Why This Topic Landed in Japan

Japan's self-image as a "safe country without guns" was shaken by the concrete figure of four loaded handguns, amplifying fear. Combined with frustration toward a government that expanded foreign intake and a deep distrust that suspects "will just get off without charges," individual cases expanded into a broader critique of immigration policy as a whole.

Key Reaction Themes

  • Fear of Japan becoming a "gun society" — Multiple loaded handguns triggered alarm that "Japan, too, at last."
  • Meme-ification and cynicism — The Iranian's "naan oven" smuggle drew wordplay alongside the dread.
  • Distrust of immigration policy and the courts — "It'll end in non-prosecution anyway," and blame on the administration that expanded foreign intake.

What Japanese Netizens Are Saying

Iranian's ¥2.1bn meth smuggle in a "naan oven"

A record-scale meth seizure; the unusual method drew both meme reactions and fear of an inflow.

Source: livedoor News

Comments:

  • "Don't go doing un-Iran-necessary things."
  • "They probably think they're funny saying stuff like 'Naan you say?'... pathetic."
  • "'Naan you say?' What naan."
  • "Are Chinese people mixed up in this too?"
  • "Nearly 100% of the crimes happening in Japan are committed by foreigners."
  • "He'll just get released again by saying he didn't know, right?"
  • "I told you not to do un-Iran-necessary things 😡"
  • "It's nothing but foreign crime because of the LDP; with worsening security the victims are always Japanese. Takaichi, take responsibility and resign, you trash hag."
  • "Iranians sell unusual cigarettes and such in Ueno Park, and a lot of them are pro-Japan, good people, you know."

Vietnamese man's four loaded handguns in Kanagawa

Arrested for meth, then re-arrested when four loaded handguns and 80+ rounds were found — fear of a "gun society" spread.

Sources: Yahoo! news, livedoor News

Comments:

  • "Non-prosecution incoming (ﾟ∀ﾟ 三 ﾟ∀ﾟ)"
  • "Eh, non-prosecution, then."
  • "Kanagawa police actually doing their job, lol."
  • "It's Kanagawa police, so there's a high chance it's fabricated."
  • "Vietnamese, or rather foreigners in general — better to send them all back once. See a foreigner, assume drugs, weapons, criminal."
  • "Real-life GTA."
  • "Imagining people like this rampaging during a major disaster and trying to rule by force is too scary."
  • "Japan's immigration control is so loose — welcome, international criminals."
  • "In Japan, foreigners are not guilty."

Foreigners' LUUP riding-manner problems

Footage of a LUUP scooter ridden through the Shinjuku Gyoen tunnel spread, drawing criticism of foreigners ignoring traffic rules.

Comments:

  • "They're foreigners. Thanks, PM Takaichi ✊"
  • "It looks like a vehicle for a chimpanzee doing acrobatics, doesn't it."
  • "No license, no helmet — that's normal in Kawaguchi."
  • "They don't have a license, so of course they wouldn't know 🙄 a-and thanks, Fumio."
  • "It's purely the rider's own fault, yet they're blaming LUUP again."
  • "Is routinely exceeding the speed limit fine, then?"
  • "It really is a vehicle for idiots."
  • "Only people who seem to have no brains left ride LUUP anymore."
  • "They don't know the law or the road signs, so no problem — it's the LDP, who legalized license-free riding, that's to blame."