Not long ago, I happened to observe an ugly clash between a group of Japanese leftists and anti-Korean rightists in downtown Sapporo, Japan, each group chanting its own slogan.  The leftist one was "No more hate speech!"  Regrettably, some anti-Korean feeling still exists in Japan.  Nevertheless, the booming popularity of Korean singing groups and dramas in Japan has done wonders to elevate the image of Koreans in recent years.  Less effective have been the sermons of leftists, who have manifested plenty of bigotry of their own. Nowadays, many imagine that humanity is divided into two tribes: the party of love and the party of hate.  People proposing this theory tend to flatter themselves that they belong to the love tribe.  On top of that, they often believe they can abolish the other tribe's existence by passing edicts against it. This summer, Japan joined ranks of the EU and other nations by passing its own hate speech law. ...(Read Full Article)