{"id":12907,"date":"2014-12-21T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12907"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:50:21","slug":"grauniad-police-in-japan-place-anti-korean-extremist-group-zaitokukai-on-watchlist-good-news-if-enforced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12907","title":{"rendered":"Grauniad:  Police in Japan place anti-Korean extremist group Zaitokukai on watchlist; good news, if enforced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBooks, Books, and more from ARUDOU, Debito (click on icon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11452\" title=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guidebookcover.jpg\" alt=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/japaneseonlyebookcovertext-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"japaneseonlyebookcovertext\" 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=\"Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/inappropriate.html\"><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\/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=\"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=12473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FodorsJapan2014cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FodorsJapan2014cover\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<br \/>\n&#8220;LIKE&#8221; US on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate<\/a><br \/>\nIf you like what you read and discuss on Debito.org, please consider helping us stop hackers and defray maintenance costs with a little donation via my webhoster:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/donate.cgi?id=17701\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.newdream.net\/donate4.gif\" alt=\"Donate towards my web hosting bill!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>All donations go towards website costs only. Thanks for your support!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. Some interesting news here. According to the Grauniad (article below), hate group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?s=Zaitokukai\">Zaitokukai<\/a> (which has been part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?s=%22Kill+all+Koreans%22\">group publicly advocating the killing of Japan&#8217;s generational Korean residents<\/a>, the Zainichi) has been placed on a National Police Agency &#8220;watchlist&#8221; as a threat to law and order.<\/p>\n<p>That is good news. \u00a0However, I wonder if it will deter Zaitokukai&#8217;s bullying activities, where they can verbally abuse, knock down, and even punch (watch the video to the end) an old man who counterdemonstrates against them:<\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=916106878400414\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=916106878400414\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toshihiko.kuroda.503\">Toshihiko Kuroda<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Where were the police then? \u00a0(Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9224\">then<\/a>? Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=544\">then<\/a>?\u00a0Or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3714\">then<\/a>?\u00a0Or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fccj.or.jp\/node\/5624\">then<\/a>?\u00a0Or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7067\">then<\/a>?\u00a0Or\u00a0within the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1073548\/\">movie Yasukuni<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>As Debito.org has argued before, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9424\">Japanese police have a soft touch for extreme-rightists, but take a hard line against extreme(?) leftists<\/a>. \u00a0So placing this particular group on a watch list is a good thing. \u00a0As having laws against violence and threats to law and order is a good thing. \u00a0Alas, if those laws are\u00a0not enforced by Japan&#8217;s boys in blue, that makes little difference. \u00a0We will have to wait and see whether we&#8217;ll see a softening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12772\">Zaitokukai&#8217;s rhetoric or Sakurai Makoto&#8217;s bullying activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to the Mainichi Shinbun at the very bottom, local governments (as opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12705\">the foot-dragging PM Abe Cabinet<\/a>) are considering laws against hate speech (well, they&#8217;re passing motions calling for one, anyway). \u00a0That&#8217;s good too, considering that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8459\">not long ago they were actually passing panicky resolutions against allowing Permanent Residents (particularly those same Zainichi) the right to vote in local elections<\/a>. \u00a0Methinks that if the world (e.g., the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12611\">United Nations<\/a>) wasn&#8217;t making an issue of Japan&#8217;s rising hate speech (what with the approaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?s=%22Tokyo+Olympics%22\">2020 Tokyo Olympics<\/a> and all), this would probably not be happening. \u00a0In other words, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?s=counterdemo\">evidence suggests that it&#8217;s less\u00a0an issue of seeing the Zainichi as fellow residents and human beings deserving equal rights, more an issue of Japan avoiding international embarrassment<\/a>. \u00a0I would love to be proven wrong on this, but the former is a much more sustainable push than the latter. \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong> Police in Japan place anti-Korean extremist group Zaitokukai on watchlist<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Ultra-nationalist group, which claims to have 15,000 members, deemed a threat to law and order<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> By Justin McCurry in Tokyo<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The Guardian, Thursday 4 December 2014 10.29 EST<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/04\/police-japan-rightwing-anti-korean-extremist-group-zaitokukai-watchlist\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/04\/police-japan-rightwing-anti-korean-extremist-group-zaitokukai-watchlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Police in Japan have placed a rightwing extremist group on its watchlist for the first time amid growing international pressure to crack down on a rise in hate speech against the country\u2019s Korean community.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In its annual security report published this week, the National Police Agency said Zaitokukai, an ultra-nationalist group that claims it has 15,000 members, should be considered a potential threat to law and order.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Zaitokukai calls for the end to welfare and other \u201cprivileges\u201d afforded to about half a million non-naturalised members of Japan\u2019s ethnic Korean community, including the descendants of labourers brought over from the Korean peninsula to work in mines and factories before and during the second world war.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It frequently holds demonstrations, often in parts of cities such as Tokyo and Osaka with large Korean populations. Its supporters have described ethnic Koreans as \u201ccriminals\u201d and \u201ccockroaches\u201d and called for them to be killed. Police said Zaitokukai and other far-right groups had held more than 100 rallies in the first 10 months of this year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The police agency report \u2013 which usually targets members of Japan\u2019s vast network of yakuza gangs \u2013 warned Zaitokukai was a potential threat to the public due to its \u201cextreme nationalist and xenophobic\u201d ideology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Zaitokukai\u2019s inclusion in the security watch list is unprecedented and comes months after Eriko Yamatani, who as minister for public security is Japan\u2019s most senior police official, failed to publicly condemn the group.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yamatani was invited to distance herself from Zaitokukai this October after a 2009 photograph emerged of her with Shigeo Masuki, then a senior member of the group. She told journalists she did not recall the photograph being taken, adding that it was not appropriate to comment on the policies of individual groups.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cJapan has a long history of placing great value on the idea of harmony and respecting the rights of everyone,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In July, a court in Osaka ruled that a Zaitokukai demonstration held near a school in Kyoto with links to a North Korean residents group amounted to racial discrimination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In October, Osaka\u2019s mayor, Toru Hashimoto, confronted Zaitokukai\u2019s then leader, Makoto Sakurai, during a one-on-one debate, labelling him and his supporters racists who were not welcome in the city. The debate ended after just a few minutes, with both men hurling insults at each other and, at one point, appearing on the verge of physical violence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination has called on Japan to address hate speech and incitement to racist violence during demonstrations, and to punish public officials and politicians who disseminate hate speech. This week South Korea\u2019s national assembly adopted a resolution urging Japan to take similar measures.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<article>\n<div class=\"NewsArticle\">\n<div id=\"ArticleH1Wrap\">\n<h1 class=\"NewsTitle\">\u30d8\u30a4\u30c8\u30b9\u30d4\u30fc\u30c1:\u6cd5\u898f\u5236\u6c42\u3081\u308b\u610f\u898b\u66f8\u3000\u5730\u65b9\u8b70\u4f1a\u7d9a\u3005\u63a1\u629e<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Credit\">\u6bce\u65e5\u65b0\u805e\u30002014\u5e7412\u670820\u65e5\u300015\u664200\u5206<\/p>\n<p class=\"Credit\"><a href=\"\u00a0http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/news\/20141220k0000e040211000c.html\">\u00a0http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/news\/20141220k0000e040211000c.html<\/a>, courtesy of BS.<\/p>\n<div class=\"NewsBody 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Zaitokukai (which has been part of a group publicly advocating the killing of Japan&#8217;s generational Korean residents, the Zainichi) has been placed on a National Police Agency &#8220;watchlist&#8221; as a threat to law and order. That is good news.  However, I wonder if it will deter Zaitokukai&#8217;s bullying activities, where they can verbally abuse, knock down, and even punch (watch the video to the end) an old man who counterdemonstrates against them: Where were the police then?  (Or then? Or then? Or then? Or then? Or then? Or within the movie Yasukuni?)<\/p>\n<p>As Debito.org has argued before, the Japanese police have a soft touch for extreme-rightists, but take a hard line against extreme(?) leftists.  So placing this particular group on a watch list is a good thing.  As having laws against violence and threats to law and order is a good thing.  Alas, if those laws are not enforced by Japan&#8217;s boys in blue, that makes little difference.  We will have to wait and see whether we&#8217;ll see a softening of Zaitokukai&#8217;s rhetoric or Sakurai Makoto&#8217;s bullying activities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to the Mainichi Shinbun at the very bottom, local governments (as opposed to the foot-dragging PM Abe Cabinet) are considering laws against hate speech (well, they&#8217;re passing motions calling for one, anyway).  That&#8217;s good too, considering that not long ago they were actually passing panicky resolutions against allowing Permanent Residents (particularly those same Zainichi) the right to vote in local elections.  Methinks that if the world (e.g., the United Nations) wasn&#8217;t making an issue of Japan&#8217;s rising hate speech (what with the approaching 2020 Tokyo Olympics and all), this would probably not be happening.  In other words, the evidence suggests that it&#8217;s less an issue of seeing the Zainichi as fellow residents and human beings deserving equal rights, more an issue of Japan avoiding international embarrassment.  I would love to be proven wrong on this, but the former is a much more sustainable push than the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,50,35,52,5,4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-gaiatsu","category-good-news","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-japanese-government","category-united-nations","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907","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=12907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}