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Hi Blog. Got quoted (and some of Debito.org’s “Japanese Only” signs<\/a> posted) in BBC Brasil today (thanks Ewerthon for the link). I’ll paste the article below with\u00a0the Google machine translation in English afterwards. Corrections welcome. \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Jap\u00e3o recebe cr\u00edticas da ONU ap\u00f3s onda de xenofobia nas ruas<\/strong>
\n Ewerthon Tobace<\/strong>
\n De T\u00f3quio para a BBC Brasil<\/strong>
\nCourtesy\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/portuguese\/noticias\/2014\/09\/140908_discriminacao_etnica_japao_et_rm.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Atualizado em 10 de setembro, 2014 – 07:44 (Bras\u00edlia) 10:44 GMT<\/strong>
\n Placa contra estrangeiros no Jap\u00e3o \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Arquivo Pessoal<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Estrangeiros s\u00f3 poder\u00e3o entrar se estiverem acompanhados de um japon\u00eas”, diz a placa<\/em><\/strong>
\n Uma recente onda de casos de xenofobia tem causado grande preocupa\u00e7\u00e3o no Jap\u00e3o e levou a ONU a pedir que o governo do primeiro-ministro Shinzo Abe tomasse medidas concretas para lidar com o problema.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As principais v\u00edtimas nesse incidentes t\u00eam sido comunidades estrangeiras como a de coreanos e chineses, al\u00e9m de outras minorias chamadas de “inimigas do Jap\u00e3o”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Um exemplo dos abusos \u00e9 um v\u00eddeo que se tornou viral e circula pelas redes sociais. Mostra um grupo de homens da extrema-direita com megafones em frente a uma escola sul-coreana em Osaka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eles insultam os alunos e professores com palavr\u00f5es, fazem piadas com a cultura do pa\u00eds vizinho e amea\u00e7am de morte os que se atreverem a sair do pr\u00e9dio.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Um relat\u00f3rio do Comit\u00ea de Direitos Humanos da ONU encaminhado ao governo japon\u00eas, destaca a rea\u00e7\u00e3o passiva dos policiais em manifesta\u00e7\u00f5es deste tipo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As autoridades t\u00eam sido criticadas por apenas observarem, sem tomarem nenhuma atitude efetiva para conter os abusos.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No final de agosto, o Comit\u00ea das Na\u00e7\u00f5es Unidas para a Elimina\u00e7\u00e3o da Discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o Racial solicitou que o pa\u00eds “abordasse com firmeza as manifesta\u00e7\u00f5es de \u00f3dio e racismo, bem como a incita\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 viol\u00eancia racial e \u00f3dio durante manifesta\u00e7\u00f5es p\u00fablicas”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Desde 2013, o Jap\u00e3o registrou mais de 360 casos de manifesta\u00e7\u00f5es e discursos racistas.<\/em><\/strong>
\n A quest\u00e3o ganhou os holofotes da m\u00eddia e est\u00e1 sendo amplamente debatida pelo partido governista, o Liberal Democr\u00e1tico.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Um caso que est\u00e1 sendo visto como teste para a Justi\u00e7a japonesa nesta \u00e1rea \u00e9 a a\u00e7\u00e3o movida, no m\u00eas passado, por uma jornalista sul-coreana, Lee Sinhae, contra Makoto Sakurai, presidente do grupo de extrema-direita Zaitokukai, por danos morais.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ela quer uma indeniza\u00e7\u00e3o depois de ser “humilhada” por textos discriminat\u00f3rios na internet.<\/em><\/strong>
\n “O que me preocupa \u00e9 que muitos destes discursos est\u00e3o deixando o anonimato da internet e j\u00e1 chegaram \u00e0s ruas”, disse Lee em uma coletiva de imprensa.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A jornalista alertou que v\u00e1rias crian\u00e7as est\u00e3o tendo contato com este tipo de pensamento e replicam no ambiente escolar, gerando casos de bullying.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lei<\/em><\/strong>
\n No Jap\u00e3o, n\u00e3o h\u00e1 uma lei que pro\u00edba discursos difamat\u00f3rios ou ofensivos. Para os opositores, banir os discursos de \u00f3dio pode acabar interferindo no direito das pessoas \u00e0 liberdade de express\u00e3o.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mas o pa\u00eds \u00e9 signat\u00e1rio da Conven\u00e7\u00e3o Internacional sobre a Elimina\u00e7\u00e3o de Todas as Formas de Discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o Racial, que entrou em vigor em 1969, e que reconhece express\u00f5es discriminat\u00f3rias como crime.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pela Conven\u00e7\u00e3o, os pa\u00edses seriam obrigados a rejeitar todas as formas de propaganda destinadas a justificar ou promover o \u00f3dio racial e a discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o e tomar a\u00e7\u00f5es legais contra eles.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Segundo as Na\u00e7\u00f5es Unidas, o governo japon\u00eas ainda tem muito para fazer nesta \u00e1rea. O comit\u00ea da ONU insistiu para que o Jap\u00e3o implemente urgentemente “medidas adequadas para rever a sua legisla\u00e7\u00e3o”, em particular o seu c\u00f3digo penal, para regular o discurso de \u00f3dio.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Exclus\u00e3o dos estrangeiros<\/em><\/strong>
\n Para o escritor, ativista e pesquisador norte-americano naturalizado japon\u00eas Arudou Debito, “(essas atitudes discriminat\u00f3rias) t\u00eam se tornado cada vez mais evidentes, organizadas e consideradas ‘normais'”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Debito coleciona, desde 1999, fotos de placas de lojas, bares, restaurantes, karaok\u00eas, muitas delas enviadas por leitores de todo o Jap\u00e3o, com frases em ingl\u00eas – e at\u00e9 em portugu\u00eas – proibindo a entrada de estrangeiros.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A colet\u00e2nea virou livro, intitulado Somente japoneses: o caso das termas de Otaru e discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o racial no Jap\u00e3o.<\/em><\/strong>
\n Debito se diz ainda preocupado que, com a divulga\u00e7\u00e3o cada vez maior dos pensamentos da extrema-direita, a causa ganhe cada vez mais “f\u00e3s”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“No Jap\u00e3o ainda h\u00e1 a cren\u00e7a de que \u00e9 pouco prov\u00e1vel haver o extremismo em uma ‘sociedade t\u00e3o pac\u00edfica'”, explicou.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Eu n\u00e3o acredito que seja t\u00e3o simples assim. Ignorar os problemas de \u00f3dio, intoler\u00e2ncia e exclusivismo para com as minorias esperando que eles simplesmente desapare\u00e7am \u00e9 um pensamento positivo demais e historicamente perigoso.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Placa: “Somente japoneses” \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Arquivo Pessoal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aviso em um hotel de \u00e1guas termais alerta que estrangeiros n\u00e3o podem entrar\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brasileiros<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A comunidade brasileira no Jap\u00e3o tamb\u00e9m \u00e9 alvo constante de atitudes discriminat\u00f3rias. Quarto maior grupo entre os estrangeiros que vivem no pa\u00eds, os brasileiros est\u00e3o constantemente reclamando de abusos gerados por discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o racial e o tema \u00e9 sempre levantado em discuss\u00f5es com autoridades locais.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

O brasileiro Ricardo Yasunori Miyata, 37, \u00e9 um dos que foi \u00e0 Justi\u00e7a depois que o irm\u00e3o foi confundido com um ladr\u00e3o em um supermercado de uma grande rede, na cidade de Hamamatsu, prov\u00edncia de Shizuoka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“O problema foi a abordagem. O seguran\u00e7a chegou gritando, como se ele fosse bandido e, mesmo depois de provado que tudo n\u00e3o passou de um engano, ele (o seguran\u00e7a) justificou que faz parte da \u00edndole do brasileiro roubar e que n\u00e3o poder\u00edamos reclamar pois dever\u00edamos estar acostumado com este tipo de coisa”, contou o rapaz, ainda indignado.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

O caso aconteceu h\u00e1 quatro anos, mas at\u00e9 hoje Ricardo divulga a hist\u00f3ria para que outros n\u00e3o passem pelo mesmo constrangimento pelo qual ele e a fam\u00edlia passaram.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Acionamos a pol\u00edcia, fizemos a reclama\u00e7\u00e3o na matriz da rede, procuramos um advogado e, por semanas, os gerentes do supermercado tentaram nos convencer a n\u00e3o entrar com processo”, lembra.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Depois de tr\u00eas meses, foi feito um acordo. “A rede trocou a empresa que faz a seguran\u00e7a local, pagou todas as despesas com advogados e exigimos ainda que os gerentes pedissem desculpas em p\u00fablico”, contou Ricardo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

H\u00e1 20 anos morando no Jap\u00e3o, o brasileiro lembra que antigamente a situa\u00e7\u00e3o era bem pior. “Quando entrava brasileiro em supermercados, por exemplo, geralmente tocavam uma m\u00fasica brasileira. Era um sinal para avisar os funcion\u00e1rios de que havia estrangeiro na loja”, contou.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ricardo j\u00e1 foi barrado em bares e tamb\u00e9m sofreu todo tipo agress\u00e3o verbal. “Esse tipo de discrimina\u00e7\u00e3o existe, \u00e9 vis\u00edvel e constante. Enquanto as autoridades e a pr\u00f3pria m\u00eddia n\u00e3o tomarem uma posi\u00e7\u00e3o, esses abusos v\u00e3o continuar acontecendo”, destacou.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ENDS. \u00a0MACHINE TRANSLATION FOLLOWS:
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Japan receives criticism from the UN after wave of xenophobia in the streets<\/strong>
\n By Ewerthon Tobace<\/strong>
\n Tokyo for the BBC Brazil<\/strong>
\n Updated on September 10, 2014 – 07:44 (GMT) 10:44 GMT<\/strong>
\n Courtesy https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fportuguese%2Fnoticias%2F2014%2F09%2F140908_discriminacao_etnica_japao_et_rm.shtml&edit-text=<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Plate against foreigners in Japan \/ Credit: Personal Archive<\/em><\/strong>
\n “Foreigners may only enter if accompanied by a Japanese,” says board<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A recent spate of incidents of xenophobia has caused great concern in Japan and led the UN to ask the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to take concrete measures to deal with the problem.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The main victims in this incident have been foreign communities such as Korean and Chinese, and other minorities called “enemy of Japan.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

An example of abuse is a video that went viral and circulates through social networks. Shows a group of men on the extreme right with megaphones in front of a South Korean school in Osaka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

They insult the students and teachers with profanity, make jokes with the culture of the neighboring country and threaten death to those who dare leave the building.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A report of the UN Human Rights Committee referred to the Japanese government, highlights the passive reaction of the police in demonstrations of this kind.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The authorities have been criticized for only observe, without taking any effective action to curb abuses.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In late August, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination requested that the country “firmly approached the manifestations of hatred and racism and incitement to racial hatred and violence during public demonstrations.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 2013, Japan has registered more than 360 cases of racist demonstrations and speeches.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The issue has gained the media spotlight and is being widely debated by the ruling party, the Liberal Democratic.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A case that is being seen as a test for the Japanese Justice in this area is the lawsuit filed last month by a South Korean journalist, Lee Sinhae against Makoto Sakurai, chairman of the far-right Zaitokukai for moral damage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She wants compensation after being “humiliated” by discriminatory texts on the Internet.<\/em><\/strong>
\n “What worries me is that many of these speeches are leaving the anonymity of the internet and has already reached the streets,” Lee said in a press conference.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The journalist warned that several children are having contact with this type of thinking and replicate in the school environment, generating instances of bullying.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Law<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Japan, there is no law prohibiting defamatory or offensive speeches. To opponents, banning hate speech they can interfere in people’s right to freedom of expression.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But the country is a signatory of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which entered into force in 1969, and recognizes that discriminatory expressions as crime.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By the Convention, countries would be forced to reject all forms of propaganda designed to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination and to take legal actions against them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the United Nations, the Japanese government still has much to do in this area. The UN committee insisted that Japan urgently implement “appropriate measures to review its legislation,” particularly its criminal code to regulate hate speech.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Exclusion of foreigners<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For the writer, activist and American-born researcher naturalized Japanese Arudou Debito, “(such discriminatory attitudes) have become increasingly overt, organized, and normalized.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Debito collects, since 1999, pictures of signs of shops, bars, restaurants, karaoke bars, many of them sent in by readers from all over Japan, with English phrases – and even in Portuguese – prohibiting the entry of foreigners.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The collection became a book entitled Japanese Only: The Otaru case of spa and racial discrimination in Japan.<\/em><\/strong> [NB: \u00a0Not quite right, but my clarification\u00a0was ignored by editors.]<\/p>\n

Debito is said still worried that with the increasing dissemination of the thoughts of the extreme right, the cause get more and more “fans”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Japan still has the belief that extremism is less likely to happen in its ‘peaceful society'”,” he explained.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I do not think it’s that simple. Ignoring the problems of hatred, intolerance and exclusivism towards minorities hoping they simply disappear too is a positive and historically dangerous thought.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Board: “Japanese Only” \/ Credit: Personal Archive<\/em><\/strong>
\n Notice in a hotel hot springs warning that foreigners can not enter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brazilians<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Brazilian community in Japan is also a constant target of discriminatory attitudes. Fourth largest group among the foreigners living in the country, Brazilians are constantly complaining of abuses generated by racial discrimination and the issue is always raised in discussions with local authorities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Brazilian Ricardo Yasunori Miyata, 37, is one of those who went to court after brother was mistaken for a thief in a supermarket of a large network in the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The problem was the approach.’s Security came screaming, like he was crook and even after proven that it was all a mistake, he (the security guard) explained that part of the character of the Brazilian steal and we could not complain because we should be accustomed to this kind of thing, “said the boy, still indignant.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The case happened four years ago, but until today Ricardo discloses the story so that others do not go through the same embarrassment in which he and his family went through.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Switch-police, made the claim in the network matrix, seek a lawyer, and for weeks, supermarket managers tried to convince us not to enter the process,” he recalls.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After three months, an agreement was made. “The network changed the company that makes local security, paid all the expenses of attorneys and even demand that managers asked apology in public,” said Ricardo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

20 years living in Japan, Brazil recalls that once the situation was much worse. “When I came in Brazilian supermarkets, for example, one usually played Brazilian music. Was a sign to warn employees that the store was abroad,” he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ricardo has been barred in all bars and also suffered verbal aggression type. “This kind of discrimination exists, is visible and constant. Whilst the authorities and the media itself has not taken a position, these abuses will continue happening,” he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got quoted (and some of Debito.org’s “Japanese Only” signs posted) in BBC Brasil today (thanks Ewerthon for the link). I’ll paste the article below with the Google machine translation in English afterwards. Corrections welcome.<\/p>\n

Machine translated excerpt: “A report of the UN Human Rights Committee referred to the Japanese government, highlights the passive reaction of the police in demonstrations of this kind. The authorities have been criticized for only observe, without taking any effective action to curb abuses.<\/p>\n

In late August, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination requested that the country “firmly approached the manifestations of hatred and racism and incitement to racial hatred and violence during public demonstrations.” Since 2013, Japan has registered more than 360 cases of racist demonstrations and speeches.[…]<\/p>\n

For the writer, activist and American-born researcher naturalized Japanese Arudou Debito, “(such discriminatory attitudes) have become increasingly overt, organized, and normalized.”<\/p>\n

Debito collects, since 1999, pictures of signs of shops, bars, restaurants, karaoke bars, many of them sent in by readers from all over Japan, with English phrases – and even in Portuguese – prohibiting the entry of foreigners. The collection became a book entitled Japanese Only: The Otaru case of spa and racial discrimination in Japan. [NB: Not quite right, but my clarification was ignored by editors.]<\/p>\n

Debito is said still worried that with the increasing dissemination of the thoughts of the extreme right, the cause get more and more “fans”.”Japan still has the belief that extremism is less likely to happen in its ‘peaceful society'”,” he explained. “I do not think it’s that simple. Ignoring the problems of hatred, intolerance and exclusivism towards minorities hoping they simply disappear too is a positive and historically dangerous thought.” <\/p>\n

The Brazilian community in Japan is also a constant target of discriminatory attitudes. Fourth largest group among the foreigners living in the country, Brazilians are constantly complaining of abuses generated by racial discrimination and the issue is always raised in discussions with local authorities…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18,34,52,5,4,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-academia","category-exclusionism","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-japanese-government","category-lawsuits","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658","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=12658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}