{"id":10619,"date":"2012-09-29T04:39:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10619"},"modified":"2012-09-29T04:39:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:39:45","slug":"mainichi-japans-only-human-rights-museum-likely-closing-after-osaka-gov-hashimoto-defunds-says-doesnt-teach-japans-hopes-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10619","title":{"rendered":"Mainichi: Japan&#8217;s only human rights museum likely closing after Osaka Gov Hashimoto defunds, says doesn&#8217;t teach Japan&#8217;s &#8220;hopes &#038; dreams&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books etc. by ARUDOU Debito (click on icon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8577\" title=\"inappropriatecoverthumb150x226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot; width=\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?cat=32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4921\" title=\"debitopodcastthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/debitopodcastthumb.jpg\" alt=\"debitopodcastthumb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10142\" title=\"Fodors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fodors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0Here&#8217;s something quite indicative about the conservatives in Japan. \u00a0As I will be alluding to in my next Japan Times column (due out October 2), there is an emphasis on making sure &#8220;hopes and dreams&#8221; are part of Japan&#8217;s future. \u00a0Fine, but for Japan&#8217;s conservatives, fostering &#8220;hopes and dreams&#8221; means obliterating things like the shameful bits of Japan&#8217;s past (which every country, doing an honest accounting of history, has).<\/p>\n<p>For Osaka Mayor Hashimoto (who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nn20120909a1.html\">just launched his ominously-named &#8220;Japan Restoration Party&#8221;<\/a>), that means killing off Japan&#8217;s only human-rights museum (which, when I visited, had a corner devoted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/otarulawsuit.html\">Otaru Onsens Case<\/a>). \u00a0Because talking about how minorities in Japan combat discrimination against them is just too disruptive of Japan&#8217;s &#8220;dreamy&#8221; national narrative. \u00a0Read on. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out With Human Rights, In With Government-Authored History: The Comfort Women and the Hashimoto Prescription for a \u2018New Japan\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Tessa Morris-Suzuki<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Recommended citation: Tessa Morris-Suzuki, &#8220;Out With Human Rights, In With Government-Authored History: The Comfort Women and the Hashimoto Prescription for a \u2018New Japan,\u2019&#8221; The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 36, No. 1, September 3, 2012.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hopes and Dreams<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> They exist all over Japan, like tiny sparks of light, flickering and fragile, but somehow surviving against the odds: the peace museums, the reconciliation groups, the local history movements that work to address problems of historical responsibility neglected or denied by national politicians. As Kazuyo Yamane notes, according to a UN survey, Japan has the highest number of peace museums of any country in the world (Yamane 2009, xii). But the heritage created at the grassroots by ordinary Japanese people is constantly under threat from the hostility of nationalist politicians and sections of the media: and never more so than today (see Chan 2008; Morris-Suzuki, Low, Petrov and Tsu 2012).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Among the sparks of light is Osaka\u2019s Human Rights Museum, also known as Liberty Osaka.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Founded in 1985, Liberty Osaka is Japan\u2019s only human rights museum. It features displays on the history of hisabetsu buraku communities (groups subject to social discrimination), the struggle for women\u2019s rights, and the stories of minority groups such as the indigenous Ainu community and the Korean minority in Japan. An important aspect of the museum is its depiction of these groups, not as helpless victims of discrimination, but rather as active subjects who have fought against discrimination, overcome adversity and helped to create a fairer and better Japanese society. By 2005 more than a million people had visited the Liberty Osaka. (See the museum\u2019s website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty.or.jp\/index.html\">Japanese<\/a>) and (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberty.or.jp\/topfile\/human-top.htm\">English<\/a>).)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Today, the museum faces the threat of closure. The Osaka city government has until now provided a crucial part of themuseum&#8217;s funding, but the current city government, headed by mayor Hashimoto T\u014dru, has decided to halt this funding from next year, on the grounds that the museum displays are \u2018limited to discrimination and human rights\u2019 and fail to present children with an image of the future full of \u2018hopes and dreams\u2019 (Mainichi Shinbun 25 July 2012)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em>Rest of the article at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/-Tessa-Morris_Suzuki\/3818\">http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/-Tessa-Morris_Suzuki\/3818<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A message to that effect from Liberty Osaka, then the Mainichi Shimbun articles being referred to, follow for the record:<\/p>\n<p>===========================<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 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As I will be alluding to in my next Japan Times column (due out October 2), there is an emphasis on making sure &#8220;hopes and dreams&#8221; are part of Japan&#8217;s future.  Fine, but for Japan&#8217;s conservatives, fostering &#8220;hopes and dreams&#8221; means obliterating things like the shameful bits of Japan&#8217;s past (which every country, doing an honest accounting of history, has).  For Osaka Mayor Hashimoto (who just launched his ominously-named &#8220;Japan Restoration Party&#8221;), that means killing off Japan&#8217;s only human-rights museum (which, when I visited, had a corner devoted to the Otaru Onsens Case).  Because talking about how minorities in Japan combat discrimination against them is just too disruptive of Japan&#8217;s &#8220;dreamy&#8221; national narrative:<\/p>\n<p>Morris-Suzuki:  Founded in 1985, Liberty Osaka is Japan\u2019s only human rights museum. It features displays on the history of hisabetsu buraku communities (groups subject to social discrimination), the struggle for women\u2019s rights, and the stories of minority groups such as the indigenous Ainu community and the Korean minority in Japan. An important aspect of the museum is its depiction of these groups, not as helpless victims of discrimination, but rather as active subjects who have fought against discrimination, overcome adversity and helped to create a fairer and better Japanese society. By 2005 more than a million people had visited the Liberty Osaka. (See the museum\u2019s website (Japanese) and (English).)<\/p>\n<p>Today, the museum faces the threat of closure. 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