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- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 4, 2013
- 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
- Sankei Sports etc: J soccer player Nakamura Yuuki quits Slovakian club, feels victimized by “racial discrimination”; my, how ironic!
- Proposal: Establishing a Debito.org YouTube Channel?
- NHK on Fukushima: Offering all-expense-paid junkets to NJ journalists, interviews for NJ residents who experienced disasters. What’s the catch?
- 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
- Book Review: “At Home Abroad” by Adam Komisarof, a survey of assimilation/integration strategies into Japan (interviews include Keene, Richie, Kahl, Pakkun, and Arudou)
- Interesting lawsuits: French “Flyjin” sues employer NHK for firing her during Fukushima Crisis, 8 US sailors sue TEPCO for lying about radiation dangers
- Asahi: Media-fostered xenophobia forces prefectural countermeasures against NJ buying “strategic land”
- NYT: Xenophobia in Environmental Ministry re exclusionary Fukushima decontam efforts: “Japanese soil is different”, “NJ assistance might scare local grandmas”
- Call for help from JALT PALE group for Publications Chair
- US Senator Daniel Inouye dies, Mazie Hirono Becomes First U.S. Senator Born in Japan; contrast with do-nothing self-gaijinizing Tsurunen
- Beate Sirota Gordon, one architect of the Postwar Japanese Constitution, dies at 89, her goals uncompleted if not currently being undone
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 59: The year for NJ in 2012: a Top 10
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 31, 2012
- Next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 59, “Top Ten Human Rights Events for 2012″, out January 1, 2013
- Japan now a place to avoid for international labor migration? NHK: Even Burmese refugees refusing GOJ invitations, electing to stay in Thai refugee camp!
- Good news: Rightist sentenced to a year in jail for harassing company using Korean actress in their advertising
- Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and end-year 2012
- Al Jazeera: “The mighty downfall of Japan’s tech giants” due to the lack of diversity in thought and innovation
- “Japanese Only” hospital Keira Orthopaedic Surgery in Shintoku, Tokachi, Hokkaido. Alleged language barrier supersedes Hippocratic Oath for clinic, despite links to METI medical tourism
- Japan’s lurch to the right has happened, as predicted. DPJ routed, LDP and Ishihara ascendant in Dec 2012 LH Election
- ACS on Internet smear campaigns in Japan-related cyberspace: Please read and critique this essay.
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 58, Dec. 11, 2012: “Do Japan a favor: Don’t stop being a critic”
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 10, 2012
- Irony: GOJ pushes citizen ID law despite outcry over J privacy rights. Sadly, never similar concerns for NJ privacy, natch.
- 2nd Edition of HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, & IMMIGRANTS to Japan on sale Dec 2012, updated
- PTA-recommended “Chagurin” mag puts propaganda article “Children within the Poverty Country of America” in Japan’s 6th-Grader classrooms
- Kyodo: UN HRC prods Japan on sex slaves, gallows. But the elephant in the room still remains no law against racial discrimination in Japan
- SITYS: IC Chips in new NJ Gaijin Cards are remotely scannable, as witnessed in USG’s Faraday Envelopes to protect cardholders’ privacy
- NYT on Donald Keene “becoming one of them”, in an underresearched article that eulogizes the man before time
- 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
- Interesting debate on martial arts as newly required course in JHS under Japan’s Basic Education Law reforms
- BBC: Japan’s pseudoscience linking personality traits to blood types. I say it dumbs society down.
- My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 57, November 6, 2012: “If bully Ishihara wants one last stand, bring it on”
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 6, 2012
- 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”
- Wash Post: A declining Japan loses its once-hopeful champions (including Ezra Vogel!) — as Japan is eclipsed by an ascendant China
- Ishihara resigns Tokyo Governorship, seeks Diet seat as new party head. I say bring it on.
- BV: “Victimizing the Young, Featherbedding the Old?” On how Japan’s elite bureaucratic rot is adversely affecting Japan’s children
- Sakanaka in Japan Times: Japan as we know it is doomed, only immigrants can save it
- Kyodo: NJ on welfare (unlike Japanese on welfare) now need to pay pension premiums, says Japan Pension Service
- ZakSPA!: “Laughable” stories about “Halfs” in Japan, complete with racialized illustration
- Shuukan Kin’youbi: Protests against NJ businesses in Tokyo turn ugly, yet J media compares Chinese protests against J businesses to Kristallnacht
- 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?
- Japan Times: Japan Post Office unilaterally decides old “Gaijin Cards” no longer acceptable ID, despite still valid under MOJ
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 56 on the Senkakus/Takeshima Disputes: “Revisionists marching Japan back to a dangerous place”
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 1 2012
- “From the Shadows” documentary on Japan’s child abductions debuts in Philly Film Festival Oct 23 & 27, tickets on sale now
- Mainichi: Japan’s only human rights museum likely closing after Osaka Gov Hashimoto defunds, says doesn’t teach Japan’s “hopes & dreams”
- AP Interview: Japan Nuke Probe Head Kurokawa defends his report, also apportions blame to NJ for Fukushima disaster!
- Success, of a sort, as a “Gaijin Mask” maker amends their racist product to “Gaikokujin Masks”. Same racialized marketing, though.
- Kyodo: J airport “random body searches” start October. On “int’l passengers”, naturally, so not so random, considering police precedents of racial profiling
- Weird “Japanese Only” advertisement in U Hawaii Manoa Ka Leo student newspaper by Covance asking for medical-experiment volunteers
- Discussion: JDG, Harumi Befu et.al on the end of Japan’s internationalization and swing towards remilitarization
- Diet session ends, Hague Convention on Int’l Child Abductions endorsement bill not passed
- Kyodo: “Foreign caregiver program faces tightening”: Death knell of program as J media finds ways to blame the gaijin?
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 55: Toot your own horn — don’t let the modesty scam keep you down
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
- Sneak Preview: My next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 55 on the adverse affects of modesty and humility
- Vacationing Debito.org for the rest of the summer
- Tokyo Gov Ishihara at it again, calls NJ judo Olympians “beasts” spoiling Japan’s sport
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 54 Aug 7, 2012: “For nikkei immigrants in Japan, it doesn’t have to be a bug’s life”
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER AUGUST 5, 2012
- Resurrecting Gregory Clark’s embarrassingly xenophobic Japan Times column on “Global Standards” Nov 1, 1999, quietly deleted without retraction from JT Online archives
- Tangent: Newsweek column on “rising ugly nationalism towards foreign residents” in China. Hm, how about an eye on Japan?
- Japan Times on reaffirmed J workers’ “right to strike”, thanks to judicial precedent set by defeated 2012 nuisance lawsuit from eikaiwa Berlitz Inc.
- Japan Times: “Ninjin-san ga Akai Wake” Book is behind bullying of mixed-race children; contrast with “Little Yellow Jap”
- Yomiuri: Iwate town sponsors Vietnamese future doctor — and people reportedly react with trepidation
- Weird Tangent: Panasonic campaign targeting and bribing NJ Facebook users in violation of Facebook privacy policy
- H-Japan on “Apartheid or Academic Accuracy: Japan’s Birth Rate”, Tohoku U Prof Yoshida’s demographic research methodologically excludes “foreigner births”
- Tangent: Parliamentary Independent Investigation Commission Report on Fukushima Disaster “Made in Japan”: MD notes ironies of different Japanese and English versions
- Hurrah, the separate Alien Registration System is abolished after 60 years. Now let’s consider the GOJ give & take regarding tracking NJ under this policy
- Weekend Tangent: Louis Vuitton Journeys Award shortlisted J movie short has multicultural couple
- Suraj Case: Chiba prosecutors decide not to indict 10 Immigration officers in whose custody he died
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 53 July 3, 2012: “In formulating immigration policy, no seat at the table for NJ”
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JULY 2, 2012
- Asia Pacific Bulletin: “Accepting Immigrants: Japan’s Last Opportunity for Economic Revival”
- GOJ Cabinet “Coexistence with NJ” Pt. 2: Critique of June 15, 2012 meeting — a very positive Third Act to this Political Theatre
- NYT: A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands; the overwriting of NJ legacies in Ogasawaras
- Kyodo: Foreign caregiver exits put program in doubt, complete with editorial slant blaming NJ for being fickle
- Japan Times LIFELINES guest columnist Dr Berger on “Dealing with isolation and exclusion in Japan”. Seems grounded in stereotypes.
- China’s crackdown on foreigners called “xenophobic” by CNN columnist. Yet Japan’s been overtly doing the same to its NJ for generations without similar criticism.
- The Govinda (Mainali) miscarriage of justice murder case ruled for retrial after 15 years, so Immigration deports him. But there’s more intrigue.
- GOJ embryonic policymaking reboot for “co-existence with foreigners”: Some good stuff, but once again, policy about NJ without any input from them
- My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column June 5, 2012: Guestists, Haters, the Vested: Apologists take many forms
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 4, 2012
- Kyodo: Municipalities to deny services to illegal NJ; Kuchikomi: Rising NJ welfare chiselers “social parasites”
- Baye McNeil’s “Loco in Yokohama” blog brings up uncomfortable truths in the debate on racism in Japan
- Discussion: Aly Rustom on “Ways to fix Japan”
- WSJ: “‘Expats’ Say Goodbye to Gaijin Card”, needs more research beyond “Expat” conceits
- Japan Times HAVE YOUR SAY column solely devoted to the May 1 JBC column on “Microaggressions”
- Yomiuri scaremongering: Foreign buyers snap up J land / Survey shows foreigners use Japanese names to hide acquisitions
- Japan Times May 1, 2012 JBC “Microaggression” column now translated into Taiwanese Chinese.
- Iida Yumiko on the nation-state, and how it includes people in the national narrative for its own survival (or in Japan’s case, how it doesn’t)
- Commemorating the Japan Times Community Page’s 10th Anniversary, a brief column by Arudou Debito, May 8, 2012
- USG Asst Sec of State links post-divorce Japan child abductions with DPRK abductions of Japanese
- JT Editorial: Tokyo Metro Govt fuels “Flyjin” myth with flawed survey; yet other NJ who should know better buy into it
- Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column May 1, 2012, “Yes, I can use chopsticks: the everyday ‘microaggressions’ that grind us down”
- DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER APRIL 30, 2012