Society
Foreign Workers, a Convenience-Store Brawl, and Japan's Multicultural Fatigue
Several unrelated April incidents — convenience stores being staffed mostly by foreign workers, a viral brawl between Lawson clerks in Kabukicho, four Vietnamese suspects unindicted in a Chiba confinement case, and backlash to support efforts for Indian residents in Hokkaido — were bundled by Japanese reaction sites into a single 'multicultural friction' frame. Individual incidents are real, but the generalization is heavily editorial.