I think it's wrong of course but wouldn't a japanese person support japan?
a tweet condemning his comment gone viral and many japanese agreed it's wrong to say that. if this opinion was normal, shochiku (the distributor) didn't copystriked the tweet with his quotes (screenshots) and took down the original video from youtube
nekocap.com/view/q6jQgBIZF4
https://tver.jp/episodes/epbkee54w8?nekocap=q6jQgBIZF4
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