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Happy New Year, Blog.  As a smaller post to start off 2010, let me ask readers what they think the most important NJ human rights events (I won’t say “advances”, as I consider 2009 to be pretty mixed) were last year?  I’ve put them as a blog poll on the right so you can vote (choose three), but below are the ones that come to my mind, in no particular order (if you think I’ve missed any, Comments Section).

I’ll be ranking them myself in my next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column out January 5, so have a read!  Thanks for reading and supporting Debito.org, everyone.  Arudou Debito in Sapporo

1. The Nikkei “Repatriation Bribe”
2. The election of the DPJ and concomitant hopes
3. The Savoie Child Abduction Case
4. The forthcoming IC Chips in Gaijin Cards
5. “Newcomer” Permanent Residents outnumbering “Oldcomer” Zainichi PRs
6. The Calderon Noriko Case
7. Police arresting a 74-yr-old US tourist for carrying a pocket knife
8. Ichihashi Tatsuya’s arrest for the Hawker Murder
9. “The Cove” documentary exposing Wakayama dolphin slaughters
10. NJ also to be listed on Juuminhyou Residency Certificates
11. McDonald’s Japan’s gaijin shill “Mr James”
12. Sakanaka’s proposals for an Immigration Ministry et al
13. NOVA boss Saruhashi getting 3.5 years for embezzlement
14. Roppongi police street testing NJ urine for drugs
15. Sakai Noriko pinning her drug issues on NJ dealers
16. Pothead Sumo wrestlers
17. Something else
18. Don’t know / Can’t say / Don’t care etc.

ENDS