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The story
Italy has announced plans to ban burqas on school grounds and require the parents of foreign students who fail to integrate to take Italian language lessons. The news sparked a wave of “Japan should follow suit” comments on 5ch, though others pointed out that the premise doesn’t quite carry over — in Japan, niqabs and burqas already get you turned away at convenience store entrances, unlike in Italy. Rather than settling into simple pros and cons, the thread drifted into a broader argument about Japan’s own approach to immigration and assimilation.
Italy to ban burqas in schools; parents of foreign children who fail to integrate required to learn Italian: AFPBB News
September 22, 2026, 11:22
Datelined: Rome, Italy [ Italy / Europe ]
Source: afpbb.com / Original article here
What people said
Re: #8
Not gonna happen under an LDP government — "multicultural coexistence" is basically written into their party platform
Why did that thing ever become popular in the first place?
Even if it was an accident, that was way too sexy
Japan should follow suit too
It's just conflict-avoidance culture. They mouth platitudes because they're scared of being criticized. Even politicians can't do better than call-center-level responses these days. The Japanese government is honestly garbage. In the West, when they get criticized, they actually push back.
Glad it wasn't just me
Honestly, hijabs on young Asian girls can look pretty cute
Oh, I mixed that up with a hijab — the one on the far right definitely isn't something you'd see in Japan
Niqabs and burqas already get you barred from entering convenience stores in Japan
Background and Key Points
The key thing here is that Italy’s new measure isn’t a nationwide burqa ban — it’s limited to schools, paired with a system requiring parents to take Italian lessons if their children fail to integrate. That’s a narrower scope than France’s public-space bans. Japan has no comparable law, but as commenters in the thread pointed out, stores already turn away customers wearing niqabs or burqas for security reasons, so Italy’s measure doesn’t map onto Japan quite as directly as some assumed. The thread ended up less about Italy’s policy itself and more a proxy fight over the ruling party’s immigration stance and its “multicultural coexistence” line.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “Italy to ban burqas in schools; parents of foreign children who fail to integrate required to learn Italian.”
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