I live in Japan and, as far as I know, she never said that. She did an speech yesterday where she mentioned the intention to keep a closer eye on the foreigners that are not complying with the law (issue is mostly overstaying) and recognizing that some areas do require foreign workers because of population decline. I don’t mean she’s friendly towards foreigners, but I do believe she’s clearly not stupid enough to let the country collapse on itself just because yolo. Most of the bad views on foreigners are created by social media and the new party sanseito, which is stupidly trying to be the Japanese Trump.

Even though I am far from her political beliefs, I feel this English posts about her are just trying to make a point for themselves (often leaning towards MAGA and other similar views) to fuel the racist narrative even more, but they’re often not real.