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<%3Fxml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"%3F> debito.org http://www.debito.org Arudou Debito s Home Page: Issues of Life and Human Rights in Japan Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:29:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Copyright © debito.org 2011 debito@debito.org (debito.org) debito@debito.org (debito.org) 1440 http://www.debito.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/debitologosmall.jpg debito.org http://www.debito.org 144 144 Arudou Debito s Home Page: Issues of Life and Human Rights in Japan debito.org debito.org debito@debito.org no no DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 4, 2013 http://www.debito.org/?p=11140 http://www.debito.org/?p=11140#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:29:11 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11140 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11140 0 Sneak preview of my next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 60, out tomorrow Tues Feb 5, on why Abe Shinzo could be Japan’s most dangerous postwar PM http://www.debito.org/?p=11135 http://www.debito.org/?p=11135#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:44:38 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11135 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11135 0 Sankei Sports etc: J soccer player Nakamura Yuuki quits Slovakian club, feels victimized by “racial discrimination”; my, how ironic! http://www.debito.org/?p=11120 http://www.debito.org/?p=11120#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:20:37 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11120 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11120 22 Proposal: Establishing a Debito.org YouTube Channel? http://www.debito.org/?p=11113 http://www.debito.org/?p=11113#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:28:09 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11113 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11113 25 NHK on Fukushima: Offering all-expense-paid junkets to NJ journalists, interviews for NJ residents who experienced disasters. What’s the catch? http://www.debito.org/?p=11109 http://www.debito.org/?p=11109#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:32:45 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11109 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11109 21 Update: JA and PTA’s Chagurin Magazine responds to protests re Tsutsumi Mika’s “Children within the Poverty Country of America” article for 6th-Grade kids http://www.debito.org/?p=11086 http://www.debito.org/?p=11086#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:37:58 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11086 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11086 28 Book Review: “At Home Abroad” by Adam Komisarof, a survey of assimilation/integration strategies into Japan (interviews include Keene, Richie, Kahl, Pakkun, and Arudou) http://www.debito.org/?p=11042 http://www.debito.org/?p=11042#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:57:53 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11042 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11042 78 Interesting lawsuits: French “Flyjin” sues employer NHK for firing her during Fukushima Crisis, 8 US sailors sue TEPCO for lying about radiation dangers http://www.debito.org/?p=11037 http://www.debito.org/?p=11037#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:19:26 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11037 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11037 22 Asahi: Media-fostered xenophobia forces prefectural countermeasures against NJ buying “strategic land” http://www.debito.org/?p=10955 http://www.debito.org/?p=10955#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:53:42 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10955 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10955 31 NYT: Xenophobia in Environmental Ministry re exclusionary Fukushima decontam efforts: “Japanese soil is different”, “NJ assistance might scare local grandmas” http://www.debito.org/?p=11013 http://www.debito.org/?p=11013#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:50:05 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11013 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11013 98 Call for help from JALT PALE group for Publications Chair http://www.debito.org/?p=11026 http://www.debito.org/?p=11026#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:27:55 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=11026 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=11026 0 US Senator Daniel Inouye dies, Mazie Hirono Becomes First U.S. Senator Born in Japan; contrast with do-nothing self-gaijinizing Tsurunen http://www.debito.org/?p=10737 http://www.debito.org/?p=10737#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:13:41 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10737 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10737 13 Beate Sirota Gordon, one architect of the Postwar Japanese Constitution, dies at 89, her goals uncompleted if not currently being undone http://www.debito.org/?p=10989 http://www.debito.org/?p=10989#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:32:07 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10989 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10989 12 Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 59: The year for NJ in 2012: a Top 10 http://www.debito.org/?p=10980 http://www.debito.org/?p=10980#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:48:28 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10980 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10980 12 DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 31, 2012 http://www.debito.org/?p=10973 http://www.debito.org/?p=10973#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:48:02 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10973 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10973 0 Next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 59, “Top Ten Human Rights Events for 2012″, out January 1, 2013 http://www.debito.org/?p=10971 http://www.debito.org/?p=10971#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:43:21 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10971 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10971 1 Japan now a place to avoid for international labor migration? NHK: Even Burmese refugees refusing GOJ invitations, electing to stay in Thai refugee camp! http://www.debito.org/?p=10943 http://www.debito.org/?p=10943#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:56:47 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10943 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10943 61 Good news: Rightist sentenced to a year in jail for harassing company using Korean actress in their advertising http://www.debito.org/?p=10924 http://www.debito.org/?p=10924#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:51:38 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10924 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10924 13 Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and end-year 2012 http://www.debito.org/?p=10949 http://www.debito.org/?p=10949#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:25:20 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10949 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10949 4 Al Jazeera: “The mighty downfall of Japan’s tech giants” due to the lack of diversity in thought and innovation http://www.debito.org/?p=10941 http://www.debito.org/?p=10941#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:21:14 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10941 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10941 27 “Japanese Only” hospital Keira Orthopaedic Surgery in Shintoku, Tokachi, Hokkaido. Alleged language barrier supersedes Hippocratic Oath for clinic, despite links to METI medical tourism http://www.debito.org/?p=10915 http://www.debito.org/?p=10915#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:24:13 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10915 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10915 41 Japan’s lurch to the right has happened, as predicted. DPJ routed, LDP and Ishihara ascendant in Dec 2012 LH Election http://www.debito.org/?p=10854 http://www.debito.org/?p=10854#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:26:20 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10854 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10854 89 ACS on Internet smear campaigns in Japan-related cyberspace: Please read and critique this essay. http://www.debito.org/?p=10851 http://www.debito.org/?p=10851#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:25:28 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10851 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10851 31 Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 58, Dec. 11, 2012: “Do Japan a favor: Don’t stop being a critic” http://www.debito.org/?p=10842 http://www.debito.org/?p=10842#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:15:15 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10842 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10842 44 DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 10, 2012 http://www.debito.org/?p=10839 http://www.debito.org/?p=10839#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:09:29 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10839 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10839 0 Irony: GOJ pushes citizen ID law despite outcry over J privacy rights. Sadly, never similar concerns for NJ privacy, natch. http://www.debito.org/?p=10514 http://www.debito.org/?p=10514#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:16:02 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10514 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10514 11 2nd Edition of HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, & IMMIGRANTS to Japan on sale Dec 2012, updated http://www.debito.org/?p=10821 http://www.debito.org/?p=10821#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:19:23 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10821 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10821 4 PTA-recommended “Chagurin” mag puts propaganda article “Children within the Poverty Country of America” in Japan’s 6th-Grader classrooms http://www.debito.org/?p=10806 http://www.debito.org/?p=10806#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:47:01 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10806 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10806 51 Kyodo: UN HRC prods Japan on sex slaves, gallows. But the elephant in the room still remains no law against racial discrimination in Japan http://www.debito.org/?p=10730 http://www.debito.org/?p=10730#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:21:01 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10730 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10730 3 SITYS: IC Chips in new NJ Gaijin Cards are remotely scannable, as witnessed in USG’s Faraday Envelopes to protect cardholders’ privacy http://www.debito.org/?p=10750 http://www.debito.org/?p=10750#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:13:26 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10750 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10750 66 NYT on Donald Keene “becoming one of them”, in an underresearched article that eulogizes the man before time http://www.debito.org/?p=10721 http://www.debito.org/?p=10721#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:02:31 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10721 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10721 13 Archiving Tottori’s 2005 Jinken Ordinance (the first and only one ever passed, then UNpassed, penalizing racial discrimination in Japan) to keep it in the historical record http://www.debito.org/?p=10762 http://www.debito.org/?p=10762#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:20:32 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10762 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10762 6 Interesting debate on martial arts as newly required course in JHS under Japan’s Basic Education Law reforms http://www.debito.org/?p=10650 http://www.debito.org/?p=10650#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:27:29 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10650 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10650 14 BBC: Japan’s pseudoscience linking personality traits to blood types. I say it dumbs society down. http://www.debito.org/?p=10728 http://www.debito.org/?p=10728#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:11:41 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10728 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10728 37 My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 57, November 6, 2012: “If bully Ishihara wants one last stand, bring it on” http://www.debito.org/?p=10733 http://www.debito.org/?p=10733#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:09:49 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10733 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10733 36 DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 6, 2012 http://www.debito.org/?p=10725 http://www.debito.org/?p=10725#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:53:54 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10725 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10725 7 AP: Where Japan’s Post-Fukushima rebuild cash really went: Corruption and coverup on grand scale in a crisis that even TEPCO admits “could have been avoided” http://www.debito.org/?p=10706 http://www.debito.org/?p=10706#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:10:34 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10706 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10706 28 Wash Post: A declining Japan loses its once-hopeful champions (including Ezra Vogel!) — as Japan is eclipsed by an ascendant China http://www.debito.org/?p=10698 http://www.debito.org/?p=10698#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:08:07 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10698 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10698 45 Ishihara resigns Tokyo Governorship, seeks Diet seat as new party head. I say bring it on. http://www.debito.org/?p=10694 http://www.debito.org/?p=10694#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:01:13 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10694 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10694 35 BV: “Victimizing the Young, Featherbedding the Old?” On how Japan’s elite bureaucratic rot is adversely affecting Japan’s children http://www.debito.org/?p=10687 http://www.debito.org/?p=10687#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:08:38 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10687 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10687 53 Sakanaka in Japan Times: Japan as we know it is doomed, only immigrants can save it http://www.debito.org/?p=10690 http://www.debito.org/?p=10690#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:52:36 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10690 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10690 52 Kyodo: NJ on welfare (unlike Japanese on welfare) now need to pay pension premiums, says Japan Pension Service http://www.debito.org/?p=10679 http://www.debito.org/?p=10679#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:30:20 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10679 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10679 15 ZakSPA!: “Laughable” stories about “Halfs” in Japan, complete with racialized illustration http://www.debito.org/?p=10674 http://www.debito.org/?p=10674#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:31:00 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10674 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10674 29 Shuukan Kin’youbi: Protests against NJ businesses in Tokyo turn ugly, yet J media compares Chinese protests against J businesses to Kristallnacht http://www.debito.org/?p=10659 http://www.debito.org/?p=10659#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:05:33 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10659 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10659 21 The first version of my Oct 2012 JT JUST BE CAUSE column (rejected for publication) blogged for your comments, on “sanctioned reality”: Do you “get” it? http://www.debito.org/?p=10656 http://www.debito.org/?p=10656#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:40:40 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10656 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10656 40 Japan Times: Japan Post Office unilaterally decides old “Gaijin Cards” no longer acceptable ID, despite still valid under MOJ http://www.debito.org/?p=10632 http://www.debito.org/?p=10632#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:37:46 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10632 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10632 16 Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 56 on the Senkakus/Takeshima Disputes: “Revisionists marching Japan back to a dangerous place” http://www.debito.org/?p=10645 http://www.debito.org/?p=10645#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:53:59 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10645 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10645 25 DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 1 2012 http://www.debito.org/?p=10630 http://www.debito.org/?p=10630#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:40:17 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10630 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10630 0 “From the Shadows” documentary on Japan’s child abductions debuts in Philly Film Festival Oct 23 & 27, tickets on sale now http://www.debito.org/?p=10610 http://www.debito.org/?p=10610#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:57:04 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10610 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10610 5 Mainichi: Japan’s only human rights museum likely closing after Osaka Gov Hashimoto defunds, says doesn’t teach Japan’s “hopes & dreams” http://www.debito.org/?p=10619 http://www.debito.org/?p=10619#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:39:45 +0000 debito http://www.debito.org/?p=10619 http://www.debito.org/?feed=rss2&p=10619 22