{"id":11568,"date":"2013-06-20T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:14:24","slug":"npa-crime-infrastructure-countermeasures-campaign-also-targets-foreign-crime-anew-justifies-more-anonymous-anti-nj-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11568","title":{"rendered":"NPA “Crime Infrastructure Countermeasures” campaign also targets “foreign crime” anew. Justifies more anonymous anti-NJ signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Last blog entry<\/a> we talked about how the National Police Agency exaggerates and falsifies data to whip up media panic about “foreign crime”<\/a>. \u00a0We’ve also talked for many years on Debito.org about how the NPA has been putting out racist public notices about NJ criminals<\/a>\u00a0(including, in my opinion, assisting the seedier J-media to publish some examples of hate speech<\/a>). \u00a0Well, anonymous postermakers are now getting into the act, what with the NPA’s most recent anti-crime campaign:<\/p>\n

First, check these out (courtesy of Welp):<\/p>\n

\"gizokekkonjune2013\"<\/a>\"gaikokujinhanzaitsuihouJune2013\"<\/p>\n

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The poster at right calls upon Tokyo Immigration Bureau to do something about fake international marriages, claiming they’re “rising rapidly” (kyuuzouchuu<\/em>), and says (with the obligatory plural exclamation points that are characteristic of the alarmist far-right) that we cannot permit illegal foreign labor or overstayers!!<\/p>\n

The poster at left calls for the “expulsion of foreign crime” (!!), with murder, mugging, arson, rape, and theft listed at 25,730 cases! (Again, no comparison with Japanese crime, which is far, far <\/a>higher\u00a0— especially if you look at theft<\/a>.) The bottom boxes are not to me fully legible, but the blue one asks the authorities not to give up in the face of fake applications for visas, Permanent Residency, and naturalizations!<\/p>\n

(I would love to get larger copies of these posters.\u00a0If anyone sees them on the street (take a photo!) or finds them online with greater resolution, please send to debito@debito.org. \u00a0Thanks.)<\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: \u00a0Neither of these posters has a source or an organization listed on them, so anonymous vigilante hate groups are getting into the act.\u00a0I find the first poster in particular unsettling, where brides are portrayed as merely cowls of flags. \u00a0You can’t trust NJ women, because under their pretty faces are lurking nationalisms that are not part of “us”.<\/p>\n

Back to something more professional. \u00a0Again, from Welp:<\/p>\n

\"sonokouihanzaijune2013\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy\u00a0http:\/\/www.police.pref.kanagawa.jp\/images\/h0\/h0001_03.gif<\/a><\/p>\n

This is from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police site (a proud sponsor of the door-to-door neighborhood resident checks<\/a> and forked-tongue friendly cops who produce racist posters<\/a>). It warns people in four languages that what they’re doing is criminal activity, including forgery, “bogus marriage” (wow, the language level is getting better), “false affiliation” (gizou ninchi<\/em>, meaning a J male falsely acknowledges paternity of an NJ child to get that child Japanese citizenship<\/a>), and false adoption (I hope this won’t now target Japan’s Douseiaisha<\/em><\/a>). \u00a0Although not mentioning NJ in specific, the poster’s multilinguality means it’s meant for an international audience (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English, and I think either Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia).<\/p>\n

(Again, I would love a larger graphic so we could read it all: \u00a0Eyes peeled, Debito.org denizens of Kanagawa!)<\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: \u00a0The interesting bit is in the bottom green section, where it talks about the Hanzai Infura [illegible] Taisaku<\/em> (Crime Infrastructure Countermeasures).<\/p>\n

What’s meant by “crime infura”? \u00a0It’s a new enough concept to warrant an explanation from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Site:<\/p>\n

\"hanzaiinfrakanagawakenkeisatsuJune2013\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy\u00a0http:\/\/www.police.pref.kanagawa.jp\/images\/h0\/h0001_04.gif<\/a><\/p>\n

“Infrastructure” is the things and organizations that are the basic foundation of a society, meaning roads, rails, plumbing, etc.<\/p>\n

By “Crime Infrastructure”, this is meant to be the the same thing to undergird crime, such as cellphones under false names, fake websites, false marriages, false adoptions, and false IDs.<\/p>\n

The Ibaraki Prefectural Police have a more elaborate explanation, with helpful illustrations of eight cases. \u00a0Three talk about the shyster groups and internet sites who offer drugs, fake subscriptions, loans and financing schemes, etc. But five of the eight talk about NJ criminal activity, including money laundering through “illegal overstayers”, employers of the same, underground hospitals that engage in illegal medical activities and drug dispensing (!!), underground taxis, false IDs, and false paternity scams to get Japanese citizenship. \u00a0As I said, complete with helpful illustrations (note the absence of hakujin<\/em>, so the illustrator has to play with noses to gaijinize them properly):<\/p>\n

\"hanzaiinfuraibarakijune2013\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy\u00a0http:\/\/www.pref.ibaraki.jp\/kenkei\/a01_safety\/security\/infra.html<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, this “foreign crime infrastructure” meme is not new. \u00a0The first Debito.org heard about it was in 2009<\/a>, when the NPA circulated its regular crime reports: \u00a0NJ crime was down year on year, so they had to find a way to sex up the numbers.<\/p>\n

Hey presto! \u00a0Shift the focus from about foreign criminals as INDIVIDUALS, and towards foreign crime in GROUPS<\/a>: \u00a0 Then we can talk about NJ crooks targeting Japan and spreading their invisible tentacles nationwide. (Never mind the already well-established tentacles of organized crime in Japan, naturally — as Tokyo Governor Ishihara said, NJ crimes are so heinous in comparison that there are some parts of Japan where allegedly Japanese yakuza fear to tread! (Ishihara, Nihon Yo<\/em>, 2002: 100)) \u00a0To raise the fear factor further, we’ll even tell the media that Gaijin groupism means the NPA can’t measure foreign crime statistically! \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

By 2010, this is exactly what happened<\/a>. \u00a0And as of 2013, the NPA is now trying to popularize a new concept (since NJ crime still isn’t cooperating by going up anymore) of a “crime infrastructure”, as if it’s now embedded and endemic, invisible and unmeasurable — because it’s connected to NJ. \u00a0It’s part of the externality of once-peaceful Japan’s contact with the outside world and internationalization.<\/p>\n

This new campaign conveniently occasions those posters made by anonymous vigilantes. Now we have a propaganda infrastructure that normalizes public displays of xenophobia in Japan. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last blog entry we talked about how the National Police Agency exaggerates and falsifies data to whip up media panic about “foreign crime”. We’ve also talked for many years on Debito.org about how the NPA has been putting out racist public notices about NJ criminals (including, in my opinion, assisting the seedier J-media to publish some examples of hate speech). Well, anonymous postermakers are now getting into the act, what with the NPA’s most recent anti-crime campaign:<\/p>\n

The poster at right calls upon Tokyo Immigration Bureau to do something about fake international marriages, claiming they’re “rising rapidly” (kyuuzouchuu), and says (with the obligatory plural exclamation points that are characteristic of the alarmist far-right) that we cannot permit illegal foreign labor or overstayers!!<\/p>\n

The poster at left calls for the expulsion of foreign crime (!!), with murder, mugging, arson, rape, and theft listed at 25,730 cases! (Again, no comparison with Japanese crime, which is far, far higher — especially if you look at theft.) The bottom boxes are not to me fully legible, but the blue one asks the authorities not to give up in the face of fake applications for visas, Permanent Residency, and naturalizations!<\/p>\n

Here’s is a poster from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police site (a proud sponsor of the door-to-door neighborhood resident checks and forked-tongue friendly cops who produce racist posters). It warns people in four languages that what they’re doing is criminal activity, including forgery, “bogus marriage” (wow, the language level is getting better), “false affiliation” (gizou ninchi, meaning a J male falsely acknowledges paternity of an NJ child to get that child Japanese citizenship), and false adoption (I hope this won’t now target Japan’s Douseiaisha). Although not mentioning NJ in specific, the poster’s multilinguality means it’s meant for an international audience (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English, and I think either Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia).<\/p>\n

The interesting bit is in the bottom green section, where it talks about the Hanzai Infura [illegible] Taisaku (Crime Infrastructure Countermeasures). What’s meant by “crime infura”? It’s a new enough concept to warrant an explanation from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Site: “Infrastructure” is the things and organizations that are the basic foundation of a society, meaning roads, rails, plumbing, etc. By “Crime Infrastructure”, this is meant to be the the same thing to undergird crime, such as cellphones under false names, fake websites, false marriages, false adoptions, and false IDs. The Ibaraki Prefectural Police have a more elaborate explanation, with helpful illustrations of eight cases (five of which racialize the issue by pinning it to “foreign crime”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,52,5,10,16,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","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=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}