{"id":10062,"date":"2012-03-30T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2012-03-31T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T23:50:16","slug":"naha-city-now-requires-jetsaets-to-provide-urine-sample-drug-test-for-contract-renewal-not-required-from-japanese-employees-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10062","title":{"rendered":"Naha City now requires JETs\/AETs and JTEs to provide urine sample (drug test?) for contract renewal (UPDATED: At this writing, probably a false alarm)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(NOTE: \u00a0SEE UPDATE BELOW, with new information that makes this post seem more and more like a false alarm. \u00a0Thanks to everyone who commented with corrections. \u00a0I have made appropriate corrections and strike-outs.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Blog. \u00a0Here’s another example of how NJ are not being trusted. \u00a0Employees under the auspices of the JET Programme in Naha, AET, are being required to provide a urine sample in order to get a job. \u00a0This apparently doesn’t apply to Japanese workers, naturally, as Japanese obviously couldn’t possibly use drugs. \u00a0But foreigners, well, you know the story — they’re powerless guests here on the GOJ’s good graces, so their dignity and equal treatment in the workplace can be overlooked in the name of crime prevention<\/del>. \u00a0We’ve seen this attitude from the police in Tokyo Azabu, who conducted similar “I-Pee” urine tests on NJ exiting bars in Roppongi without a warrant in 2009 just for tits and giggles<\/a>, and because, after all, they’re the Japanese police so sod you. \u00a0Now we see police powers expanding beyond the NPA (as they did when unlawfully deputizing hotels to smoke out illegal aliens back in 2005<\/a>) and into private-sector\/public-sector eikaiwa<\/em>. \u00a0Expect more of the same for whatever reason dreamable up.<\/p>\n

I wonder what JET’s administrative arm, CLAIR, has to say about this. \u00a0I wonder if they even know. \u00a0Feel free to tell them and see if we can get a comment.<\/p>\n

Commenter from submitter XY follows. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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March 23 and 25, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Debito,<\/em>
\nNaha city now requires all AETs to take a urine test. Only the AETs, not the Japanese teachers. I thought I would bring this to your attention, as you are the right one to handle this type of situation. Can you give advice on how to deal with it. As AETs are blocked from forming any type of organization or union to fight against this type of BS. here is the link:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.edu.city.naha.okinawa.jp\/gakkyou\/H24AETnaitei.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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Notice on the second set of requirements where it tells the prospective applicant to turn in health related materials, it includes urine analysis. This is for drug testing, and only applies to AETs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go ahead and put it up. I do wish to remain anonymous as I know this can affect future employment possibilities. Let me give you the full story. A friend of mine recently finished his contract with his current BOE. He had applied to the Naha BOE and another local BOE. When his interview came up he was notified about all the things he had to turn in for possible employment. One of the things he was notified that he had to turn in was a urine analysis. He double checked this, as he has been here some 20+ years, and never heard of a teacher having to turn in this before. This is due to the spat of drug cases that has occurred here on island. Here is the other URL he gave me:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0http:\/\/www.edu.city.naha.okinawa.jp\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway this really irked me when I heard about this and I decided to tell you about it because this is the bs that a lot of private AETs have to put up with.<\/em><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n

UPDATE MARCH 31: \u00a0JTES ALSO REQUIRED TO SUBMIT TO URINALYSIS, SO THIS MEASURE ALSO APPLIES TO JAPANESE AS WELL<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Courtesy of Olaf:<\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/strong>: \u00a0I still don’t think this is what some claim to be a mere “routine physical” (I think, given what I know about J employers’ access to health records<\/a>, it is in fact a drug test, given the prior media shock of JETs and drugs in Okinawa<\/a>), but if it’s applied across the board to Japanese and NJ as well, it’s not really a Debito.org issue. \u00a0Might be an invasion of privacy issue, but not one necessarily of unfairness towards NJ, so that’s better discussed elsewhere. \u00a0So Readers are welcome to continue to comment on this issue below, but unless we receive new information from the original claimant(s), I’m going to have to declare this one a false alarm and offer my apologies. \u00a0Sorry, and thanks to Olaf. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another example of how NJ are not being trusted. Employees under the auspices of the JET Programme in Naha, AET, are being required to provide a urine sample in order to get a job. […] We’ve seen this attitude from the police in Tokyo Azabu, who conducted similar “I-Pee” urine tests on NJ exiting bars in Roppongi without a warrant in 2009 just for tits and giggles, and because, after all, they’re the Japanese police so sod you. Now we see police powers expanding beyond the NPA (as they did when unlawfully deputizing hotels to smoke out illegal aliens back in 2005) and into private-sector\/public-sector eikaiwa. Expect more of the same for whatever reason dreamable up. <\/p>\n

XY: Dear Debito, Naha city now requires all AETs to take a urine test. Only the AETs, not the Japanese teachers. I thought I would bring this to your attention, as you are the right one to handle this type of situation. Can you give advice on how to deal with it? As AETs are blocked from forming any type of organization or union to fight against this type of BS. Here is the link: http:\/\/www.edu.city.naha.okinawa.jp\/gakkyou\/H24AETnaitei.pdf Notice on the second set of requirements where it tells the prospective applicant to turn in health related materials, it includes urine analysis. This is for drug testing, and only applies to AETs…<\/p>\n

UPDATE MARCH 31: EVIDENCE PROVIDED THAT JTES ALSO REQUIRED TO SUBMIT TO URINALYSIS, SO THIS MEASURE ALSO APPLIES TO JAPANESE AS WELL. Conclusion: I still don’t think this is what some claim to be a mere “routine physical” (I think, given what I know about J employers’ access to health records, it is in fact a drug test, given the prior media shock of JETs and drugs in Okinawa), but if it’s applied across the board to Japanese and NJ as well, it’s not really a Debito.org issue. Might be an invasion of privacy issue, but not one necessarily of unfairness towards NJ, so that’s better discussed elsewhere. So Readers are welcome to continue to comment on this issue below, but unless we receive new information from the original claimant(s), I’m going to have to declare this one a false alarm and offer my apologies. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-japanese-government","category-labor-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}