Japanese rally against Fuji TV

Tokyo, japan -- An exhibition against Fuji TV's heavy rotation of Korean drama programming attracted an believed 6,000 to 10,000 protesters on Sunday. It was the 2nd demo at Fuji headquarters in Daiba, Tokyo, japan since a far more compact one on August. 7. The demo began at 1:30 p.m., with coordinators telling protesters in your thoughts their manners and avoid shows of xenophobia. Because the marchers contacted the Fuji TV HQ, these were became a member of by regular day-trippers, swelling their amounts. Also, people of the conservative group known as Funnel Sakura yelled "traitor network" along with other epithets and sang japan national anthem. The demo, however, ended without major incident. Both protests were touched off by thesp Sosuke Takaoka, whose tweets railing against Fuji's Korean programming got him fired from his agency in the finish of recently. Takaoka didn't play in the protests. The so-known as "Korean Wave" ("hanryu" in Japanese) of TV dramas, photos and music functions continues to be washing over Japanese popular culture for pretty much ten years, however the pace has lately acquired several notches. Fuji broadcasts Korean dramas from 2 to five p.m. Monday through Wednesday and from three to five p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com