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This banner appeared in Saitama Stadium last Saturday in a J-League soccer match between the Urawa Reds and the visiting Sagan Tosu. The banner was hung over the entrance to the goal end section of the stadium where the die-hard Urawa fans gather. Although seen by security guards prior to the kick off, they did not remove until some three hours later after the game was over for fear of "causing a disturbance", i.e. they were scared that the fans would turn on them if they removed it.
Photographs of the sign appeared on Twitter and soon went viral both within Japan and overseas. At first the Urawa Reds obfuscated with the club's chairman stating that they were trying to determine if the banner was actually "discriminatory in intent". 
After a round of forehead slapping and a chorus of "well, duh!" from the media, he subsequently copped on to the fact that intent has nothing to do with it; if somebody (and plenty did) perceives the sign as discriminatory, then its discriminatory.
Further up the Japanese soccer hierarchy the reaction was more trenchant. The J-League ordered the Reds to play their March 23rd game behind closed doors, the first time this has ever happened in professional soccer here. As Urawa are the best supported club in Japan with an average home attendance of 37,000, that is a fairly large chunk of change they will have to give up. 
The club meanwhile has found and banned the 20 supporters who hung the banner. According to the NHK evening news they claimed they hung the banner because there were too many foreigners coming to support the team and thus crowding out the Japanese fans from their beloved goal end position.
So, discriminatory and little boy moronic. 
A welcome follow up to such idiocy was the reaction of the Yokohama Marinos' fans who held up the banner below during their Asian Champions Cup game with the Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande last Wednesday.