ABSTRACT Over ten years before the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Japan was reckoning with its own wave of Internet-fueled xenophobic activism in public spaces. Amid a second decade of recession in the early 2000s, nationalist activity coalesced in anonymous chat rooms and message boards in Japan. In contrast to the surprisingly inclusive space that prior rightist generations had inherited from imperial pan-Asian ideology and post-World War II experiences of shared social marginality, a new activist movement that came to be known as the Action Conservative Movement (ACM) pursued an aggressively xenophobic, racially framed form of nationalism, based not on the social margins but rhetorically grounded in the center of Japan’s middle-class society. This article identifies the centrality of self-made digital media and three genres of video work facilitating ACM mobilization of supporters from the virtual to the physical public sphere and explores issues around anonymity and truth telling such video work entails.

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Vigilante Video：日本新网民中的数字民粹主义和焦虑的匿名

摘要 在 2017 年在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔举行的致命“团结右翼”集会前十多年，日本正在考虑在公共场所掀起由互联网推动的仇外活动浪潮。在 2000 年代初的第二个十年经济衰退中，日本的匿名聊天室和留言板中出现了民族主义活动。与前右翼世代从帝国泛亚意识形态和二战后共享社会边缘经验中继承的令人惊讶的包容性空间相反，一个新的激进运动，后来被称为行动保守运动 (ACM)激进的仇外、种族框架的民族主义形式，不是基于社会边缘，而是基于日本中产阶级社会的中心。