Furthermore the Huffington Post source article directly references social media posts in effort to prove a non existent point that there was public acknowledgement of anti Japanese sentiment being prevalent in any notable fraction of the public regarding the 2011 tsunami disaster It was bad journalism to the say the least but to take it further it s an abhorrent journalistic source when taking in the fact that even the article says Some people as in Some people think the disaster was payback for Pearl Harbor while then giving only a few examples of social networking comments If anything is worth noting about that article it s that the author is Asian and likely felt some kind of negative emotion after coming across a few of those posts so he abused his publishing power to try to make a mockery of the few examples he cited