This is exactly why China is the number two economy in the world and Japan is third.

7 ( +9 / -2 )

The guy is an idiot and should be canned.

See, unlike the usual crowd on here, I am fair and balanced when it comes to all things Japan. If I see something wrong, I'll call it out.

1 ( +3 / -2 )

Some people are so stupid they actually broadcast their stupidity.

7 ( +7 / -0 )

jeancolmarToday 09:19 am JSTAgree with Michael Machida. My experience with the few Chinese students I've had has been positive. In class they did not chat, sleep or text, unlike a lot of Japanese students.

Yes, that guy is a bigot. He is far from alone.

In college the Chinese students were some of the hardest working. Anyway, you can't categorize or discriminate against a nation like that. That's pure bigotry and it's stupid.

Now we know what a cretin this bigot really is, in living color because he opened up his ignorant yap.

4 ( +4 / -0 )

This guy is associate with the University of Tokyo. As a UT grad, I can tell you that this is not a typical attitude, and that there are many Chinese students there. This guy is obviously too stupid to be associated with UT. Get rid of him!

5 ( +5 / -0 )

There are many people who feel and act just like him. His loss, but even so, the Chinese don't need him and they probably would hate working there anyway.

2 ( +2 / -0 )

He probably experienced working with a couple of lazy chinese then judged the whole people based on this. Such narrow mindedness shown by a supposedly "highly" educated person.

1 ( +2 / -1 )

If "Chinese people are useless at private commercial companies because their performance is poor", why do we have Chinese companies like Huawei running past the US and Japan in high tech like 5G? The Chinese people are very useful and their performance is great. Lots of other Chinese companies are like that. Why do you think Trump banned Huawei from doing business in the US? Because Huawei was about to run over most US electronics firms who are a decade behind.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

Dinto a business deal with a firm in China, the poor girl made a small error and all hell broke loose in our office with the older buchyou class and above. Instantly, it was because ALL Chinese were stupid.

Bring a foreigner, this was great for my moral.

Long story short... we need the older ones quite and gone so the younger can adapt or die.

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That is just dumb. In shenzhen, my impression of the chinese youth was that they were solidly mature and entrepeneurial..

The guy is just a japanese nationalist trying to ignore the fact the chinese entrepeneurs backed by softbank like Jack ma of Alibaba and Dji Drones Frank Wang are wildly more successful than him.

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Well, at the very least, he's honest. His experience does not match mine (and I see many others'), but that's a dispute of fact. Maybe that's really how his experience with Chinese went, sufficiently that he is willing to pass up the chance of some golden apples in the box to save himself some time.

There will only be two types of Chinese people, in any case. Those that prove him right and those that prove him wrong. The former will likely be able to find alternative employment and the latter ... well, there's only so much one can say if the shoe fits.

It's at least more honest than "playing by the rules", inviting them in for interviews and then just not hiring them.

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