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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JULY 5, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Table of Contents:<\/em><\/strong>
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ACTIVISM AND ITS TRIBULATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) \u201cThe problem I have with David Aldwinkle [sic] is\u2026\u201d A stock criticism of me and my methods, then my answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Film record of Debito in action negotiating with a \u201cJapanese Only\u201d establishment in Shinjuku: excerpt from documentary \u201cSour Strawberries\u201d (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Tangent: How anti-discrimination measures are enforced elsewhere: Racism towards me at a bank in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) Honolulu Weekly Feb 9 1994: \u201cPrints of Darkness\u201d: Ronald Fujiyoshi, Hawaiian fighter of GOJ fingerprinting of NJ, 20 years ago says prescient things about future Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTERESTING TIDINGS IN OFFICIALDOM<\/strong><\/p>\n

5) AOL News: J-League soccer ref speaks English to, then denigrates Japanese-German player, denies anything discriminatory. But then official protests from club!<\/strong><\/p>\n

6) Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus extended interview with Dr. M.G. Sheftall: \u201cJapan\u2019s Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

7) Tangent: Indo-Pacific Review article: \u201cA Rope Bridge in a Fiber-Optic Age: The East-West Center in Hawaii\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

8 ) Looking for substantiation of change in editorial bent at Japan Today etc. after acquisition by right-wing Fuji Media Holdings<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026 and finally\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 88: \u201cU.S. green-lights Japan\u2019s march back to militarism\u201d, on America\u2019s historical amnesia in US-Japan Relations, June 1, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Dr. ARUDOU, Debito (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org, Twitter @arudoudebito)
\nFreely Forwardable<\/p>\n

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ACTIVISM AND ITS TRIBULATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) \u201cThe problem I have with David Aldwinkle [sic] is\u2026\u201d A stock criticism of me and my methods, then my answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 6, 2014, by \u201cBilly\u201d (name changed): The problem I always have with David Aldwinkle [sic] comes in his suggestion at the end. Asking people to start harassing the restaurant owner with phone calls? Way to reinforce the \u8ff7\u60d1 stereotype of foreigners that this restaurant owner already has. Aldwinkle often seems to want to head up some kind of gaijin mafia hit squad that goes around naming, shaming, hounding, and publicly humiliating anyone suspected of mistreating foreigners in Japan. It\u2019s ugly mob tactics, and it makes him look just as ugly, if not uglier, than the people with the \u201cJapanese Only\u201d signs. In many cases, Aldwinkle\u2019s attitude and tactics earn some sympathy for those signs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Aldwinkle\u2019s crude approach especially comes to light in the fifth comment on that blog post. Someone suggests a sensible, conciliatory approach with the restaurant owner, offering to translate menus for him and to resolve other problems. Aldwinkle won\u2019t let this comment go up on his blog without attaching to it a snarky, bolded response that aims to humiliate the comment\u2019s author. Maybe Aldwinkle [sic] would be proven right in the end that this restaurant owner wouldn\u2019t budge, but Aldwinkle isn\u2019t particularly interested in finding out. His first pass in these situations is to accuse and attack, immediately putting anyone in his path on the defensive. He tosses hand grenades in situations where gentle words might have more effect.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arudou Debito\u2026the guy who took Japanese citizenship so that he could try to force Japanese people to behave more like Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is a common criticism leveled against me. Since the author has a doctorate (in English), I decided to take him up on his claims and show the shortcomings in his social science and research methods in an informative exchange.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12274<\/a><\/p>\n

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2) Film record of Debito in action negotiating with a \u201cJapanese Only\u201d establishment in Shinjuku: excerpt from documentary \u201cSour Strawberries\u201d (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a follow-up to the previous blog entry, where I cited somebody who (ironically) accused me of dealing with people by \u201claunch[ing] immediately into angry, confrontational accusations\u201d, here\u2019s an actual movie record of me in action.<\/p>\n

This is part of a documentary by Daniel Kremers and Tilman Koenig named \u201cSour Strawberries: Japan\u2019s Hidden Guest Workers\u201d (2009), talking about how Japan\u2019s NJ, as a labor force and a resident population, are being treated in Japanese society. It is an excellent film that touches upon many important subjects, and it can be previewed and purchased here.<\/p>\n

I appear for about five minutes within negotiating with a \u201cJapanese Only\u201d establishment, one of the dozens upon dozens I have talked with over the years, to confirm the facts of each case (recorded for posterity at the Rogues\u2019 Gallery of Exclusionary Establishments) and investigate the firmness of the exclusionary policy. See it for yourself:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13365<\/a><\/p>\n

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3) Tangent: How anti-discrimination measures are enforced elsewhere: Racism towards me at a bank in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got an interesting story to tell: Recently I had business at a Canadian bank, so I went to a branch of it within Canada. My transaction required me to show government ID, so I showed my Japanese passport, of course. That\u2019s all I have.<\/p>\n

The teller verified my ID, but then made the comment, \u201cIt\u2019s funny that you should have a Japanese passport. You don\u2019t look Japanese.\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cLet\u2019s not go there. Lose the racism and complete the transaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, after the transaction was complete, I called for his manager, and\u2026<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13381<\/a><\/p>\n

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4) Honolulu Weekly Feb 9 1994: \u201cPrints of Darkness\u201d: Ronald Fujiyoshi, Hawaiian fighter of GOJ fingerprinting of NJ, 20 years ago says prescient things about future Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honolulu Weekly: When civil-rights activist\/missionary Ronald Fujiyoshi refused to be fingerprinted in compliance with Japan\u2019s Alien Registration Law in 1981, he launched a personal attack on the Japanese government which still hasn\u2019t ended. [\u2026] After waging his own personal battle against the Japanese government for the greater part of the last two decades, [Ronald Fujiyoshi,] the 53-year-old Hilo resident is hopeful that the recent change in government is a sign that the Japanese people have at last begun to fight back against what he contends is a sinister system which has been unjustly subjugating them for centuries.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fujiyoshi\u2019s personal beef is Japan\u2019s latent racism, which he maintains is knowingly cultivated by the country\u2019s ruling circles in order to foster an \u201cus vs. them\u201d mentality. Japan\u2019s alien-registration laws are widely known to be among the most rigid and strictly enforced in the world. It has long been a complaint among non-Japanese immigrants in Japan that the laws are also part of a greater government scheme to prevent them from feeling completely at ease in their adopted homeland, withhold full citizenship rights and relegate them to positions of permanent underclass status in the overall economic tapestry of the nation. Especially onerous to Fujiyoshi was the Japanese government\u2019s longstanding policy of insisting that all foreign residents and criminal suspects in Japan submit fingerprints for identification purposes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Being grouped with criminals and thus treated as undesirables created acute resentment in the Korean-Japanese community, over 700,000 strong and representing roughly four out of five of Japan\u2019s foreign residents. Many of them have lived in Japan for several generations; their relatives were originally brought there forcibly during World War II as military conscripts or factory workers. They are still treated as outsiders, and their \u201calien\u201d status frequently denies them jobs, housing and scholarships. Fujiyoshi contends that the fingerprint policy is both unconstitutional by Japan\u2019s own admitted standards and an abhorrent violation of the United Nations International Covenant of Human Rights, to which Japan is a signatory. [\u2026]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For Fujiyoshi, state-sanctioned racism is bad enough, but even more repugnant is the denial of its existence by most Japanese. He maintains that the power structure, for its own purposes, is using its tremendous control over the media (and consequent influence on public opinion) to perpetuate the traditional notion that there are only three major races in the world. \u201cAccording to this view, all there are are Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid stocks,\u201d says Fujiyoshi, recounting the argument he has heard more times than he cares to remember. This belief is worse than oversimplistic: It makes it possible for the Japanese government to exclude from the category of racial discrimination its dealings with other Asian and Pacific peoples living in the country. Japan can safely perceive itself as a country of only one race and sincerely believe that the racial conflicts plaguing the rest of the world can\u2019t happen there.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13216<\/a><\/p>\n

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INTERESTING TIDINGS IN OFFICIALDOM<\/strong><\/p>\n

5) AOL News: J-League soccer ref speaks English to, then denigrates Japanese-German player, denies anything discriminatory. But then official protests from club!<\/strong><\/p>\n

AOL News: In the June 6 J2 match between teams Avispa Fukuoka and Tokushima Vortis, it has come to light in a club statement that will be filed with the J-League that Referee Takayama Hiroyoshi used discriminatory language against Fukuoka player Sakai Noriyoshi.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sakai Noriyoshi is the younger brother of Japan soccer representative Sakai Goutoku, who is half-Japanese, half-German. In the 35th minute of the second half during a foul, Referee Takayama asked in English \u201cAre you OK?\u201d, to which Sakai answered in Japanese, \u201cDaijoubu desu\u201d. Takayama then apparently said, \u201cWhat the\u2026 you [using omae, a masculine, informal, often disparaging or belligerent way to say \u201cyou\u201d], you can speak Japanese after all.\u201d To which the bystanding players protested. At that time Referee Takayama promised that he would apologize after the game, but no apologies were forthcoming. The club protested to the commissioner, but during investigations Takayama denied that there was any discriminatory statement made.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: When you read the whole article, you\u2019ll see that several positive precedents are being set here, sorely needed in Japan\u2019s sports milieu where racialization of athletes is quite normal. Bravo to the bystanding players, the club, the fans and even the reporter for not letting this migroaggression stand unchallenged.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13354<\/a><\/p>\n

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6) Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus extended interview with Dr. M.G. Sheftall: \u201cJapan\u2019s Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now up with critique from an unexpected quarter is an extended interview I did with Dr. M.G. \u201cBucky\u201d Sheftall on the WWII Japan Tokk\u014d \u201cKamikaze\u201d suicide missions, which appeared in an abridged version in the Japan Times as my JBC column on May 4 2015. This longer version features more questions from me and more candor from Bucky. Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu: an interview with M.G. Sheftall<\/strong>
\n The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 22, No. 1, June 08, 2015<\/strong>
\n Dr. ARUDOU Debito, Dr. M.G. Sheftall<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) You mentioned earlier about other Tokk\u014d missions, including the suicide motorboats. But we hear mostly about the pilots, hardly ever about the other types of Tokk\u014d. Tell us a little more about these other branches, and why you think the pilots have garnered all the attention, especially in popular culture and at Yasukuni Shrine, where they are more famously enshrined as heroes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sheftall: In addition to the iconic self-immolating bomb-laden fighter plane version of Tokk\u014d almost anyone inside or outside of Japan associates with the term \u201cKamikaze\u201d, there were three other major Tokk\u014d platforms that we could deem significant in terms of: 1) the expenditure involved in their development and production; 2) the initial expectations the Japanese military had for their success; and 3) the loss in human lives caused by their deployment. These were the Kaiten (\u201cFortune-reverser\u201d) manned torpedo, the Shin\u2019y\u014d (\u201cOcean-shaker\u201d) rammer-motorboat, and the \u014cka (\u201cCherry Blossom\u201d) manned rocket bomb \u2013 which was essentially a 1940s cruise missile with a human being in place of a computerized guidance and target acquisition system. Really brutal contraption.<\/em><\/p>\n

In any case, all three of these platforms were bitter disappointments for the Japanese military. Each of them resulted in over a thousand \u201cfriendly\u201d fatalities involved in attempts to deploy them \u2013 this is also counting the crew members of the \u201cmotherships\u201d ferrying the Kaiten and \u014cka (specially modified fleet submarines for the former, and specially modified twin-engined bombers for the latter) into battle \u2013 while only causing a few hundred Allied casualties in total between the three of them, as compared with \u201cconventional\u201d aviation Tokk\u014d, which caused some 15 thousand Allied casualties just in the Battle of Okinawa alone. So, right off the bat I would say that this dismal operational history is certainly a sizable factor behind the rather low profile \u2013 and the poor reputation, when known at all \u2013 of these specialized Tokk\u014d weapons in the postwar Japanese public imagination.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13349<\/a><\/p>\n

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7) Tangent: Indo-Pacific Review article: \u201cA Rope Bridge in a Fiber-Optic Age: The East-West Center in Hawaii\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

IPR: The East-West Center in Hawaii is timid, insular, and lacking in fresh, dynamic thinking about a region that has outpaced the institution as a whole.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The East-West Center (EWC) in Hawaii is well-positioned geographically and conceptually to be a powerhouse of constructive, intellectual engagement with Indo-Pacific Asia. A 50-year legacy of providing academic and research fellowships to young students from Asia has developed a deep regional network of alumni now in senior government positions, multilateral organizations, and the private sector. Over the years, hundreds of experts in governance, policy, science, and history have resided in or served as visiting scholars at the institution. Its spacious facilities, some designed by a world-class architect, are immersed within a beautiful, serene campus setting. And yet this venerable soft-power institution has become flaccid. [\u2026]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The EWC president, Dr. Charles Morrison, has been in place for 16 years. During this period he is widely credited with keeping the non-profit Center from being shuttered (this instinct for survival applies to his own job, as he was once dismissed, but then returned to his position as president). Most recently he helped the institution weather the very public resignation of EWC\u2019s entire energy team led by Dr. Fesharaki, which revealed the \u201cturmoil\u201d inside the Center. However, simple survival should never be the measure of institutional success. With a purported deadline of 2018 to achieve self-sufficiency, transformative change is required for the EWC to evolve from prolonged survival thinking to a thriving institution renowned for being a vanguard of engagement on critical issues.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 1960 through the vision of the late Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, the EWC\u2019s mission to promote \u201cbetter relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue\u201d is of paramount importance. While a 1978 GAO report demonstrates that concerns about the EWC\u2019s identity and quality of contributions were emerging in its early decades, the Obama administration\u2019s \u201crebalance to Asia\u201d is the sort of golden opportunity for which the EWC was designed. However, senior fellows are unable to articulate what the EWC\u2019s role is in the rebalance effort. According to them, Dr. Morrison has never stated how the EWC mission fits in the rebalance. One expert said \u201cmore of the same I would assume,\u201d while another questioned the relevance of the EWC now that flights no longer need to stop in Hawaii when crossing the Pacific. A striking statement considering that Pacific Command, the nation\u2019s largest strategic command and most visible face of the \u201crebalance,\u201d sits only a few miles away.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12543<\/a><\/p>\n

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8 ) Looking for substantiation of change in editorial bent at Japan Today etc. after acquisition by right-wing Fuji Media Holdings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the recent acquisition of GPlus Media by right-wing media conglomerate Fuji Media Holdings, I\u2019ve been hearing murmurs about changes in editorial policy over at Japan Today (and Gaijin Pot) of deletion of comments that are critical of the Japanese government etc.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s try to go beyond murmur. I have a reporter who would like some substantiation for an article. Has anyone saved copies of their critical comments that were deleted? Or if you comment there from now (keep your comments sane, please), could you keep an eye on it? (Screen captures would be nice.) Please let Debito.org know. Thanks.<\/p>\n

UPDATE JUNE 29, 2015:<\/strong> Proof of Fuji Media Holdings\u2019 editorial bent: Fuji TV apologizes for subtitles fabricating quotes from South Koreans as \u201chating Japan\u201d:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13376<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2026 and finally\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 88: \u201cU.S. green-lights Japan\u2019s march back to militarism\u201d, on America\u2019s historical amnesia in US-Japan Relations, June 1, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

This time I\u2019m talking about the geopolitics and historical amnesia behind PM Abe\u2019s April visit to the United States, and what all the misdirected fanfare means not only for Asia as a region, but also NJ residents in Japan. Here\u2019s the opening:<\/p>\n

JT JBC: As I\u2019ve often written, I\u2019m a big proponent of the historical record \u2014 if for no other reason, so we can look back at the past and learn from our mistakes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That has been a major issue for the current Japanese government. As hundreds of historians have publicly stated, the Shinzo Abe administration has been systematically working to deny (or in Abe-speak, \u201cbeautify\u201d) Japan\u2019s worst wartime ugliness, on an increasingly obvious quest to reconfigure Japan as a military power. In other words, the right is marching the country back to the Japan that nearly annihilated itself 70 years ago.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m even more disappointed with the historical amnesia of the Americans. Abe\u2019s standing-ovation tour of the United States in April, during which the two allies established the new Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation, has basically helped Abe further destabilize the region.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s awful news. The U.S., Japan\u2019s strongest ally and chaperone for most of its foreign policy, is, given Japan\u2019s powerless leftist opposition, basically the only one who can stop this. [But they won\u2019t. In fact, they\u2019ve done exactly the opposite by publicly legitimizing Japan\u2019s march back to militarism\u2026]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13333<\/a><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s all for this month. Thanks for reading!
\nDr. ARUDOU, Debito
\nDEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JULY 5, 2015 ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Table of Contents:
\nACTIVISM AND ITS TRIBULATIONS
\n1) \u201cThe problem I have with David Aldwinkle [sic] is\u2026\u201d A stock criticism of me and my methods, then my answer.
\n2) Film record of Debito in action negotiating with a \u201cJapanese Only\u201d establishment in Shinjuku: excerpt from documentary \u201cSour Strawberries\u201d (2009)
\n3) Tangent: How anti-discrimination measures are enforced elsewhere: Racism towards me at a bank in Canada
\n4) Honolulu Weekly Feb 9 1994: \u201cPrints of Darkness\u201d: Ronald Fujiyoshi, Hawaiian fighter of GOJ fingerprinting of NJ, 20 years ago says prescient things about future Japan<\/p>\n

INTERESTING TIDINGS IN OFFICIALDOM
\n5) AOL News: J-League soccer ref speaks English to, then denigrates Japanese-German player, denies anything discriminatory. But then official protests from club!
\n6) Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus extended interview with Dr. M.G. Sheftall: \u201cJapan\u2019s Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu\u201d
\n7) Tangent: Indo-Pacific Review article: \u201cA Rope Bridge in a Fiber-Optic Age: The East-West Center in Hawaii\u201d
\n8 ) Looking for substantiation of change in editorial bent at Japan Today etc. after acquisition by right-wing Fuji Media Holdings<\/p>\n

\u2026 and finally\u2026
\n9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 88: \u201cU.S. green-lights Japan\u2019s march back to militarism\u201d, on America\u2019s historical amnesia in US-Japan Relations, June 1, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","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=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}