Sports
Honda for Korea, and a Slant-Eye Clapback
Korean media reported a groundswell of enthusiasm for Keisuke Honda taking over the South Korean national team, and Japanese readers treated it as entertainment with one standing objection: the coaching licence. On the same day, an image of children making slant-eye poses spread on X, and the Korean-language replies to it spread further still. A light sports story and a heavy one about racism ran side by side.