{"id":14506,"date":"2017-03-05T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14506"},"modified":"2017-03-05T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:01:22","slug":"japan-times-jbc-106-government-survey-thyself-on-unprecedented-nationwide-poll-of-nj-on-discrimination-with-one-big-blind-spot-march-5-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14506","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times JBC 106: “Government, survey thyself”, on unprecedented nationwide poll of NJ on discrimination, with one big blind spot (March 5, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Government of Japan, survey thyself<\/strong>
\n BY DEBITO ARUDOU<\/strong>
\nJBC 106, SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES,\u00a0MAR 5, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something landmark happened late last year. Japan\u2019s government undertook a nationwide survey of discrimination toward Japan\u2019s long-term non-Japanese (NJ) residents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Foreign Residents Survey (FRS), drawn up in 13 languages, was randomly mailed last November to 18,500 NJ residents. It was widely dispersed \u2014 to about 500 names per local government.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Good. We need hard data about the breadth and depth of discrimination to deal with it. However, previous government surveys analyzed in this column (e.g., \u201cHuman rights survey stinks,\u201d Zeit Gist, Oct. 23, 2007<\/a>) had serious methodological problems. And afterwards, thanks to attention in The Japan Times, they were amended (Source: Embedded Racism<\/a> p 243 fn 140). Many thanks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So how is the survey this time? Much better. But it still needs work due to an enormous blind spot…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest at The Japan times at http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2017\/03\/05\/issues\/government-japan-survey-thyself\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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JBC 106: Something landmark happened late last year. Japan\u2019s government undertook a nationwide survey of discrimination toward Japan\u2019s long-term non-Japanese (NJ) residents.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Residents Survey (FRS), drawn up in 13 languages, was randomly mailed last November to 18,500 NJ residents. It was widely dispersed \u2014 to about 500 names per local government.<\/p>\n

Good. We need hard data about the breadth and depth of discrimination to deal with it. However, previous government surveys analyzed in this column (e.g., \u201cHuman rights survey stinks,\u201d Zeit Gist, Oct. 23, 2007) had serious methodological problems. And afterwards, thanks to attention in The Japan Times, they were amended (Source: Embedded Racism p 243 fn 140). Many thanks.<\/p>\n

So how is the survey this time? Much better. But it still needs work due to an enormous blind spot…<\/p>\n

Read the rest at The Japan times at http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2017\/03\/05\/issues\/government-japan-survey-thyself\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,28,18,36,34,50,35,52,5,12,4,16,13,7,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-gaiatsu","category-good-news","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-united-nations","category-victories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506","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=14506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}