{"id":12705,"date":"2014-10-01T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T22:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2014-10-01T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T23:59:24","slug":"asahi-editorial-abe-and-his-picks-must-clarify-stance-on-zaitokukai-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12705","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Editorial: PM Abe and his Cabinet picks must clarify stance on Zaitokukai, racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 Continuing with the hate speech theme (and the perpetrators of it in Japan, e.g., Zaitokukai<\/a>), here is an editorial from the Asahi decrying that support of this group (or at least the unwillingness to disavow or take measures against their spreading public hatred of minorities) appears to reside in the highest levels of government.\u00a0 As the person being cited, Yamatani Eriko, is the nation’s top cop in the current PM Abe Cabinet, this information bodes ill for any legal measures or remedies against hate speech in Japan, something the UN recently advised Japan to adopt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BTW, this is the same Yamatani Eriko who spoke out against a memorial against Japan’s wartime sexual slavery in Palisades Park, New Jersey (not the Glendale, California monument<\/a>), including the following “explanation” in two languages on her blog of May 6, 2012 (courtesy of MS), with the requisite denialism:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.yamatani-eriko.com\/<\/wbr>blog\/inf\/inf.cgi?cm=1&mode=<\/wbr>detail&year=2012&no=741<\/a><\/p>\n

Conclusion: \u00a0“Moreover, it cannot be tolerated that Japanese children are bullied and felt sorrowful due to a lie that Japan conducted the abduction of 200,000 girls which is not true at all, and that the lie has been spread throughout the world.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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These are the people who currently lead Japan.\u00a0 Is there any more doubt about the claim of Japan’s right-wing swing<\/a>?\u00a0 Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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EDITORIAL: Abe and his picks must clarify stance on Zaitokukai, racism<\/strong>
\n The Asahi Shinbun, October 01, 2014, Courtesy of MS<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/ajw.asahi.com\/article\/views\/editorial\/AJ201410010040<\/a><\/p>\n

Eriko Yamatani, chairwoman of the National Public Safety Commission, should get it into her head that saying she \u201cdid not know\u201d just doesn\u2019t cut it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It came to light in September that a photograph taken in 2009 shows her with a senior member of a group called Zainichi Tokken wo Yurusanai Shimin no Kai, known more commonly as Zaitokukai, which objects to what it calls \u201cprivileges\u201d given to ethnic Koreans in Japan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yamatani insisted she did not know the man was a Zaitokukai member. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshige Seko said this was a nonissue.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But when Yamatani spoke at the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club of Japan on Sept. 25 on the subject of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents, the questions from the floor were almost entirely about her relationship with Zaitokukai.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n