FOR THE RECORD:
OUR TAX MONIES AT WORK
ADVISING COMMUTERS OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ILLEGAL FOREIGN WORKERS
SHINAGAWA STATION, JUNE 11, 2006
(and this is not the first year this sign has appeared in this station)
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BANNER READS:
"THIS MONTH IS THE POLICY CAMPAIGN AGAINST ILLEGAL FOREIGN LABORERS"
JUNE 1 TO JUNE 30
Sponsored by your friendly Ministry of Justice, Tokyo Immigration Bureau (bottom right hand corner).
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Sign reads "INTERNATIONALIZATION WITH RULES OBEYED"
and is, again, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, Tokyo Immigration Bureau.
(Photos taken by Miki Kaoru June 11, 2006)
These sorts of activities, with government sponsorship, have been
roundly condemned by the United Nations' Special Rapporteur Mr. Doudou
Diene as encouraging racism and xenophobia. More on Diene's 2006 reports and statements about discrimination in Japan here.