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Hi Blog. An editorial I wrote quickly for Trans Pacific Radio was put up two days ago. Have a read. Excerpt follows. Debito in Sapporo
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Arudou Debito: Rumble at the Ministry of [Foreign Affairs]
Filed under: Shasetsu – Op/Ed
Posted by Debito Arudou at 3:44 pm on Monday, September 10, 2007
Courtesy http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/10/debito-rumble-at-moj/
(Editor’s note: Debito wrote this piece, and even recorded it, quite some time ago. Unfortunately, for reasons we can’t quite fathom, the audio file has. . . well. . . apparently disappeared. This is the text of his Shasetsu, a bit late. We apologize for the tardiness of the publication, for the missing audio, and for dropping the ball on this one in general. Nevertheless, it’s a well-done piece, well worth reading and discussing and we hope you enjoy it.
The second part of Arudou Debito’s appearance on TPR Spotlight (part one is here) will be up before you can say “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.”)
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RUMBLE AT THE MINISTRY OF [FOREIGN AFFAIRS]
A hearing on human rights is disrupted by right-wingers
In 1995, Japan signed the United Nations Convention against all forms of Racial Discrimination. By doing so, it promised “without delay” to take all measures, including legislation, to eliminate racial discrimination within its borders. However, more than a decade later, Japan still has not passed any laws against discrimination by race. And as the spread of “Japanese Only” signs and rules nationwide attests, laws are sorely needed.
So is the urge to come clean. Under this treaty, the Japanese government must submit a report every two years on what it is doing to eliminate racial discrimination. It is mighty late, filing its first report, due in 1998, in 2001. And it has filed no reports since then.
In preparation for the next report, and to avoid charges that the bureaucrats were not listening to the public, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has held open hearings, attended over the years by NGOs and “concerned citizens”. The latest meeting took place yesterday afternoon, August 31, and I attended. It was, in a word, a disaster…
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Rest at http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/10/debito-rumble-at-moj/
ENDS
1 comment on “TPR editorial on SNAFU at MOFA: Uyoku disrupt human rights meeting”
Is that like a government holding a meeting to discuss implementing multiculturalism and then inviting a KKK member with a criminal background known for disrupting such meetings? Whatever. MOFA is just plain ridiculous; nonsense like this can only happen in Japan, kingdom of the 12 year old ostriches.
–I’M NOT SURE THE MOFA “INVITED” HIM, PER SE. JUST DIDN’T REFUSE HIS APPLICATION. THE GUY IS APPARENTLY QUITE WELL KNOWN IN THE UYOKU CIRCLES, SO I DOUBT THE MANDARINS WERE COMPLETELY SURPRISED BY EITHER HIS APPEARANCE OR THE RESULTS. DEBITO