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Another racist bus rant caught on camera

Tourists have been the target of a racist tirade on a bus in Sydney's CBD.

Mobile phone footage of the incident was uploaded to social media by 'heidivonb'.

It shows a man who appears to be intoxicated hurling abuse at an Asian couple, at around 7.30pm on Easter Saturday.

"The Japanese...were the only ones to ever bomb Australia... you f**king b**tards," the man yelled.

One of the passengers waves his hands in front of the man as he tries to reason with him.

The middle-aged man, dressed in a white T-shirt and black cap, also yells at the waiting queue as he eventually exits the bus.

Passengers then shuffle onto the bus and the recording ends.

The video post follows a string of similar incidents on public transport in Sydney and Melbourne.

In February, ABC newsreader Jeremy Fernandez says a Sydney bus driver suggested he move seats when a woman was racially abusing him in front of his young daughter.

Fernandez tweeted that he was "called a black c*** & told to go back to my country".

"Anyone who says racism is dying is well and truly mistaken... Just had my own Rosa Parks moment: Kept my seat on a #Sydney Bus," he posted on social media.

Footage of another ugly racist rant on a Melbourne bus, in which a French tourist was told to 'speak English or die', also went viral late last year.

The video showed passengers verbally abusing 22-year-old, Fanny Desaintjores, and her friends on board a bus in the city's southern suburbs.

Ms Desaintjores told the media she feared she would be physically assaulted by fellow passengers, who called her a dog, bi**ch, and a c*** and threatened to cut off her breasts, after she and her mates sang a song in their native tongue.

"I thought he was joking at first and then I realised he wasn't kidding at all, so my friends and I stopped laughing. We were quite afraid that he [would come] and hit us," she said.