Steven Guy comments

No K-Pop? Good! That stuff is terrible.

However, BAND-MAID, Atarashii Gakko, Chai, AiNA THE END, Zombie-Chang, Chanmina, and other great Japanese acts deserve some recognition more broadly.

Cigarettes are far too cheap in Japan. In Australia a packet of cigarettes will cost around $50 or more. The rates of smoking in adults is down to around 11%. Advertising and displaying tobacco products is banned in Australia. Japan needs to tackle this problem far more vigorously.

There are lots of movies I don't bother seeing and Barbie is one of them.

I am going to say it. BTS makes the dreariest music imaginable.

I've tried to appreciate K-Pop and BTS and this music still leaves me cold and I love lots of Pop music.

10 years and I've still never bothered to listen to any of BTS's music. My apathy is that complete.

Viva J-Pop!

If Japanese music was more heavily promoted outside of Japan, the bogus K-Pop industry would wither and die.

BTS is basically dross. Japanese music is vastly superior in quality and class than K-Pop, which is basically over-hyped pap.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Now let's get behind some Japanese talent!

If the Japanese start to boycott K-Pop, the South Korean music industry is sunk. South Korea needs to grow up and cease this hatred of Japan and the Japanese.

People have long ceased giving Germany a hard time about WWII and it's about time China and South Korea ceased their bigotry against Japan about a war that ended 74 years ago.

Maybe this Chinese director - "Ban Zhongyi, a Chinese-born director living in Hiroshima" - should be grateful for living in a free, democratic country that allows freedom of speech and complete access to the internet? Maybe he should turn his attention to the Tiananmen Square Massacre?

For heaven's sake, let it go. This war ended 73 years ago. What if the Japanese built a monument to the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989?

What if the Japanese set up a monument to many women who have recently been raped by American soldiers on Okinawa?

Many of the so-called "comfort women" did it voluntarily and were under the protection of Japanese Imperial Army and knew that they would fare better than civilians during the war. And what of the brutality of China under Mao in the last seventy years after the war?

Endeavouring to humiliate the contemporary Japanese by event that happened many decades before they were born is not honourable or productive. If the suffering of these women (many of them volunteers) needed to be celebrated in a monument, why wasn't it done twenty years ago.... or forty years ago ..... or sixty years ago?

The erection of such a monument at this time in the twenty first century is a spiteful and counterproductive act and likely to cause animosity on all sides and destabilise the region.

South Korea has a chip on its shoulder about Japan. If you keep picking at a scab, it won't heal.

For heaven's sake, let it go. This war ended 73 years ago. What if the Japanese built a monument to the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989?

What if the Japanese set up a monument to many women who have recently been raped by American soldiers on Okinawa?

Many of the so-called "comfort women" did it voluntarily and were under the protection of Japanese Imperial Army and knew that they would fare better than civilians during the war. And what of the brutality of China under Mao in the last seventy years after the war?

Endeavouring to humiliate the contemporary Japanese by event that happened many decades before they were born is not honourable or productive. If the suffering of these women (many of them volunteers) needed to be celebrated in a monument, why wasn't it done twenty years ago.... or forty years ago ..... or sixty years ago?

The erection of such a monument at this time in the twenty first century is a spiteful and counterproductive act and likely to cause animosity on all sides and destabilise the region.

Let go of it.