Chinese web users forced a Japanese-themed shopping district to shut its doors after just one week.
Tang Little Kyoto's shopping district shuttered after people accused it of being a form of "Japanese occupation."
The shopping area is part of a $925 million complex made to resemble a Japanese town.
The wrath of Chinese web users has caused the temporary closure of a shopping street in northeastern China that was built to resemble ancient Kyoto.
The Japanese-themed Tang Little Kyoto project was forced to close its doors just one week after its soft launch on August 21, after web users flooded Weibo, the country's Twitter-like platform, with posts accusing the location of being a form of "cultural invasion" by Japan, per Kyodo News.
The Japanese-style township is located an hour's drive from the city of Dalian, in China's coastal Liaoning province. The area was specifically designed to resemble the winding streets of the Ninnenzaka and Sannenzaka slopes leading up to the iconic Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto.
Web users were outraged that traditional Japanese goods were being promoted over Chinese products.
"The existence of this Kyoto shopping street is a betrayal of our local commerce in favor of Japanese businesses," wrote one Weibo user with the ID LengYanYiDing.
Some people suggested that the locale's existence was a form of "Japanese occupation," referring to the Japanese occupation of the area during the 1930s and 40s. Weibo users also re-posted a message that said...
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