{"id":12460,"date":"2014-06-12T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T01:26:46","slug":"world-cup-2014-held-in-brazil-but-causes-tightened-police-security-in-tokyo-due-to-alleged-possibility-of-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12460","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014: Held in Brazil, but causes tightened police security in Tokyo due to alleged possibility of “vandalism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. As you probably know, the World Cup kicked off today. I found today’s Brazil vs. Croatia match a rather lackluster performance by the favored Brazilian team. \u00a0And for the record, I especially disliked ESPN’s announcer pointing out that the ref, who called the crucial penalty kick on questionable grounds, is a Japanese (insinuating he made the bad call BECAUSE he’s a Japanese), as it’s completely irrelevant. \u00a0Bad form, ESPN.<\/p>\n

But what you probably didn’t know is that back in Japan, the Japanese police are back up to their old tricks of linking foreigners anywhere in the world to domestic crime. Get a load of this:<\/p>\n

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\nPolice to flood Shibuya as Japan kicks off World Cup campaign<\/strong>
\n The Japan Times NATIONAL JUN 11, 2014<\/strong>
\n Comments at the JT at <\/strong>http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2014\/06\/11\/national\/police-flood-shibuya-japan-kicks-world-cup-campaign\/<\/strong>
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\nTokyo police will deploy about 800 officers in the Shibuya area Sunday to control crowds and reduce jams, noise and possible vandalism as Japan faces Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the opening round of soccer\u2019s World Cup.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect considerable congestion with soccer fans, shoppers and tourists,\u201d a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday. \u201cWe will take necessary security measures to ensure a smooth traffic flow, control the congestion and prevent trouble.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Officers will be deployed around the main scramble intersection outside Shibuya Station, as well as in the Hachiko statue square and several adjacent streets where bars and cafes are likely to have the match playing on TVs. There will also be several public viewing spots in the area.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The police presence will last from 10 a.m., when the match kicks off, until 2 p.m., the spokesman said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On an average day, 2.26 million passengers pass through Shibuya Station.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends on the degree of congestion, but officers will direct the crowd of soccer fans not to flock to one area,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The police have no plans yet to cordon off areas or enforce traffic controls, he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The crossing in front of Shibuya Station attracts soccer fans every time Japan plays an international match, leading to rowdy, good-natured revelry.<\/em><\/strong>
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COMMENT<\/strong>: Sooo…. once again we see the bad precedents established by bringing any major international event to\u00a0Japan. \u00a0I’ve written\u00a0before on the bad precedents set by, for example, the G8 Summits (where foreigners anywhere in Japan, even hundreds of miles away in Hokkaido!, are cause for NPA\u00a0crackdowns in the capital<\/a>). \u00a0And also the same with the 2002 World Cup, where the media was whipped into a frenzy over the possible prospect of “hooligans” laying waste to Japan<\/a> and siring unwanted babies from rapes (seriously).<\/a> \u00a0This time, in 2014, the games are thousands of miles away in Brazil. \u00a0But the NPA has\u00a0still gotta crack down! \u00a0Who knows what those Ivory Coasters might get up to! \u00a0The paranoia, bunker mentalities<\/a>, even outright falsification of data in order to justify a more-policed Japan<\/a> are reaching ever more ludicrous degrees. \u00a0How immature this all is<\/a>. \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU Debito<\/p>\n

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JT: Tokyo police will deploy about 800 officers in the Shibuya area Sunday to control crowds and reduce jams, noise and possible vandalism as Japan faces Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the opening round of soccer\u2019s World Cup. \u201cWe expect considerable congestion with soccer fans, shoppers and tourists,\u201d a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday. \u201cWe will take necessary security measures to ensure a smooth traffic flow, control the congestion and prevent trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

COMMENT: Sooo…. once again we see the bad precedents established by bringing any major international event to Japan. I’ve written before on the bad precedents set by, for example, the G8 Summits (where foreigners anywhere in Japan, even hundreds of miles away in Hokkaido!, are cause for NPA crackdowns in the capital). And also the same with the 2002 World Cup, where the media was whipped into a frenzy over the possible prospect of “hooligans” laying waste to Japan and siring unwanted babies from rapes. (seriously). This time, in 2014, the games are thousands of miles away in Brazil. But the NPA has still gotta crack down! The paranoia, bunker mentalities, even outright falsification of data in order to justify a more-policed Japan are reaching ever more ludicrous degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,50,10,13,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-gaiatsu","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","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=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}