Why This Topic Landed in Japan

Nakata Atsuhiko — one half of the comedy duo Oriental Radio and a well-known online-salon and YouTube entrepreneur — spent years positioning himself as a critic of Japan before moving his family to Singapore around 2021. So the news that he and his wife, TV personality Moe Fukuda, had quietly returned to Japan after about five years hit a nerve. Fukuda announced the move on Instagram, framing it warmly ("now I feel my life has both Japan and Singapore as options"), and adding that it was her husband who first said he wanted to come home. For netizens who remembered his "Japan is finished" rhetoric, the return read as a reversal too tempting not to mock, and the thread quickly split between "don't come back" hostility and cold, tax-and-money speculation about the real reason.

Key Reaction Themes

  • "Don't come back" rejection — The dominant note was hostility toward someone seen as having badmouthed Japan and then returned: "you kicked sand on the way out, don't come back."
  • Cold speculation on the real reason — Many assumed money, not family, drove the decision — Singapore's cost of living, tax timing, or a shrinking income.
  • "They always come back" cynicism — Commenters drew parallels to other celebrities who trashed Japan, then returned when it suited them, casting the move as a predictable pattern.

What Japanese Netizens Are Saying

Nakata's return five years after emigrating while bashing Japan

Reactions to the report that Nakata, who moved abroad after repeatedly saying "Japan is no good," has come back five years later.

Sources: Yahoo! news

Comments:

  • "From Singapore's point of view he was probably a nuisance migrant himself."
  • "If neither Singapore nor Japan works out he could just go to America — he has plenty of options, so why come back to Japan?"
  • "Kyosen Ohashi trashed Japan endlessly too and held permanent residency in Australia and Canada, but the moment he got sick he came straight back, got shuffled between hospitals, and died in one in Chiba, lol."
  • "Good for him — another 'tale of valor' to add to the pile." [a jab at Oriental Radio's signature "Bui-den" (tale of valor) gag]
  • "This type has always pulled the same move — never paid taxes or pension, then ends up leeching off Japan's social security in the end."
  • "He dragged his whole family into emigrating, so what is even his deal?"
  • "Serves him right, lol."
  • "Thanks for your hard work running the follower-business." [dig at his paid online salon]

Speculation over why Nakata came back from Singapore

Reactions to the story treating money and taxes, rather than family, as the likely real reason for the return.

Sources: ORICON NEWS

Comments:

  • "If he hates Japan so much he should just stay in Singapore. Don't come over here."
  • "He kicked sand in our faces on the way out, so don't come back."
  • "Don't come back, you trash."
  • "Kicking sand at Japan and then coming back is peak lame."
  • "He simply ran out of money, that's all."
  • "When your income drops you still get taxed on last year's earnings, so it gets rough."
  • "To live decently over there as a family of several would cost tens of millions of yen…"
  • "They're being criticized for their past words and actions — what is with the idiots defending them by missing the point?"