Anti-Korean Books Sell Nearly 500,000 Copies In Japan And Become The Country’s Top-seller

Kent Gilbert, a US lawyer active in Japan as a “foreign celebrity”, wrote an anti-Korea and China book titled, “Tragedy of Chinese and Koreans Overtaken by Confucianism” which has already sold over 470K copies and quickly became Japan’s bestseller in 2017. The book continues to trend in Japan.

The book, as the title hints, is filled with heavy criticism of China and Korea, while having only high praise for Japan and its “high moral model” when compared to China and Korea.

A Japanese publication, the Asahi Shimbun, reported that this anti-China/Korea book criticizes the Korean and Chinese people for having “social mores less than that of beasts and birds”.