We watch 45 hours of sumo wrestling beamed from Japan each year.
By now it is no longer a novelty seeing their social norm of wearing surgical masks in public..

Many westerners are not so used to this,
and can make clumsy poorly considered remarks when first noticing it.
But, in the greater context of this developing 'pandemic' crisis,
knee jerk accusations of racism
are somewhat self indulgent, and do create distracting unhelpful antagonisms...

.. and we still don't know for certain if the March sumo tournament is still going ahead...???

But look on the bright side..
Elderly life-long real racists will die in the coming months.....