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PUBLISHED BOOKS:
NEW!  HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS TO JAPAN

(ARUDOU Debito and HIGUCHI Akira, Akashi Shoten Inc, English and furigana Japanese, March 2008)
Table of Contents, reviews, ordering procedures, and book excerpt here.
ISBN 978-4-7503-2741-9, 372 pages, price 2300 yen plus tax

TWO OF SEVERAL REVIEWS (more at link immediately above):

--Donald Richie, The Japan Times Asian Bookshelf column, April 20, 2008.

"Japanese Only--The Otaru Hot Spings Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"
By Arudou Debito
2006 Revised Version ISBN 4-7503-9018-6

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JAPANESE VERSION: 272 pages, 2500 yen, ISBN: 4-7503-9011-9 Revised 2007
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「ジャ パニーズ・オンリー」
小 樽温泉入浴拒否問題と人種差別
単行本(有道 出人 著)日本語です。

キャプション

 「アジア人お断り」。もし海外でこの看板を目 にしたら、どう思いますか?
 「外国人お断り」という看板を掲げた小樽市内の入浴施設が、一律に、外国人のような外見の人の入浴を拒否した。これは人種差別ではないのか?ある外国人 らはそう抗議を始め、この問題が世界的に知り渡った。そして永年、市をはじめとする行政がこうした状態を放置したため、入浴施設と小樽市を提訴し、現在は 継続中。この問題の発端から現在までを原告一人、有道出人が書いた本書は日本に鋭く問いかけるーー日本の真の国際化とは何か?日本における人権とは何か?

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JOURNALISTIC PUBLICATIONS:
  1. Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 3 on Academic Social Responsibility: Activism vs. Academia (May 6, 2008)
  2. Japan Times ZEIT GIST Community Page column 43, "Summit Wicked This Way Comes", on the Japanese Government's bad habits brought out by the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit (April 22, 2008).
  3. Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 2:  "Public Forums, Spinning Wheels":  On why local "International Forums" are often wasted opportunities. (April 1, 2008)
  4. Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 1:  "Dusting off the A-Word":  On activism in Japan and why the word "activist" is such a bad label.  (March 4, 2008)
  5. Japan Times article:  "THE MYOPIC STATE WE'RE IN:  Fingerprint scheme exposes xenophobic, short-sighted trend in government" (December 18, 2007)
  6. Japan Times article:  "'GAIJIN CARD' CHECKS SPREAD AS POLICE DEPUTIZE THE NATION" (November 13, 2007)
  7. Metropolis Magazine THE LAST WORD Column #709:  "BAD IMPRESSIONS:  Japan's new policy of fingerprinting foreigners is cack-handed and callous" (October 26, 2007)
  8. Unpublished illustration by Arudou Debito for Japan Times column Oct 23 2007Japan Times article:  "HUMAN RIGHTS SURVEY STINKS:  Government effort riddled with bias, bad science" (October 23, 2007)
  9. Trans Pacific Radio "Shasetsu" column:  "RUMBLE AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS--A hearing on human rights is disrupted by right wingers" (September 10, 2007).
  10. Japan Times article: "THE SCAPEGOATING OF ASASHORYU: Champion's antics are least of sumo's worries".  Co-authored with James Eriksson (September 4, 2007).
  11. Japan Times article: "THE BLAME GAME: Convenience, creativity seen in efforts to scapegoat Japan's foreign community" (August 28, 2007).
  12. Japan Times article: "ABUSE, RACISM, LOST EVIDENCE DENY JUSTICE IN VALENTINE CASE: Nigerian's ordeal shows that different standards apply for foreigners in court" (August 14, 2007).
  13. Trans Pacific Radio "The Last Word" column, at the end of TPR News:  "WHY I LOVE JAPANESE ELECTIONS" (July 27, 2007).  Text and podcast available here.
  14. Japan Times article: "SCHOOLS SINGLE OUT FOREIGN ROOTS:  International kids suffer under archaic rules" (July 17, 2007).  Scanned PDF version of the article here.
  15. Japan Times article: "DEMISE OF CRIME MAGAZINE HISTORIC:  Gaijin Hanzai's withdrawal from the market showed real power of 'newcomers' for the first time" (March 20, 2007)
  16. Japan Times article: "UPPING THE FEAR FACTOR:  There is a disturbing gap between actual crime in Japan and public worry over it" (February 20, 2007)
  17. Japan Times article: "PULLING THE WOOL:  Japan's pitch for the UN Human Rights Council was disingenuous at best" (November 7, 2006)
  18. Japan Times article: "A WAY FORWARD?  New immigration proposals are a step in the right direction" (July 11, 2006)
  19. Japan Times article: "RIGHTING A WRONG: United Nations representative Doudou Diene's trip to Japan has caused a stir" (June 27, 2006)
  20. "DIVORCE IN JAPAN:  What a Mess!"  Article for Success Stories Japan, a newsletter with briefings for the business executive, issue dated June 2006.  (text of article available here).  This is an excerpt and adaptation of our upcoming book HANDBOOK FOR NON-JAPANESE RESIDENTS (working title).
  21. Japan Times article:  "HOW TO KILL A BILL: Tottori's Human Rights Ordinance is a case study in alarmism" (May 2, 2006)
  22. 「外国人狩り」の様相 日本人誤認逮捕も必然的」民団新聞2006年4月5日。民 団新聞サイトにある記事はこちらです
  23. Japan Times article:  "TWISTED LEGAL LOGIC DEALS RIGHTS BLOW TO FOREIGNERS:  McGowan ruling has set a very dangerous precedent" (February 7, 2006)
  24. Japan Times article: "TAKING THE 'GAI' OUT OF 'GAIJIN':  Immigration influx is inevitable, but can assimilation occur?" (January 24, 2006) (Adapted from a longer Japan Focus academic article of January 12, 2006)
  25. Japan Times article: "LAWSUIT-FREE LAND A MYTH: Who says people don't sue in Japan? They do, and sometimes it makes a difference." (January 3, 2006)
  26. Japan Times article: "THE "IC YOU CARD": Computer-chip card proposals for foreigners have big potential for abuse" (November 22, 2005)
  27. Japan Times article: "MINISTRY MISSIVE WRECKS RECEPTION: MHLW asks hotels to enforce nonexistent law" (October 18, 2005)
  28. Japan Times article, co-authored with Eric Johnston: "VISA CRACKDOWN--Don't get burned: Immigration is cracking down, so make sure you have the right visa" (i.e. one that will not get voided by doing part-time "baito" work (June 28, 2005)
  29. Japan Times article: "HERE COMES THE FEAR: Antiterrorist law creates legal conundrums for foreign residents" (May 24, 2005)--with UPDATE including Mainichi Shinbun article of February 8, 2006, demonstrating that the article's claims are indeed coming true.
  30. Japan Times article: "CREATING LAWS OUT OF THIN AIR: Revisions to hotel laws stretched by police to target foreigners" (March 8, 2005)
  31. Japan Times article: "RACISM IS BAD BUSINESS: Overseas execs tired of rejection, 'Japanese Only' policies are turning international business away from Japan" (January 4, 2005)
  32. "What Writers Read in 2004" Daily Yomiuri Feature, December 26, 2004 (excerpt)
  33. Japan Times article: "GET ON THEIR CASE: Some advice on what to do if you feel that you've been the victim of discrimination" (Nov. 30, 2004)
  34. "JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hotspring Case and Discrimination Against 'Foreigners' in Japan", Znet, November 16, 2004.
  35. "COMING CLEAN AT LAST:  The Otaru Onsens Case exposes Japan's half-measured approach to eliminating discrimination."  Metropolis Magazine, "The Last Word" column, Issue 554 (November 2004).
  36. WHAT'S バリア・フリー?『人種差別撤廃法』で差別のない社会の実現を」「月刊クーヨン」(クレヨンハウス出版)2004年10月号
  37. Japan Times article: "REPLACEMENT IMMIGRATION--THE PROS AND CONS: Barry Brophy and Debito Arudou offer two views on the immigration system" (Sept 14, 2004)
  38. "Japan's Hard Line on Foreigners who stay too long": Nikkei Voice (a national newspaper for Japanese Canadians), July-August 2004 (article excerpted from this internet essay)
  39. Japan Times article: "KNOW THE LAW: As terror fears cause crackdown, foreign residents should know their legal rights" (July 27, 2004)
  40. Japan Times article: "VISA VILLAINS: Japan's new Immigration law overdoes enforcement and penalties" (June 29, 2004)
  41. Japan Times article: "KIDNAP CRISIS POSES A NEW RISK: Japan's outrage toward the former hostages in Iraq could result in bad public policy" (May 11, 2004)
  42. Japan Times article: "DOWNLOADABLE DISCRIMINATION: The Immigration Bureau's new snitching Web site is both short-sighted and wide open to all manner of abuses." (March 30, 2004)


    (Illustration by Arudou Debito)

  43. "DISCRIMINATION IN JAPAN: Racial Profiling by Police": Nikkei Voice (a national newspaper for Japanese Canadians), February 2004
  44. Japan Times article: "FORENSIC SCIENCE FICTION: Bad science and racism underpin police policy" (January 13, 2004)
  45. Japan Times article, "FREEDOM OF SPEECH: 'Tainted blood' sees 'foreign' students barred from English contests" (Jan 6, 2004)
  46. 秋田市にてディスコの啓発が成功、三沢 市にて排他的ポリシー撤廃失敗」特定非営利活動法人 多民族共生人権教育センター(MEHREC-PE)出版 メ& minus;レック通信 Vol. 33, 2003年12月31日(朝刊 pg1)
  47. Asahi Shinbun English-language POINT OF VIEW Column, "IF CARTOON KIDS HAVE IT, WHY NOT FOREIGNERS?" (Dec 29, 2003) A translation of my Nov 8 2003 Asahi "Watashi no Shiten" column, included below and at the above link.
  48. Japan Times article: "UNUSUAL ELECTION FULL OF PROMISE: Election results are good news for Japanese politics", (Nov 18, 2003)
  49. 住民票 アニメに交付、外国人には?朝日新聞「私の視点」コラム2003年11月8日(朝刊 pg21)
  50. Japan Times article: "Time To Come Clean on Foreign Crime: Rising crime rate is a problem for Japan, but pinning blame on foreigners not the solution" (Oct 7, 2003). Authorship unbilled at The Japan Times Website, or original bilingual text file with live links available here.
  51. Japan Times article on Japan's National Sports Meets (Kokutai), and how Japan's amateur sports leagues refuse foreign residents' participation: "A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?: National Sports Festival bars gaijin, and amateur leagues follow suit" (Sept 30, 2003)
  52. 「米国系日本人として我が国での意識高揚について」同和教育第496号 2003年7月25日16ページ、「人権文化を拓く」欄  第77号 (Japanese jpeg)
  53. Japan Times article on Japanese police abuse of authority: "WATCHING THE DETECTIVES: Japan's human rights bureau falls woefully short of meeting its own job specifications" (July 8, 2003)
  54. Japan Times article on JCLU MAY 2003 ANTIRACIAL DISCRIMINATION LAW PROPOSAL, with bonus sidebars on Japan's UN Human Rights record, and legislative resistance to grass-roots antidiscrimination inputs. (June 3, 2003)
  55. 『外国人お断り』人種差別撤廃へ法整備を」 (SARSによるホテルの恐怖感と一律外国人客お断りの方針)朝日新聞「私の視 点」コラム2003年6月2日(朝刊、pg14)(jpg)
  56. Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)'s online journal "Miyakodayori", Article #70, May 23, 2003 on "JAPAN AS TOURIST DESTINATION?"
  57. Japan Times article on SEAL "TAMA-CHAN" AND RIGHTS OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY IN JAPAN (March 4, 2003)
  58. Japan Times article on NATURALIZATION IN JAPAN (Jan 28, 2003)
  59. 「立法府よ、人種差別禁止法を!」民 主党さっぽろ(新聞)第281号、2003年1月24日2ページ
  60. Japan Times article on FOREIGN CRIME STATISTICS IN JAPAN (Oct 4, 2002)
  61. Japan Times article on NTT DOCOMO FOREIGNER TARIFF (Aug 29, 2002)
  62. Japan Times article on TOKYO POLICE BIKE CHECKPOINTS (June 20, 2002)
  63. Burakumin Liberation League articles (Japanese): 部落解放同盟経由出版
    1. 第45回全国青年集会(群馬県水上町、2001年8月25日ー27日)の流れと記念講演ゲスト・スピーカー私(写真はひ どいですけど)は部落解放新聞でレポートが出ました(2001 年9月1日版
    2. 部落解放新聞(埼玉)も記事記載643号(2001年9月10日版
    3. 部落解放新聞(埼玉)に「小樽の入浴拒否事件」、私が書いた記事3連載: 647号, 2001年11月1日 、648号, 2001年11月15日、649号, 2001年12月1日
    4. 解放出版社編集部(大阪)の JINKEN BOOK NEWSメールマガジン:「航空会社AIR-DOと『外人』とみられる乗客の劣等待遇」、「フジテレビの『外人』発言、帰 化した人も『外国人』と?」(2000年 2月号
  64. Japan Today (a news website) Columns Sixteen through Eighteen on Anthrax scares, Bush's America, and Muneo in the Japanese Diet (published Oct 24, 2001, Feb 19, and Feb 26 2002). Text of all three articles here.
  65. Japan Today Columns Thirteen through Fifteen (published Aug 20, Sept 12, and Oct 3 2001) on Voting in Japan, September 11, and Racial Profiling. Text of all three articles here.
  66. Japan Today Columns Ten through Twelve (published June 1, June 22, and July 16 2001) on Sports' Days (undoukai), Japan's misguided internationalization, and Peru's refugee ex-Prez Alberto Fujimori. Text of all three articles here.
  67. Japan Today Columns Seven through Nine (published Mar 19, April 19, and May 11 2001) on Japanese investment strategies, TV Show Koko Ga Hen, and northern onsens' new exclusionary strategies. Text of all three articles here.
  68. Japan Today Columns Four through Six on the Otaru Excusionary Onsens Case (published Jan 19, Feb 5, and Feb 27 2001). Text of all three articles here.
  69. Japan Today Columns One through Three on the hows and whys of taking out Japanese citizenship (published Dec 20, Dec 27 2000, and Jan 5 2001). Text of all three articles here.
  70. KQED-FM San Francisco National Public Radio (NPR) "Pacific Time" Broadcasts on naturalization, broadcast Dec 15, 22, and 29, 2000. Text of three shows here with some feedback from San Francisco listeners.
  71. Letters to XENE Magazine re their faux survey (actually a paid advertisement from Otaru City) on Otaru Onsens in their April-May 2000 issue. (Japanese version of the letter published Aug-Sept 2000, English Oct-Nov 2000, both here)
  72. The New Observer, "Inequalities in Hokkaido", November 1999, reporting on Otaru Onsens.
  73. The New Observer, "Separate but Unequal in Otaru", October 1999, also reporting on Otaru Onsens.
  74. NKK NEWS, April, 1999, on Why immigration will change Japanese society (jpeg here) (text only here).
  75. NKK NEWS, May, 1999, on How one can take out Japanese citizenship (jpeg here) (text only here)
  76. Tokyo Classified, May 15, 1999, on Advice to Japanese university job-seekers (jpeg here) (info site here).
  77. XENE Magazine April-May 1998, pg 15, on the Juuminhyou Mondai-- Foreigners legally being registered as nonresidents and what to do about it (info site here)
  78. The UFJ Newsletter April-May 1998, pg 3, on the same thing.
  79. ACCO NEWS (American Chamber of Commerce in Okinawa) , February 1998 on "How to do Personal Imports" (info site here)
  80. Hokkaido FAZ Magazine December 1997, pp 2-3, on Hokkaido's Natural Appeal.
  81. "Foreign Residents officially made into Non-Residents: The Juuminhyou Mondai": Published in various forms in the New Observer, October 1997, JALT's Journal of Professional Issues, September 1997, and Xene Magazine, February/March 1998 (info site here)
  82. "Intransigence bad for your health", The Asahi Evening News, July 7, 1996, pg 6, article on Japan's overly intransigent medical system. (jpeg here)
  83. "Dodger catch Nomo pitches no morals", The Asahi Evening News, April 27, 1996, pg.6, article critical of baseball star Hideo Nomo's unsportmanlike conduct. (jpeg here)
  84. Letter to the Economist Newsmagazine, February 4, 1995, critical of their coverage of the Kobe Earthquake (jpeg here).
  85. Letter to the Economist Newsmagazine, December 7, 1991, poking fun at their discussion of Hollywood's treatment of British villains (jpegs here).
  86. Letter to the Atlantic Monthly, January 1989, poking fun at their analysis of Japanese culture.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

  1. HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpgJapan Focus article:  "HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS TO JAPAN", excerpt of eponymous book co-authored with Akira Higuchi. (March 23, 2008) 
  2. "Medical Care for Non-Japanese Residents of Japan: Let's look at Japanese Society's General 'Bedside Manner' First", Journal of International Health Vol.23, No.1 2008, pgs 19-21.
  3. Japan Focus article:  "JAPAN'S FUTURE AS AN INTERNATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY: From Migrants to Immigrants" (October 29, 2007) 
  4. Japan Focus article:  "GAIJIN HANZAI MAGAZINE AND HATE SPEECH IN JAPAN:  The newfound power of Japan's international residents" (March 20, 2007) 
  5. Japan Focus article:  "JAPAN'S COMING INTERNATIONALIZATION:  Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?" (January 12, 2006)  (Also reprinted at Znet January 16, 2006, and AsiaMedia News Daily, sponsored by UCLA's Asia Media Institute.)
  6. "On Racism in Japan:  Why One may be Hopeful for the Future", published in the Meiji Gakuin University Workshop Proceedings, Workshop for the Academic Frontier Project: "Social Change in Asia and the Pacific", International Studies of Our New Era:  Immigrants, Refugees, and Women.  Paper given at the Institute for International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, July 17-18, 2005.  (Text of the paper here)
  7. Japan Focus article: "JAPANESE ONLY: The Otaru Hotspring Case and Discrimination Against 'Foreigners' in Japan" (November 2005) 
  8. 論文:「『外国人』入店禁止という人種差別」(有道 出人 著)、単行本『日本の民族差別 人種差別撤廃条約からみた課題)』p218ー229、岡本雅享先生監修・編著、明石書店(株)2005年6月出版 ["'Gaikokujin' nyuuten kinshi to iu jinshu sabetsu" (Banning "Foreigners" Entry is Racial Discrimination). Chapter in book Nihon no Minzoku Sabetsu--Jinshu Sabetsu Teppai Jouyaku kara mita Kadai, Okamoto Masaktaka, Eds. (Akashi Shoten Inc June 2005)]
  9. 「日本にも差別禁止法が必要 外国人入浴拒否、小樽温泉訴訟判決に思う」「部落解放」(月刊誌)513号2003年2月号、 pg64〜70。
  10. 「どこにいても私は私である」:「心の健康」第109号「異文化の中のメンタルヘルス」特集 平成14年8月31日 出版 北海道精神保健協会 発行 pp14-24 (未編集されたJapanese text here)
  11. "Education and Employment Status: Why JALT Should Take Interest in the Issues", in JALT's The Language Teacher Magazine, Working Papers Column, February 2002, pp.27-28. (ISSN 0289-7938). A rougher version of this paper can be seen here.
  12. "'Kokusai Juumin' ni Taishi 21 Seiki no Nihon, Hokkaido no Arubeki Sugata" Foramu Jinbun Dai 3-Gou, Tokushuu, Dai 20 Kai Hokkaido Bunkaron. Sougou Teima: "Hokkaido to Kokusai Kouryuu -- Sono Jisseki to Tamesareru Rinen ("The 20th Hokkaido Culture Lecture Series--Hokkaido and Intercultural Exchange--Achievements and Ideas on Trial"), February 2001. This from a speech given at the abovementioned SGU forum on September 5, 2000. Japanese text of the handout (which was later revised to create the article) given at the speech here.
  13. CAN WE DO BUSINESS? Introduction to Business English (Revised Textbook, independent publisher), Maruzen Planet KK, Tokyo, April, 2000. ISBN 4-944024-82-7
  14. INTERNATIONALIZATION THROUGH TRANSPLANT EDUCATORS: THE JET PROGRAMME PART ONE, Hokkaido Jouhou Daigaku Kiyou, Vol. 11, Issue 1, September, 1999 (ISSN 0915-6658)
  15. A NEW SYSTEM OF UNIVERSITY TENURE: REMEDY OR PROBLEM? co-authored with Fox, Michael H. and Shiozawa, Tadashi, in JALT's The Language Teacher Magazine, August 1999, pp.13-18. (ISSN 0289-7938)
  16. 10+ QUESTIONS FOR YOUR NEXT UNIVERSITY EMPLOYER, in JALT's The Language Teacher Magazine, July 1999, pp.14-16. (ISSN 0289-7938)
  17. "THE JAPANESE WAY OF DEATH: A FUNERAL IN SAPPORO", Japan Policy Research Institute (JPRI) Occasional Paper No. 9, September 1997.
  18. CAN WE DO BUSINESS? Introduction to Business English (Textbook), April, 1996, ISBN 4-925013-28-9
  19. SPEAK YOUR MIND Introduction to Debate (Textbook) April, 1996, ISBN 4-925013-29-7
  20. "New Zealand's Economic Reforms--Were They Worth It?", on free trade vs managed trade, published in Hokkaido Jouhou Daigaku Kiyou, Vol. 7, Issue 2, March, 1996. (ISSN 0915-6658)

INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS
  1. HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpgDebito.org Podcast April 5, 2008, on HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, recorded speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, March 18, 2008, available at Trans Pacific Radio.
  2. Debito.org Podcast on HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, March 12, 2008, available at Trans Pacific Radio.
  3. Debito.org Podcast February 26, 2008, available at Trans Pacific Radio.
  4. Keeping Pace in Japan Blog February 21, 2008, interview regarding HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS.
  5. Debito.org Podcast February 12, 2008, available at Trans Pacific Radio. 
  6. The Sapporo Snow Festival...  and Racial Discrimination in Japan.  Italian TV SKY TG24, interview broadcast nationwide in Italian February 9, 2008. Available as a .mov file on the Debito.org Blog.
  7. Debito.org Podcast February 2, 2008, available at Trans Pacific Radio
  8. Debito.org Podcast December 19, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/12/19/debitoorg-newsletter-for-december-19-2007/
  9. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter December 8, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/12/11/debitoorg-newsletter-for-december-10-2007/
  10. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter November 28, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/11/30/debitoorg-newsletter-for-november-28-2007/
  11. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter November 19, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/11/13/debitoorg-newsletter-for-november-19-2007/
  12. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter November 12, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/11/13/debitoorg-newsletter-for-november-12-2007/
  13. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter November 5, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/11/08/debitoorg-newsletter-for-november-5-2007/
  14. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter October 29, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio. http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/10/31/debito-102907-fingerprints-japan-accenture/
  15. Podcast:  Metropolis Magazine October 26, 2007 (Part two, minute five to fifteen) on Immigration's refingerprinting of non-Japanese at the border.
  16. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter October 20, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio at http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/10/21/debitoorg-newsletter-for-october-20-2007/
  17. Podcast:  Debito.org Newsletter October 13, 2007, available at Trans Pacific Radio at http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/10/16/debitoorg-newsletter-for-october-13-2007/
  18. "Debito Arudou on the Foreign Labor Market and the Valentine Case, Part 2 of 2", Trans Pacific Radio, TPR Spotlight, September 12, 2007.
  19. "Debito Arudou on the Foreign Labor Market (& Duran Duran), Part 1 of 2", Trans Pacific Radio, TPR Spotlight, August 7, 2007.
  20. "Seijigiri's Election Day Special with Debito Arudou", Trans Pacific Radio, Seijigiri Program #29, July 29, 2007.  
  21. An interview with Arudou Debito for BigDaikon, March 28, 2007 (NB: Skype interview, sound quality middling but tolerable).
  22. "A conversation with Debito Arudou", Trans Pacific Radio, Seijigiri Program #19, March 8, 2007.
  23. "Twenty Questions"  Interview with J-Select's "Back Chat--Life in Japan from a Different Perspective", Japan Select Magazine, December 2006, page 74.
  24. Live interview on "Japan and the UN" with Neil Smart, Radio Adelaide, Australia, on November 12, 2006, 8:15-8:30AM.  http://www.radio.adelaide.edu.au
  25. Podcast interview with online journalist Bicyclemark on Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro (released November 6, 2006)
  26. Yamato Damacy episode 23 interview three (Jesse Fuller and Rahman Qureshi, interviewers), released May 24, 2006, on YouTube. (このインタビューは和英放送です)
  27. Yamato Damacy episode 20 interview three (Jesse Fuller and Rahman Qureshi, interviewers), released April 28, 2006, on YouTube. (このインタビューは和英放送です)
  28. Yamato Damacy episode 15 interview two (Jesse Fuller and Rahman Qureshi, interviewers), released March 24, 2006, on YouTube. (このインタビューは和英放送です)
  29. Yamato Damacy episode 13 bilingual interview one (Jesse Fuller and Rahman Qureshi, interviewers), released March 10, 2006, on YouTube. (このインタビューは和英放送です)
  30. Live interview on "Japan's future with immigration", with Radio Adelaide, Australia, on November 4, 2005, 6:40-7AM.  http://www.radio.adelaide.edu.au
  31. アイヌ民族放送「ラジオぴぱうし」でのインタビュー2004年8月17日放送
  32. いつまで続ける?『外国人お断り』の非常識」、 インタビュー、「内海愛子の日本言論」コラム、月刊誌「オルタ」2004年7月号、pg2ー5。アジア太平洋資料センター(PARC)出版
  33. Live interview on the onsens case with Jonathan Lucraft, Radio Adelaide, Australia, on December 1, 2004, 6:45-7AM http://www.radio.adelaide.edu.au
  34. National Public Radio (NPR), ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, July 3, 2003 Broadcast. Title: "A New Yorker in Japan". Abstract: "David Aldwinckle is a typically outspoken native of New York. But where he lives now, he's anything but typical. Aldwinckle -- also known as Arudou Debito -- has become a citizen of Japan. It's a rare and complicated step for a Westerner." Hear it at: http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1319816 (Choose free downloadable audio player here, more help from NPR here)
  35. 部落解放2003年2月 513号:有道 出人 インタビュー 「日本にも差別禁止法が必要 外国人入浴拒否、小樽温泉訴訟判決に思う」pp 64-70
  36. 解放新聞埼玉  第673号 2002年12月15日 4ページ 有道 出人インタビュー「人種差別に有罪判決」と社説
  37. Otaru Lawsuit Decision of Nov 11, 2002--Radio interview with The BBC (link to sound file)
  38. HBC Radio, Mar 26, 2001, 8:30-9:00 PM, has thirty-minute program entitled "Japanese Only", showing how the issue is fermenting. Soundbites from many sides, including eldsters saying they don't want to bathe with foreigners because they stink and spread disease. To listen to the radio program in Japanese in .ra format, please click here.
  39. Radio interview with Chris Flynn, Love FM Fukuoka, on Otaru Onsens Lawsuit, June 30, 2001. The entire eleven-minute interview in English and Japanese is available here as an mp3 soundfile, playable on software such as Real Player (free download here), or as a wma file available here.
  40. Jiji Jaanaru (journal for the bureaucrats), April 1, 2001, pages 10-15, two pages on the onsen issue and a four-page interview (Japanese jpegs start from here) (日本語)
  41. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation As It Happens, Feb 22, 2001, Radio interview on Otaru Lawsuit, playable in Real Audio (free software download here) in English (CBC website archive link here)

CITATIONS IN ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
  1. Sorensen, André:  "Livable Communities in Japan?"  Japan Focus February 1, 2008.
  2. 単行本「グローバル時代の日本社会と国籍」、李洙任と田中宏 著。明石書店2007年5月10日発行、ISBN 978-4-7503-2531-6, pg 45-47.
  3. Pence, Canon, "Japanese Only: Xenophobic Exclusion in Japan's Private Sphere".  New York International Law Review, Summer, 2007, pages 1-73.
  4. Heyden, Carmen: "Gaijin!  Welcome to Japan...  Japan auf dem Weg in eine mulikulturelle Gesellschaft." PRAXIS GEOGRAPHIE (German), Preisliste Nr. 30 vom 1. April 2007. Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann Schroedel Diesterweg Schoeningh Winklers GmbH, publishers.
  5. Burgess, Chris: "Multicultural Japan? Discourse and the 'Myth' of Homogeneity".  Japan Focus March 2007.
  6. 「英語の新しい役割:アジアを結ぶリングア・フランカ」李洙任(Lee, Soo im)著。龍谷大学経済学論集(民際学特集)2007年記載予定。
  7. 第6回移住労働者と連帯する全国のフォーラム・北海道 報告集 第6回移住労働者と連帯する全国のフォーラム・ 北海道実行委員会2007年1月10日発行。42〜48ページ、「分 科会報告:外国人の人権基本法、人種差別禁止法を制定しよう」はここでご覧下さい
  8. Caryl, Christian, and Kashiwagi, Akiko:  "This Is the New Japan: Immigrants are Transforming a Once Insular Society".  Japan Focus October 2006.
  9. Milhaupt, Curtis J.; Ramseyer, J. Mark; and West, Mark D.:  "The Japanese Legal System:  Cases, Codes, and Commentary". Foundation Press, June 2006, ISBN 1-599-41017-6.  Citing Arudou Debito, book "'JAPANESE ONLY': The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan" (Akashi Shoten Inc. 2006).
  10. Minear, Richard, "THROUGH JAPANESE EYES", junior high/high school textbook on Japanese society (forthcoming), citing Arudou Debito's Japan Focus article 176.
  11. Sloss, Colin; Kawahara, Toshiaki; Grassi, Richard:  "Shift the Focus", Lesson 4:  "Discrimination, or Being Japanese...?" pp 18-21, on the Otaru Onsens Case.  Sanshusha Pubilshing Co., Ltd. February, 2006.  ISBN: 4-384-33363-3.
  12. Lee, Soo im; Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen; and Befu, Harumi, eds., "JAPAN'S DIVERSITY DILEMMAS".  iUniverse Inc. 2006.  ISBN 0-595-36257-5.  Two citations, in Chapter 4 (Murphy-Shigematsu, "Diverse Forms of Minority National Identities in Japan's Multicultural Society", pp. 75-99) and Chapter 5 (Lee, "The Cultural Exclusiveness of Ethnocentrism:  Japan's Treatment of Foreign Residents", pp. 100-125).
  13. Spiri, John, "Japanese at Work--a look a the working lives of Japanese people", interview pp. 35-37.  Japan Association for Language Teaching pubs, Special Interest Group for Materials Writers, 2005.  ISBN 4-931424-20-1 More information at http://www.globalstories.net
  14. 聖学院大学 政治経済学部 政治経済学科 2004年度 推進入学審査 小論文問題として記載:有道 出人著の朝日新聞「私の視 点」欄から 「『外国人お断り』人種差別撤廃へ法整備を」(SARSによるホテルの恐怖感と一律外国人客お断りの方針)。2003年6月2日朝刊 pg14(聖学院大学の問題用紙はこちらです。引用された記 事へのリンクはこちらです)(学研(株)出版)
  15. Fujimoto, Etsuko, "Japanese-ness, Whiteness, and the 'Other' in Japan's Internationalization".   Essay from book Transforming Communication About Culture (2002), edited by Mary Jane Collier.  Sage Publications, Inc; 1st edition (December 15, 2001), ISBN-13: 978-0761924883.  Discussed briefly on Japan in Amber blog by Matt Dioguardi here.

CITATIONS IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE AND OVERSEAS MEDIA:

  1. HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg"Helping newcomers settle in Japan", Book Review of HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS TO JAPAN in the Asian Bookshelf by Donald Richie, The Japan Times, April 20, 2008.
  2. "Japanese youth help compatriots embrace diversity", Christian Science Monitor, January 18, 2008.
  3. "Expatriates concerned by plans for Japanese language tests", ABC Radio Austrialia January 18, 2008.
  4. "The future of print: The newspaper business still has a few years left here." Citation within interview with Yukiko Ogasawara, Editor of the Japan Times, by Tony McNicol. Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan No.1 Shimbun December 3, 2007.
  5. "GRENZKONTROLLEN: Japans Furcht vor dem Fremden" (Border Controls:  Japan's fear of foreigners) by Christoph Neumann.  DER SPIEGEL November 26, 2007.  German original here.  English translation here.
  6. "Japan's 1984: Japanese authorities have introduced American-style immigration law.  Foreigners will have to be fingerprinted and photographed every time they enter the country--a law that some regard as Orwellian."  Broadcast by TV network France 24, interview on Japan's new Immigration laws requiring almost all foreigners to be fingerprinted, by Nathalie Tourret.  November 20, 2007, English version online here, French version online here.
  7. "Let's be fair, let Japanese win", regarding restrictions on Non-Japanese athletes in Japanese sports, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Germany), By Chie Matsumoto, October 4, 2007.
  8. JapanZine March 2007 issue: "Japan on the Web 2007": Debito.org included amongst the pick of the "most essential websites for people living in Japan", as a "a mine of information for social activists and Average Joe foreigners living in Japan. His step-by-step guide to handling random ID checks by the police is a time-worn classic."  De nada.
  9. "Japanese confront differences" By Takehiko Kambayashi, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Published March 9, 2007.
  10. "English school condemned for limiting teachers to blond hair, blue eyes". Japan Today/Kyodo News February 12, 2007.
  11. "JAPAN: Magazine's focus on crimes by foreigners sparks outrage; Graphic collage of foreigners' crimes touches on Japanese xenophobia, say rights groups".  South China Morning Post, Wednesday, February 7, 2007.  By Julian Ryall.  Asia Media link here, excerpt on Debito.org blog here.
  12. "Japan Store Withdraws 'Foreigner Crime File' Magazine", By Stuart Biggs and Kanoko Matsuyama.  Bloomberg, February 7, 2007.  Original link here, reproduced on Debito.org blog here.
  13. "You're not big, you're not clever" [re GAIJIN HANZAI Magazine] By Richard Lloyd Parry, The Times Online Weblog, February 4, 2007.
  14. "Magazine plays to Japanese xenophobia; Available in mainstream bookstores, magazine targets Iranians, Chinese, Koreans and US servicemen". Guardian Unlimited (UK) newspaper online, Friday February 2, 2007. By Justin McCurry in Tokyo.
  15. "Good Cop, Bored Cop", article on police targeting of foreigners on bikes.  By Max in the Dodesho column, FUKUOKA NOW Magazine, February 2007.
  16. Japan Times Letter to the Editor December 3, 2006, "As alike as they are different", regarding Gregory Clark's media bully-pulpiting hypocrisy.
  17. "Personality Profile:  Frances Fister-Stoga and Linguapax Asia 2006",  Japan Times, Sept 30, 2006, including details on October 7 2006 speech listed under Speeches section below.
  18. "The New Face of Japan--Foreigners are not only coming--They're staying", on naturalization and Japan's future, in Newsweek Japan, issue dated September 11, 2006 (blogged text also available here).
  19. "UN Envoy Urges Japan to Adopt Anti-Discrimination Legislation", the CERD Committee's Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene's follow-up visit to Japan, by Steven Herman.  Voice of America, May 18, 2006.
  20. "Net boards venue for faceless rightists" (regarding the 2006 2-Channel lawsuit), by Eric Johnston.  Japan Times article, March 14, 2006.
  21. "Looking for the Law in Online Japan's Wild West", by Tim Hornyak.  Japan Media Review, February 16, 2006.
  22. "On the Road to Apartheid?  Japan and the Steve McGowan Case", by Eric Johnston.  Japan Focus article, February 4, 2006.
  23. "Man loses racial discrimination suit against shop", Japan Times, January 31, 2006.
  24. Articles related to Iwamizawa Court victory for defamation of character lawsuit against BBS "2-Channel", Friday and Saturday, January 20-21, 2006.
  25. "ARUDOU DEBITO:  ANGELIC ACTIVIST OR DEVILISH DEMONSTRATOR?"  Review of book JAPANESE ONLY in Japanzine, issue dated December 2005, page 11.
  26. photos courtesy www.kookan.com, alterations courtesy Japanzine"Human Rights NGOs and the Media:  Allies or Adversaries?", by Tony McNicol. University of Southern California's online magazine "Japan Media Review", December 2, 2005.
  27. " JAPAN SEES BEGINNING OF CHANGE." Tony McNicol talks to "Dogs and Demons" author Alex Kerr, who cites activism internalizing domestic debate regarding foreignness. Japan Times Community Page October 25, 2005.
  28. "City off hook over bathhouse barring of foreigners", on Japan Supreme Court Decision refusing to hear the Otaru Onsens Case, Japan Times, April 8, 2005.
  29. "BATHHOUSE PUSHES A FOREIGNER INTO THE DOGHOUSE" Book Review of "JAPANESE ONLY" by Jeff Kingston, Japan Times newspaper, January 30, 2005.
  30. "THE WATER'S FINE, BUT DON'T COME IN", Book Review of "JAPANESE ONLY" by Tom Baker, Daily Yomiuri newspaper, January 16, 2005.
  31. Yomiuri Shinbun Editorial, "Time to end discrimination against foreigners", Daily Yomiuri, December 14, 2004.
  32. "Japanese Only--Debito Arudou is battling racism in Japan one court at a time". JAPAN CLOSE-UP, October 2004, page 38-9.
  33. ARTICLES ON THE OTARU ONSENS LAWSUIT SAPPORO HIGH COURT DECISION OF SEPT 16, 2004 Japan Times/Kyodo, Mainichi Daily, AP/Yahoo News, 道 新前日・当日社 説毎 日前日・当日、朝日・読 売産 経 等, and a BBC World Service Radio broadcast Sept 19, 2004, downloadable as mp3 file (3 minutes 25 seconds)
  34. "THE LOCAL STORY Hot Onsen Mean Hot Lawsuit in Otaru", LET'S GO JAPAN (2004 Edition), pp 696-7, with Olaf Karthaus.
  35. Japan Times, "Never in Japan, can kin 'return' here" (May 20, 2004), on the efficacy of using the word "kikoku" (repatriation) to describe the arrival in Japan of children of Japanese abductees to North Korea.
  36. International Herald Tribune (April 23, 2004), New York Times (May 12, 2004) on discrimination in Wakkanai and Monbetsu, Japan: "Unwelcome Mat: Bars in a Japanese port keep Russians outside".
  37. Al-Jazeera on "Keeping foreigners out of Japan", 12 April 2004.
  38. The Japan Times, March 25, 2004, "DOWNSIDE OF BEING FOREIGN: Discrimination's blatant signs, not roots, easy target."
  39. The Washington Post, Style Section, July 4, 2003, Front Page, entitled "IN JAPAN, US EXPAT FIGHTS THE YANKEE WAY"
  40. Chicago Tribune May 8, 2003: "CRUSADER-CITIZEN TAKES ON JAPAN"
  41. Nihongo Journal Feb 2003, on the Otaru Onsen Lawsuit: "Banning Foreigners from Baths is Discrimination".
  42. International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shinbun, Nov 23-24, 2002, pg 33: "Crusader of Sapporo shrugs off threats in defiant push for change: Fresh from one legal assault against discrimination, Debito Arudou is ready for more."
  43. Otaru Lawsuit Decision of Nov 11, 2002--Citations in IHT/Asahi (JPN), Japan Times (JPN), The Daily Yomiuri (JPN), CNN (US), Mainichi Daily News (JPN), BBC (UK), South China Morning Post (HK), The Guardian (UK), The Los Angeles Times (US), The Age (Australia), The Independent (UK), The New York Times (US), The National Post (Canada), and The BBC again (with radio interview sound file)
  44. Daily Yomiuri Picture Sept 6, 2002The Daily Yomiuri on "A New Breed of Naturalized Citizens" (Sept 6, 2002, pages one and seven)
  45. Citation in Shishin, Alex: "The Problems of Xenophobia and the Teaching of English in Japanese" (July 2002), Erfurt Electronic Studies in English Journal Website, Germany
  46. The Kanji Clinic Website on the Hows and Whys of Learning How to Read and Write Japanese.
  47. The Observer (UK) on both the World Cup exclusions and the Otaru Onsen Case (June 9, 2002)
  48. New York Times, commenting on Sapporo as World Cup 2002 Host City. (June 6, 2002)
  49. International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shinbun, commenting on Sapporo as World Cup 2002 Host City. (June 6, 2002)
  50. Japan Times, April 22, 2002, page 11, "Calm after Otaru Onsen Storm--Public forum finds birthplace no bar to a bath" (a chat with elderly onsen bathers about their feelings about foreigners--an event which almost ended in disaster)
  51. Media Updates (a compendium of articles, English and Japanese) for March 28, 2001, April 13, 2001, May 14, 2001, June 28, 2001, July 5, 2001, July 19, 2001, August 20, 2001, February 15, 2002
  52. Daily Yomiuri, "Official invisibility diminishes foreign spouses' status", on the Residency Certificate (juuminhyou) Problem, Feb 28, 2002.
  53. Daily Yomiuri full-pager on Onsen Problem, Saturday Scene, May 5, 2001. (English)
  54. Hokkaido Shinbun May 4, 2001, on trip to Wakkanai to investigate discriminatory establishments (Japanese). More details on the trip here.
  55. Hokkaido Shinbun and Mainichi Shinbun (both Sorachi-area versions) on people power in my hometown Nanporo, trying to increase popular participation in local government through town meetings with the mayor and assemblypeople. Articles in Japanese dated April 14, April 22 (Doshin, Mainichi), and May 9, 2001. Background in English here.
  56. Japan Times, two articles on naturalization dated April 20, 2001 ("Foreigners face hard slog to Japanese citizenship"), and while I'm at it: April 21, 2001 ("Koreans weigh merits of gaining Japanese citizenship") (English)
  57. Doshin Today monthly magazine, April 2001, page 50-51, features Arudou's views on the Feb 2001 TBS show "Koko Ga Hen" in an article entitled "After the Bashfest--Arudou's Point of View" (fukuro tataki in atta, arudou debito san no iibun). Bonus advertisement for the magazine featuring Arudou's angry-looking mug with the other talking heads--right next to PM Mori. (Japanese jpegs)
  58. HBC TV, Mar 27, 2001, 1:55-2:55 AM, does hourlong documentary on Lawsuit and Onsens Issue, similar in tone to the belowmentioned Mar 26 radio program.
  59. Various Sources, Mar 27, 2001. Court Hearing hits newspaper morning editions: Hokkaido Shinbun, Mainichi, Asahi, and Yomiuri (all Japanese)
  60. HBC Radio, Mar 26, 2001, 8:30-9:00 PM, has thirty-minute program entitled "Japanese Only", showing how the issue is fermenting. Soundbites from many sides, including eldsters saying they don't want to bathe with foreigners because they stink and spread disease. To listen to the radio program in Japanese in .ra format, please click here.
  61. Hokkaido Shinbun, Mar 3, 2001, has two articles, one a morning-edition front-page mini-editorial concerning the Feb 28 show, decrying the stupidity of refusing people by appearance, and the other an evening report on page six covering the Japan discrimination report to the UN, noting that the Japanese government admits that "discrimination occurs in everyday life for foreigners" (Japanese jpgs)
  62. The popular TBS TV show, "Koko ga Hen da yo, Nihonjin" ("Hey Japanese, This is Strange"), Feb 28, 2001, features all three plaintiffs as guests getting asked hardball questions by the foreign and Japanese panelists. Both Defendants, Yunohana and the City of Otaru, refuse to attend. (See transcript and stills from the program: part one, part two, in English and Japanese)
  63. Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, Feb 25, 2001, page 2, fills a half a page in their Sunday Edition with photos of the "Japanese Only" signs and round up of the issues. (English)
  64. Japan Times, Feb 21, 2001, page 3, "Otaru racism controversy lingers on", a huge article with photo on the issue, the lawsuit, and its reprocussions. (English)
  65. Japanese Weekly Pureiboi (not Hefner's "Playboy"), Feb 21, 2001, gives two pages on issue, entitled "The brouhaha over Otaru's baths and the long road to Japan's internationalization", saying "Isn't it time that Japan thinks seriously about how to mix with other cultures?" (Japanese jpeg page one, page two)
  66. California-published Japanese newspaper "Rafu Shinpou", Feb mid-month, 2001, runs article on Arudou Debito, using material from Mainichi Shinbun's "Hito" article of Feb 11, below. (Japanese)
  67. Asahi Evening News, Feb 17, 2001, page 2, "Bathhouse suit plaintiff targeted by hate mail", describes the reactions and reports on the death threat against Arudou Debito's children. (English)
  68. Weekly Shuukan Bunshun, Feb 15, 2001, page 36-7 prints favorable article with Plaintiff Arudou Debito and Lawyer Itou Hideko, entitled "The truthful side of a naturalized American, who sued a bathhouse excluding foreigners" ("gaikokujin okotowari" no yokujou o uttaeta kika beikokujin no mottomo na iibun). (Japanese)
  69. Mainichi Shinbun, Feb 11, 2001, page two does a personal feature on Arudou Debito, entitled"Making a society without racial discrimination for Japan's future" (Shourai no nihon no tame ni jinshu sabetsu naki shakai o) (Japanese)
  70. Courtesy Economist Newsmagazine, Feb 10, 2001, page 32The Economist (London) Feb 10, 2001, features Arudou Debito on page 32, exposing the ridiculousness of Yunohana's four conditions for entry for foreigners only, especially when applied to a Caucasian Japanese citizen. (Click on the article's cartoon at right to see the whole article in English.)
  71. Various sources: Feb 1-3, 2001: Submission and acceptance of Plaintiffs lawsuit documents at Sapporo District Court, Feb 1, 2:30 PM. The following 3PM press conference gets coverage from all Hokkaido TV networks (NHK, HBC, UHB, HTB, and TVH) in evening broadcasts, as well as TV Asahi, BBC, and others we didn't catch. On the following days, the print media publish their articles (Hokkaido Shinbun page one, page two, Asahi and its Evening News, Yomiuri (article one, article two) and its Daily Yomiuri, Mainichi and its Daily News, Jiji, Kyodo, Reuters, Japan Times, NY Times, and more).
  72. Mainichi Shinbun, Jan 31, 2001, Arudou Debito appears in article (page 5) for giving a speech at Jan 30 Justice Ministry Division of Human Rights Deliberation Council meeting. Headline: "Japan is only [OECD] country without law against racial discrimination." (jinshu sabetsu teppaihou ga nai no wa nihon dake). (Text of Arudou's handout to conference in Japanese here)
  73. Hokkaido Shinbun, Jan 16, 2001, Plaintiffs Karthaus, Sutherland, and Arudou's intent to bring a lawsuit against Yunohana Onsen leaked to the press, appearing first in Doshin Choukan page one and page 28, (Japanese jpegs, English translation of both articles here).
  74. Asahi Shinbun Jan 1, 2001, page 2 mentions Arudou Debito being refused at Yunohana Onsen despite being a Japanese citizen, as part of a series of articles predicting Japan's growing pains in the upcoming century. (Japanese, with English translation text here)
  75. New York Times, Nov 29, 2000 "Turning Japanese--It Takes More than a Passport", on Dave Aldwinckle (now Arudou Debito) taking out Japanese citizenship and the aftermath.
  76. Hokkaido Shinbun Nov 6, 2000, "Nihonjin de mo Nyuujou Kyohi", talking about an unnamed American turned Japanese (guess who) getting refused at Yunohana for being a foreigner despite no longer being foreign. (Japanese jpeg)
  77. Hokkaido Shinbun, Oct 27, 2000, on Otaru Onsens, "Mondai Nebukaku, Fukaku Kaiketsu Saku Miezu" (Japanese page one, page two, English translation)
  78. Hokkaido Shinbun, May 7, 2000, page 3 (page one, page two), "Gaikokujin Nyuuyoku Kyohi, Kaiketsu Saku wa?" Debate between Otaru-shi Kokusai Kouryuu Tantou Takeuchi Kazuho and myself.
  79. Asahi Evening News, April 11, 2000, front page, "Onsen Ban Highlights Discrimination"
  80. Ainu Times, "Japanese Only", March 20, 2000 (Ainu and Japanese jpeg cover here)
  81. USA Today, "Japan's foreigners fight back against widespread bias; They say they're denied access to loans, baths, bars", referring to the Steven Herman vs Asahi Bank House Loan Lawsuit, March 8, 2000, Page 24A.
  82. Hokkaido Shinbun, Otaru Doshin, February 26 and 27, 2000, (page one A, page one B, page two), "Zadankai, Gaikokujin Nyuuyoku Kyohi o Kangaeru", two-part article with a debate between an onsen owner, a city official, and me on what is to be done about the Onsens problem.
  83. Hokkaido Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on Issho Kikaku BENCI's Press Conference announcing the anti-discrimination jourei submission to the Otaru city government
  84. Mainichi Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on the same
  85. Asahi Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on the same
  86. Yomiuri Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on the same
  87. New York Times article, November 15, 1999, front page, on discrimination in Japan.
  88. Mainichi Daily News, Peter Hadfield Column, October 3, 1999.
  89. Asahi Evening News article, October 3, 1999, on the formation of The Community
  90. Washington Times article, September 18, 1998, on discrimination in Japan.
  91. Daily Yomiuri article, December 25, 1996, on News Station's Kume Hiroshi's blithe anti-foreigner gaffe.

CITATIONS AND APPEARANCES IN THE JAPANESE MEDIA:

  1. 千曲市で外国人差別など講演・米国出身の准教授」中 日新聞2008年3月23日(朝)pg20
  2. 英 会話講師求人ポスター:「差別助長」指摘で撤去−−甲府/山梨」毎日新聞 2007年2月 14日
  3. 教 師「金髪、碧眼が条件」 英会話学校が求人ポスター」 共同通信2007年2月12日
  4. 求 人広告に「条件」、甲府の英会話学校」 TBS テレビ (2007年2月12日)
  5. 2ch  ひろゆきが「オイラは閉鎖しない」と言い放した自信」サンデー毎日 2007年2月4日
  6. 2 ちゃんねるについて 有道 出人とのインタビューが放送、2007年1月16日23:05より、NTV「ニュースゼロ」で。you tubeでご覧下さい
  7. ネッ ト君臨:第1部・失われていくもの/1(その2)『エサ』総がかりで暴露」(BBS2ちゃんねるの誹謗敗 訴などの件について)、毎日新聞特集2007年1月1日付記載。
  8. 移民国家 ニッポン 出 稼ぎではなく「永住」へ外国人が日本を変える」ニュースウィークジャパン2006年9月13日
  9. ネット掲示板で人権侵害 名誉 棄損の司法救済に不備 2ちゃんねるに勝訴の有道さん指摘」市民・メディア2006年5月12日121号
  10. 名誉毀損の根拠で訴えたBBS2ちゃんねる訴訟、原告有道 出人の勝訴に関連する記事 2006/01/21 (毎日、共同、道新、読売、日経、産経など)
  11. 被告の小樽 市、勝訴確定 入浴拒否訴訟 有道さんの上告棄却 北海道新聞 2005/04/08
  12. 『求ム金髪 白人』人種偏見あおる、批判受け企画中止−HTB映像」北海道新聞朝刊 2004/12/18 pg 32
  13. 小樽温泉人種差別訴訟高裁判決(2004年9月16日)関連記事 Japan Times/Kyodo, Mainichi Daily, AP/Yahoo News, 道 新前日・当日社 説毎 日前日・当日、朝日・読 売産 経 等, and a BBC World Service Radio broadcast Sept 19, 2004, downloadable as mp3 file (3 minutes 25 seconds)
  14. 2004年参院選・この声届きますか。人種 差別 肌で感じる『異質』排除」(カートハウス氏と私の札幌市議会にて人種差別撤廃条例制定『ロビー運動』について、北海道新聞 2004年6月27日付朝刊)
  15. 外 国人の人権守ろう 『基本法』制定へフォーラム準備」北海道新聞2004年1月17日
  16. 外国人お断りはダメです  門前払いよりルール マスター納得 はり紙消える」(秋田さきがけ新聞 2003年12月7日
  17. 住民票 アニメに交付、外国人には?朝日新聞「私の視点」コラム2003 年11月8日(朝刊 pg21)
  18. 『外国人お断り』の入浴 施設問題 外国人船員受け入れて 拒否訴訟の大学高師訴え」北海道新聞オホーツク海版2003年11月17日(朝)
  19. 「よそ者お断り」(「朝日新聞(6月2日付)に『外国人お断り・人種差別撤廃へ』 という奇稿があった。小樽の銭湯で入浴を拒否され『人種差別だ』と訴え300 万円せしめた帰化米国人が著者だ。」週間新潮2003年8月7日号、変見自在コラム 高山正之 帝京大学 教授 著
  20. 共同通信:「国際化の 現実を受け入れて」入浴拒否され係争中 有道 出人 日本社会のおかしさ(信濃毎日新聞2003年6月13日夕刊)(この共同通信の 記事は信濃毎日新聞、福島民友、岐阜新聞、東奥日報、中國新聞、日本海新聞、山形新聞、崎日日新聞、長崎新聞などに記載されました)(jpg)
  21. 『外国人お断り』人種差別撤廃へ法整備を」 (SARSによるホテルの恐怖感と一律外国人客お断りの方針)朝 日新聞「私の視点」コラム2003年6月2日(朝刊、pg14)(jpg)
  22. 小泉首相、国民を無視せず」 朝日新聞 道内版 2003年4月6日 朝刊 27ページ (jpg)
  23. 増え続ける人種差別訴 訟ーー何が問われるのか」。社団法人自由人権協会(JCLU)主催の3月例会レポート、人権新聞第341号、2003年3月28日、 2ページ (jpg)
  24. 在 日外国人はタマちゃん以下?」ニュースウィークジャパン、2003年3月5日、13ページ (jpg)
  25. 差 別国家ニッポン」ニュースウィークジャパン、2003年2月26日、48〜53ページ (jpg)
  26. タマーちゃん住民化のお 祝サイトへリンク!"Celebrating Sealion 'Tama-chan's' newfound residency status"--though taxpaying foreigners cannot get juuminhyou (residency certificates) themselves. Information site by Coordinator Dave Gutteridge on our public celebration (dressing up like sealions and asking for a juuminhyou, Feb 22, 2003), a formal request for registration changes at Yokohama Nishi Ward (Feb 24, 2003), and the copious media coverage at
  27. http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/tamachanmoreinfo.html
  28. 日本語ジャーナル2003 年2月号:「外国人に対する入浴拒否は差別」
  29. 「我是一個很会葱事的人ーー記日籍美國人有道初人」中文導報(在日中国人の新聞)2002年 11月7日 5ページ(中国語)
  30. 小樽温泉訴訟判決(2002年11月11日)日本と外国の新聞の報道はここです朝日新聞判決要旨全国の社説 など)(北海道新聞社説判決骨子 など)(毎日新聞判決要旨 など)(読売新聞解説 など)
  31. 「メンバーズ・オンリー」(W 杯の間、札幌すすきのにて外国人を排斥する看板について)北海道新聞2002年6月11日(夕)
  32. 北海道新聞4月19日朝刊: 「外国人と混浴はどう? 米国出身の有道さん 入浴拒否された施設で討論会」2002年4月18日:の温泉オスパ「フォーラム」について(Japan Times 英字記事も含む)
  33. Burakumin Liberation League Shinbun articles (Japanese): 部落解放同盟経由出版
  34. Lots of other 2000 appearances and quotes at http://www.debito.org/otarulawsuit.html and within articles above
  35. Hokkaido Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on Issho Kikaku BENCI's Press Conference announcing the anti-discrimination jourei submission to the Otaru city government.
  36. Mainichi Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on the same
  37. Asahi Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on the same
  38. Yomiuri Shinbun, January 14, 2000, on the same
  39. NHK January 13, 2000, on Issho Kikaku BENCI's Otaru Press Conference, Prism program, 6:14-6:19 pm (English translation of the teletext here)
  40. HBC January 13, 2000, on Issho Kikaku BENCI's Otaru Press Conference
  41. HBC January 12, 2000, on the Otaru onsens problem.
  42. Hokkaido Shinbun, November 18, 1999, on Otaru Onsens Discrimination.
  43. UHB TV segment, October 25, 1999, on Otaru Onsens Discrimination.
  44. Hokkaido Shinbun, September 21, 1999, on Otaru Onsens Discrimination
  45. Asahi Shinbun "Happii Ebetsu" Promo (May 1999) writeup on my "Cultural Sensitivity Workshops" (jpeg here) (writeup in English here) (writeup in Japanese here)
  46. Hokkaido Information University Info Pamphlet, November 1998, describing what kind of a teacher I am (jpeg page one here, page two here)
  47. Appearance as panelist on "Tenshiru Chishiru Hokkaido" TV program, Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation, March 1997, on US and Japan's airline industry (full writeup in English here)
  48. Hokkaido Shinbun Letter to the Editor, January 15, 1995, angry about the Japanese government's ineptitude with Kobe disaster relief. (jpeg here)
  49. Hokkaido Shinbun article, March 14, 1995, on my volunteer efforts down in Kobe. (jpeg here) (writeup in English here)
  50. Hokkaido Shinbun appearance for winning the lottery, June 2, 1994, pg 6 (jpeg and writeup in English here)
  51. Hokkaido Shinbun writeup (August 30, 1993) on bullying in a Japanese company and the book manuscript that I wrote about it (jpeg here).
  52. Hokkaido Shinbun Letter to the Editor (April, 1992) and subsequent article on silly manga which unfairly makes fun of foreigners (jpeg here).


SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND JAPANESE
  1. "Treatment of Japan's International Residents--Problems and Solutions for a 21st-Century Japan" (「『国際住民』に対して、21世紀の日本社会の改善点、あるべき姿とは」)Basic speech handout I usually distribute (and occasionally update) outlining the issues facing an internationalizing Japan. Available in English here and 日本語 here.  Elemental powerpoint presentation on racial discrimination in Japan in English here, in 日本語 here.
  2. "What is a Japanese?  Perspectives from a Naturalized Japanese".  Thurs April 24, 2008, 4:30-6:30PM, Miyazaki International College, Miyazaki, Kyushu.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  3. HANDBOOKcover.jpgHANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Tues April 22, 2008, 7PM-8:30PM, Speech for the Hokkaido Business Association (HIBA), L-Plaza, Sapporo, Powerpoint presentation here.
  4. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Tues April 1, 2008, 6PM-8:30PM, Speech in Fukuoka, Fukuoka General Union, Biotope NPO Office, Komori Bldg near Hakata Station.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  5. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sun March 30, 2008, 2PM-4PM, Speech for JALT Okayama, Sankaku A Bldg 2F near Omotecho, Okayama.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  6. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sat March 29, 2008, 6PM to 8:30PM, Speech for JALT Osaka, Osaka Ekimae Dai-2 Building's Lifelong Learning Center 6F.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  7. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sat March 29, 2008, 1PM-3PM, Speech for JALT Wakayama, Wakayama Int'l Exchange Assoc, Wakayama "Big Ai" Bldg 8F.     Powerpoint presentation here.
  8. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Fri March 28, 2008 Speech for JALT Kobe 5PM-7PM, Kobe International House (Kokusai Kaikan), Chuo-ku, Kobe.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  9. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Thurs March 27, 2008, 1PM to 4PM, Speech at Shiga University on racial discrimination in Japan.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  10. Franca-color.jpgTues March 25, 2008, 7PM FRANCA Speech Osaka Shiritsu Shimin Gakushuu Center 4F.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  11. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sun March 23, 2008 6:30 PM Good Day Books Tokyo Ebisu.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  12. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sat March 22, 2008 10:30AM-Noon with Debito, Kamesei Ryokan, Nagano, Sponsored by 千曲(ちくま)市国際交流協会.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  13. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Fri March 21, 2008, 7PM, An evening with Debito, Kamesei Ryokan, NaganoSee Kamesei Blog announcement here.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  14. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Weds March 19, 2008, 7PM-9PM Amnesty International Tokyo English Network (AITEN) Meeting at Ben's Cafe, Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  15. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Tues March 18, 2008, 2008 6:30-8:30 PM, Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Tokyo BOOK BREAK.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  16. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Mon March 17, 2008 Roppongi Bar Association, Century Court, Roppongi.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  17. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sun March 16, 2008 5PM National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu HQ, Shinbashi, Tokyo.    Powerpoint presentation here.
  18. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS BOOK TOUR, Sat March 15 6PM-8PM, 2008 Sendai FRANCA inaugural meeting, Sendai Fukushi Plaza Meeting Room 2 (10F), by Itsutsubashi subway station)    Powerpoint presentation here.
  19. 聴 いてください〜私たちの声を!!!」2008年1月26日午後1時〜3時30分、浦和駅東口パルコビル内、さいたま市市民生活サポー トセンター。さいたま市国際NGOネットワーク主催。
  20. Panel Discussion:  Implications of Japanese domestic human rights record (for foreign residents and Japanese) on Asian Integration.  "Japan's Internationalization and Asian Regional Cooperation".  Speech with Kawakami Sonoko of Amnesty International Japan, and Waseda University Associate Professor Katsuma Yasushi. January 22, 2008, 5PM to 7PM.  Sponsored by the Waseda University Doctoral Student Network, Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University.  Essay and Powerpoint Presentation here.
  21. "Race and Japan's Judiciary--A Primer".  Speech at the "For Taka and Mana" documentary film fundraiser December 11, 2004, The Pink Cow, Shibuya, Tokyo.  Powerpoint Presentation downloadable here.
  22. 「外国人住民の人権に関する課題と自治体の対応について」2007年12月1日、1PM-3PM、弘前学院大学にて。Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  23. "Pitfalls to avoid in Japanese University Job Searches":  Speeches fo the Job Information Center, JALT 2007 Annual Meeting in Tokyo, Saturday November 24 and Sunday November 25, 2007, 4:10 PM and 9:50 AM respectively. National Olympics Memorial Youth Center.  Powerpoint presentation downloadable from here.  Plus two speeches after each about Immigration's new rules about fingerprinting non-Japanese at the border.
  24. <ともに生きる社会をめざして> 在日外国人ボランティア・ネットワーク主催円卓会議 第2部「新しい生き方を支えるためのシス テムには何が必要か?」14:00〜16:30。Group "NO BORDER" 二回年次回法政大学2007年11月18日。Report in English on the meeting here.  Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  25. "Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?"/"Japan's fingerprinting of non-Japanese at the border", two presentations in one time slot, Peace as a Global Language 2007, October 27, 2007, 3:30-4:20 PM, Kyoto.  Powerpoint presentations here:  Assimilate and Fingerprint.
  26. 「小樽温泉入浴拒否問題と人種差別」、第9回栃木県ヒュマンライツセミナー 2007年10月26日、1PM-4PM、栃木県宇都宮市「パルティ」にて。特定非営利活動法人人権センターとちぎ主宰。(IMADR人権擁護団体の森原秀樹氏と共演)Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  27. "Migration and Integration–Japan in a Comparative Perspective", international forum, Speech in English and Panel Discussion: “Migration and Integration – Voices from the Grassroots”October 24, 2007 2PM-4PM.  Sponsored by the German Institute for Japanese Studies and the Waseda University Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies (GSAPS).  Powerpoint presentation here.
  28. "Japan's new fingerprint laws for Non-Japanese". October 22, 2007, 2:40-4:20 PM, sponsored by the Waseda University Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies (GSAPS), hosted by Doctoral candidate Stephen Nagy.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  29. パネリスト「在日外国人の保健医療—多文化共生時代に求められるもの」第22回日本国際保 健医療学会、2007年10月8日9時30分11時まで 大阪大学コンベンションセンター (吹田キャンパス)にて。長崎県シーボルド大学 李節子教授司会 主催:大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科(中村安秀氏)Powerpoint presentation in Japanese here
  30. 「日本の大学のブラックリストとグリーンリストの経緯と認識論」東京大学社会科学研究所(本郷キャンパス)にて2007年7月 30日午後6:30から9:30まで。東北大、一橋大、東大、名大、文科省など出席。東北大学高等教育開発推進センター主宰。Powerpoint presentation in Japanese herePowerpoint in English here
  31. "Primary and Secondary Education in Japan and the US:  A quick comparison".  Sapporo International University, Professor Jerry Halvorsen's sociology class, July 23, 2007, 1PM-2:30PM
  32. 「日本人が気がつかない『外国人差別』の実態と表現問題」。小学館講演2007年6月26日、午後2時〜4時、小学館本館講演室 にて。小学館法務・考査室主宰。Powerpoint presentation in Japanese here.
  33. "What is a Japanese?"  Two speeches delivered in English with consecutive interpretation on Monday, June 25, 2007, 9:20AM to 10:50AM, and 3:10PM to 4:40PM, at Tokai University.  Hosted by Charles Kowalski and Yuki Takahashi, ESP interpretation classes, International Studies Department, Tokai University.  Text of speech in English here, Powerpoint Presentation here.
  34. "Immigration to Japan Continues, Despite the Disincentives".  Paper on labor abuses towards non-Japanese workers under government-sponsored visa programs.  Presented at the 11th Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Session 14, "The Internationalization of Japan", Saturday, June 23, 2007, 3:30PM-5:30PM, Meiji Gakuin University.  Paper in Word format here, Powerpoint Presentation here.
  35. "Immigration to Japan Continues, Despite the Disincentives".  Talk on labor abuses towards non-Japanese workers under government sponsored visa programs, given to Waseda University's graduate students, Friday, June 22, 2007, 2PM-4PM, Waseda University, hosted by Stephen Nagy, PhD candidate.  Paper in Word format here, Powerpoint Presentation here.
  36. 「小樽温泉入浴拒否問題と人種差別」、2007年6月16日、9AM-12PM、北海道法学部、芝池弁護士の大学院生の授業に て。Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  37. 「小樽温泉入浴拒否問題と人種差別」、2007年5月21日、3PM-5PM、「三菱人権啓発連絡会 宿泊研修会」、三菱重工 (株)伊豆高原クラブ(静岡県伊東市)にて。キリンビール(株)人事部人権担当とそれぞれの一流会社の人権担当主宰。Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  38. "What is 'A Japanese'?"  Lecture on "Issues of Race and Citizenship in the Global Community", Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 11 AM to 12:30 PM, International Christian University, Mitaka, Tokyo.  Sponsored by  ICU's Institute for Educational Research and Service.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  39. "How Japan Systematically Overlooks Issues of its own Diversity", Lecture to International Christian University's Dean William Steele's course on "Advanced Studies in Japan's History".  Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 3:30 to 5:30 PM.  Sponsored by  ICU's Institute for Educational Research and Service.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  40. 「日本における人種差別問題」、国際基督教大学にて.  Lecture sponsored by ICU's Institute for Educational Research and Service, Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 1:15 to 3PM.  Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  41. "Racial Discrimination in Japan", Open Lecture sponsored by International Christian University's Institute for Asian Cultural Studies, Monday, April 23, 2007, 12:30 to 2:30 PM.  Powerpoint presentation here.
  42. "Non-Japanese Residents and the Japanese Legal System--What you can do to help."  Speech to Roppongi Bar Association February 28, 2007, 7:30 to 10 PM, ROI Bldg, Roppongi, Tokyo.  Handout available as a word file here and Powerpoint presentation here.
  43. "What you can do to make the world a better place."  Speech to the New International School, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, February 28, 2007, 2:00-2:45 PM, 1st & 2nd-year Junior High School class.
  44. "2 Channel, Gaijin Hanzai Magazine, and Freedom of Speech." Speech for Amnesty International Group 78, Kanda Koen Kuminkan, Tokyo, February 27, 2007, 7:30 to 10PM. Download handout in Word format here.
  45. "Racial Discrimination in Japan:  Is Anything Changing?"  Luncheon at Foreign Correspondents' Club Japan (FCCJ) with UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene, Noon to 2PM, February 26, 2007.  Download Powerpoint presentation here.  Download press handout in Word format here.
  46. "An Afternoon with Arudou Debito." Speech to JALT Okayama, February 12, 2007, 1-5PM, Sankaku A Bldg 2F, Omotecho, Okayama.  Handout entitled "Ten things you can do to improve your life in Japan" available as a Word file here.
  47. "Racial Discrimination in Japan", Speech to JALT Wakayama, 3-5 PM, February 10, 2007. Powerpoint presentation here.
  48. 「外国人住民の人権に関する課題と自治体の対応について」2007年2月9日、11AM-3PM、和歌山県白浜町白良荘グランド ホテルにて。第21回人権啓発研究集会・第7回和歌山・人権啓発研究集会、(社)部落解放・人権研究所 人権啓発研究集会大阪 主宰 Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  49. 「小樽温泉入浴拒否問題と人種差別」、2007年2月6日、2PM-5PM、奈良県社会福祉総合センターにて。奈良県外国人教育 研究会主宰。Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  50. "Racial Discrimination in Japan", Shiga University guest lecture to Dr. Robert Aspinall's exchange student class, 1-4 PM, February 9, 2007. Powerpoint presentation here.
  51. 「小樽温泉入浴拒否問題と人種差別」、2006年11月20日、日本女子大学にて講演(于保田先生主宰)。Powerpoint presentation はこちらです
  52. "Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan." Poster Session at JALT Kitakyushu, November 4, 2006, 1:15-3:15PM.  Download the Powerpoint presentation here.
  53. "Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan." Talk sponsored by the Japan Colloquium at the University of Washington at Seattle, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Thursday, October 19, 2006, 3:30 to 5PM.  Download the Powerpoint presentation here.
  54. "Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan." Talk sponsored by the Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 12:30 to 2PM.  Download the Powerpoint presentation here.
  55. "Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan." Japan Studies Association of Canada 2006 Conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Saturday, October 14, 2006, 9:30AM.  Download  the Powerpoint presentation here.
  56. "Can Japan Assimilate its Immigrants?" Japan Studies Association of Canada 2006 Conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Friday, October 13, 2006, 2PM.  Download the paper in Word format here, and the Powerpoint presentation here.
  57. "Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan." Public Lecture at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.  Sponsored by the TRU Faculty Association, Human Rights Committee. Thursday, October 12, 2006, 1:30PM.  Download the Powerpoint presentation here.
  58. "On Language and Nationality:  Who owns language?  Perspectives of a naturalized Japanese".  Tokyo University Komaba Campus presentation for Linguapax Asia 2006, Third International Symposium, Saturday, October 7, 2006, 2PM.  Download the paper in Word format here, and the Powerpoint presentation here.
  59. "Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan." Guest Lecture at Temple University in Japan, Tokyo. Thursday, October 5, 2006, 3:30 to 6PM.  Download the Powerpoint presentation here.
  60. "Working at University:  Securing Our Future".  Forum with Louis Carlet of the National Union of General Workers, and Bob Tench of NOVA Union, June 25, 2006, 1PM-5PM, Tokyo Shigoto Center, Iidabashi, Tokyo.  Sponsored by University Teachers Union (UTU).  Handout available here in Word format.
  61. 「外国人の人権基本法、人種差別禁止法を制定しよう」。第6回移住労働者と連帯する全国フォーラム・ 北海道にて第5分科会のなか、「なぜ差別撤廃法が必要か」北星学園大学にて2006年6月24日にプレゼンテーションをした。パワーポイントプレゼンテーションはこちらです
  62. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 30, 2006.  Interlocutors:  Dr Richard Minear and Dr Trent Maxey.  Powerpoint presentation available here.
  63. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Speech at New York University School of Law, Asia Law Society, March 28, 2006.  Interlocutors:  Dr Frank Upham and Mr Jesse Hwang, Society President.  Powerpoint presentation available here.
  64. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Speech at Columbia University School of Law, 12:15-1:00, March 27, 2006.  Interlocutors:  Dr Curtis Millhaupt and Ms Paulette Roberts.  Powerpoint presentation available here.
  65. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Speech at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Japanese Studies, Noon Lecture Series, 12:10-1:00, March 23, 2006.  Interlocutors:  Dr Mark West and Ms Jane Ozanich.  Powerpoint presentation available here.
  66. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Speech at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Language Institute, March 22, 2006.  Interlocutor:  Mr John McLaughlin.  Powerpoint presentation available here.
  67. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Ten classroom speeches for Japanese and Social Studies classes, Kennedy High School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 17, 20, and 21, 2006.  Interlocutor:  Mr Daniel Carolin.  Powerpoint presentation available here.
  68. "'Japanese Only':  The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan"  Speech at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.  March 16, 2006.  Interlocutor:  Dr Steven G. Hall.   Powerpoint presentation available here.
  69. 「日本における外国人差別・人種差別」2006年3月12日(日)、午後6:00〜午後8:30、岡山国際交流センターにて。(チラシはこちらです
  70. 「2ちゃんねる名誉毀損勝訴について」人権と報道連絡会関西主宰、2006年3月4日(土)午後3:00〜午後5:00、関西大 学中之島センターにて。
  71. "Civil Rights in Japan:  An evening with Arudou Debito".  Speech for JALT (Japan's Association for Language Teaching) Osaka, Friday, March 3, 2005, 6:15-8:45 PM, Osaka Ekimae Dai-2 Building's Lifelong Learning Center.  Info site with photos at http://www.osakajalt.org/2006_past_events.html
  72. "Lessons of the McGowan Case:  How to successfully sue in Japan" National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu, Shinbashi Offices, February 24, 2006, 4-6PM.
  73. "Racial Discrimination in Japan", Temple University guest lecture to Dr. Kyle Cleveland's Japanese society class, 5:30-7:00PM, February 23, 2006.
  74. "Racial Discrimination in Japan", Shiga University guest lecture to Dr. Robert Aspinall's exchange student class, 1-3PM, February 20, 2006.
  75. "Media and Activism: One Activist's Point of View" PGL IV Conference Roundtable "Human Rights NGOs and the Media: Allies or Adversaries?" Saturday, November 12, 2005, 1:30 to 3:20 PM, Kyoto Sangyou University. Handout available here.  Article by Tony McNicol on the event at USC's Japan Media Review site (December 2, 2005) here.
  76. "人種差別撤廃の不作為について国賠訴訟" 国賠ネットワークシンポジウム "国賠裁判を通してみる外国人の人権" 2005年10月23日(日)午後1;30〜4:30、渋谷労働福祉会館にて、国賠ネット主宰。 Word doc をダウンロード。「くに弁護団案内サイト」はこちらです。
  77. "What to do if..." , PGL IV Conference Workshop Saturday, November 12, 2005, 11 to 11:50AM, Kyoto Sangyou University. Information site which was the basis of this presentation is available here.
  78. "What IRPS did for me, and what it can do for your future":  Speech at University of California San Diego Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) Alumni Association, Friday, August 26, 2005, 7PM to 9PM, San Diego, California.  Very brief blurb on what went on here.
  79. "Racism in Japan: Why one may be hopeful for the future". Academic paper delivered at Meiji Gakuin University Symposium, "International Studies of Our New Era: Immigrants, Refugees, and Women", held July 17-18, 2005. Text of the paper here.
  80. "A brief history of discrimination towards foreign educators in Japan, Lafcadio Hearn to the Present", Lecture sponsored by National Union of General Workers (NUGW) Nanbu, Tokyo South, 7:30-10PM, July 14, 2005, Shinbashi, Tokyo. Brief on what I said in report here.
  81. Report to UN Rapporteur Doudou Diene concerning Racial Discrimination in Japan, Sponosored by IMADR, July 6, 2005, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. See text of handout and full report on Mr Diene's Japan visit here.
  82. "The Otaru Onsens Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan", Lecture at Temple University Thursday, June 23, 2005, 4:00-6:30 PM
  83. 「小樽温泉問題と国内人種差別」北海道教育大学合宿研修講演(笹谷先生、阿部先生 主宰)2005年5月12日午後6:30〜 9:30、長沼温泉にて
  84. 「多文化共生」PEACE BOAT の地球大学ユニット2の水先案内者 March 17-April 4, 2005. English writeup here. 一般講座:「小樽温泉問題」、「日本でどうやって活動できるのか」、「モンテイゴベイの歴史:奴隷制度のあり方、廃止の仕方」等。洋上の間プレゼンテー ション16回を和英で行いました。
  85. "The Otaru Onsens Case and Activism in Japan", Lecture at Temple University, Tokyo, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 7-9PM.
  86. "The Otaru Onsens Case and Discrimination in Japan", Lecture to exchange students at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
  87. "Advice on activism in Japan" (Handout here) Sponsored by Amnesty International Group 78 Jingumae, Tokyo Wednesday, March 9, 2005: 6:30 PM
  88. Speech and interpetation at the Japanese Parliament House of Councillors with several ministries and Dietmembers present, regarding problematic labor standards for foreign educators.  Sponsored by of UTU/NUGW labor unions, inter alia.  March 8, 2005.  Link to UTU writeup on this event here.
  89. 「滞日外 国人フレームアップ」 概要: 「外国人犯罪」が度々報道され、「史上最多」「対策必要」などと警察庁、小泉内閣、宮内庁も訴えています。しかし、これはある部分「フレームアップ(でっ ちあげ)」です。「外国人犯罪の急増」は大げさか、または捏造と言っても過言ではありません。この講座では、歪められた犯罪統計の報道、そしてその結果と られる「対策」の意図を検証します。サッカー杯札幌開催時の「反フーリガン対策」にも言及します。さっぽろ自由学校「遊」2005年2月18日 (金)午後6:30より
  90. シンポジウム「21世紀を人権の世紀に、日本の真の国際化をもとめて」パネリスト、第5回みえ人権フォーラム、2005年1月 22日(土)午後1:00から4:00、会場:メッセウィング・みえ、IMADR-Mie  主催
  91. 「ジャパニーズ・オンリー:小樽温泉と人種差別問題」2005年1月21日(金)午後5:30から7:00、名古屋大学。名大職 組 情報言語系支部 主催
  92. 「日本から人種差別をなくすために—小樽温泉訴訟の原告として」、青山学院大学の助教授申へぼん先生のゼミ コースのゲストスピー カーとして、当授業で教科書として用いている単行本「ジャパニーズ・オンリー」(明石書店出版)について講演 2004年12月6日、午後1時〜4時
  93. 「国を愛することって何?」(パネリスト)渋谷勤労福祉会館2004年12月4日、午後6:30〜9時、第二回「市民公開口 座」、在日本大韓民国青年会中央本部(民団関連)主催
  94. "FOREIGN CRIME IN JAPAN: More to the issue than meets the eye", JALT