A 10-year-old boy was just murdered in Shenzhen outside a Japanese school.
For the past year now, Douyin videos demonizing Japanese schools have gone viral. Anti-Japanese nationalism is allowed to flourish in China's tightly censored environment. Check out the video below:
"Japanese schools" in China have long been a target of nationalist ire. The school bus stabbings that injured two Japanese nationals follow viral skits that depict Japanese schools as using racist slurs against local Chinese and celebrate violent action taken in response: