{"id":14280,"date":"2016-11-03T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14280"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:27:43","slug":"afp-justice-ministry-to-conduct-first-major-survey-on-racism-in-japan-bravo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14280","title":{"rendered":"AFP: Justice Ministry to conduct first major survey on racism in Japan. Bravo."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Interesting development here. Given that most surveys on foreigners<\/a> and government policy on foreigners<\/a> don’t ask foreign residents for their input (this is a society that even\u00a0excludes foreign residents from official\u00a0population tallies; see here<\/a> and here<\/a>),\u00a0this is a positive development. If any Debito.org Readers get this survey, please scan it before you fill it out and send it to debito@debito.org, and let’s see how the survey has been written up. Too many questions posed by the GOJ re foreigners slant them to produce negative outcomes<\/a> — including even questioning that racism exists<\/a>. It’d be nice (not to mention more scientific) if that didn’t happen this time. Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Justice Ministry to conduct first major survey on racism in Japan<\/strong>
\n AFP-JIJI\/Japan Times OCT 30, 2016<\/strong>
\n Courtesy of OK<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2016\/10\/30\/national\/social-issues\/justice-ministry-conduct-first-major-survey-racism-japan\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Justice Ministry will conduct its first large-scale survey on racism in Japan as discrimination becomes a growing social concern, a report said Sunday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey will cover 18,500 foreign residents 18 or older, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said, adding that the results will be released by the end of March and reflected in new policies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The poll will be conducted in 13 languages ranging from Japanese and English to Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Portuguese, the vernacular daily said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The questions will ask whether respondents have experienced or seen racial discrimination in daily life or in the workplace, and what action they want the government to take to eliminate it, the report said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of foreign residents has grown in recent years, but their ratio to the total population still stands at less than 2 percent, according to ministry data.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No comment on the report was available from the ministry Sunday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Incidents of hate speech directed against specific ethnic groups on the streets or online have broken out in recent years. Most are directed at ethnic Koreans who ended up in Japan when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule between 1910 and 1945, and their offspring.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a rare court ruling against racial discrimination, a vocal anti-Korean group was ordered in 2013 to stop its hate speech campaign against a Pyongyang-linked school and pay some \u00a512 million in damages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Diet in June brought in legislation promoting efforts to eliminate discriminatory speech and behavior against non-Japanese people.<\/em><\/strong>
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AFP: The Justice Ministry will conduct its first large-scale survey on racism in Japan as discrimination becomes a growing social concern, a report said Sunday. The survey will cover 18,500 foreign residents 18 or older, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said, adding that the results will be released by the end of March and reflected in new policies. […] The questions will ask whether respondents have experienced or seen racial discrimination in daily life or in the workplace, and what action they want the government to take to eliminate it, the report said. […] No comment on the report was available from the ministry Sunday.<\/p>\n

COMMENT: Interesting development here. Given that most surveys on foreigners and government policy on foreigners don’t ask foreign residents for their input (this is a society that even excludes foreign residents from official population tallies; see here and here), this is a positive development. If any Debito.org Readers get this survey, please scan it before you fill it out and send it to debito@debito.org, and let’s see how the survey has been written up. Too many questions posed by the GOJ re foreigners slant them to produce negative outcomes — including even questioning that racism exists. It’d be nice (not to mention more scientific) if that didn’t happen this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,36,34,35,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-good-news","category-human-rights","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280","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=14280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}