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Hi Blog. As promised, the Ministry of Justice’s official survey on discrimination against foreigners (alas, not “racial discrimination”) came out late last month. Debito.org first reported on this survey some months ago<\/a>, received primary-source information on it from a Debito.org Reader<\/a>, and then did a Japan Times column on it<\/a>. Now the results are out, and they have officialized the levels of discrimination against NJ residents nationwide. I’ll refrain from comment at the moment (Debito.org Readers, please feel free to take up the slack), but for the record, the entire report from the MOJ is here<\/a> (courtesy of TH). Thanks everyone for all the articles, and for your patience in my getting to this. Dr. Debito Arudou<\/p>\n

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\n30% of foreigners living in Japan claim discrimination: gov’t survey<\/strong>
\n http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20170331\/p2a\/00m\/0na\/016000c<\/a><\/strong>
\n March 31, 2017 (Mainichi Japan), courtesy of JK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some 29.8 percent of foreign residents of Japan have experienced discrimination in the past five years, according to Justice Ministry survey results released on March 31.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey was conducted in November and December last year on 18,500 mid-to-long-term foreign residents aged 18 or over, including ethnic Koreans with special permanent resident status. Responses were received from 4,252 people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey was carried out with the cooperation of 37 municipal governments, including those of Tokyo’s Minato Ward and the cities of Sapporo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka. By nation of origin, the greatest number of respondents was from China, at 1,382 people, or 32.5 percent, followed by South Korea at 941 people, or 22.1 percent, and the Philippines, at 285 people, or 6.7 percent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the respondents, 1,269 said they had been the target of discriminatory language. Some 53.3 percent of these respondents, or 676 people, said the offender had been “a stranger.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last five years, 2,044 of the respondents, or 48.1 percent, had looked for a home, and 804, or 39.3 percent, had the experience of being denied a lease because they were a foreigner.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Regarding their exposure to hate speech, 1,826 people, or 42.9 percent of the respondents, said they had seen or heard reports about hate speech demonstrations targeting particular races or ethnic groups through media such as television, newspaper or magazines. Some 1,416, or 33.3 percent, said they had seen reports on hate speech on the internet.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Legal affairs bureaus around the nation have sections where people can seek help regarding human rights issues, but at least 80 percent of survey respondents did not know this. A Justice Ministry representative said, “We want to consider methods to spread awareness of help centers and make them easy for foreign residents to use.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey was the central government’s first ever into discrimination against foreigners. The Justice Ministry plans to examine the results and apply them to its human rights policies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Japanese version<\/p>\n

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\nhttp:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20170331\/dde\/041\/040\/067000c?ck=1<\/a>
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\n\u6771\u4eac\u65b0\u805e\u30002017\u5e743\u670831\u65e5 \u5915\u520a courtesy of TH
\nhttp:\/\/www.tokyo-np.co.jp\/article\/politics\/list\/201703\/CK2017033102000259.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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About 40% of foreigners seeking housing in Japan turned away: survey<\/strong>
\n TOKYO, March 31, 2017, Kyodo News, courtesy of TH<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/english.kyodonews.jp\/news\/2017\/03\/466425.html<\/a><\/p>\n

About 40 percent of foreigners have experienced being turned down when looking for a place to live in Japan because they were not Japanese, the results of a Justice Ministry survey showed Friday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the 2,044 respondents who said they had tried to find residential accommodation in Japan in the past five years, 40 percent said they had been rebuffed in their efforts because they were foreigners.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Around 27 percent said they had given up on a property after seeing a notice saying foreigners are not accepted.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The ministry conducted its first-ever survey to identify the forms of discrimination faced by foreigners in Japan in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. It randomly selected 500 foreigners aged 18 and older in each of 37 municipalities across Japan and 4,252 responded from among the 18,500 people surveyed. Multiple answers were allowed in the survey.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chinese and South Korean nationals comprised more than half the survey participants, followed by Filipinos, Brazilians and Vietnamese.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among 2,788 people who have either job-hunted or have worked in Japan, 25 percent said they were refused work for being a foreign national and about 20 percent said their wages were lower than Japanese employees engaged in the same work, even though most of the respondents were able to have a conversation in Japanese, the survey added.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the survey, conducted between mid-November and early December last year, around 30 percent of all the respondents said they had been subjected to discriminatory remarks, while around 80 percent of 4,085 people who said they have either witnessed or heard hate speech developed negative feelings such as “discomfort” or “intolerance.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, only around 11 percent of the total respondents said they had sought advice from an institution when faced with discrimination while only about 12 percent said they knew of consultation services offered at the Justice Ministry’s legal affairs bureaus across Japan.<\/em><\/strong>
\nENDS<\/p>\n

And finally, The Japan Times’s take, complete with self-hating foreigner comments beneath, as usual:<\/p>\n

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Japan\u2019s foreign residents offer up insights in unprecedented survey on discrimination<\/strong>
\n BY TOMOHIRO OSAKI, STAFF WRITER, THE JAPAN TIMES, MAR 31, 2017<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2017\/03\/31\/national\/japans-foreign-residents-sound-off-in-unprecedented-survey-on-discrimination\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Rent application denials, Japanese-only recruitment and racist taunts are among the most rampant forms of discrimination faced by foreign residents in Japan, according to the results of the country\u2019s first nationwide survey on the issue, released Friday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The unprecedented survey of 18,500 expats of varying nationalities at the end of last year paints a comprehensive picture of deeply rooted discrimination in Japan as the nation struggles to acclimate to a recent surge in foreign residents and braces for an even greater surge in tourists in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It also represents the latest in a series of fledgling steps taken by Japan to curb racism, following last year\u2019s first-ever video analysis by the Justice Ministry of anti-Korea demonstrations and the enactment of a law to eradicate hate speech.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In carrying out the survey, the Justice Ministry commissioned the Center for Human Rights Education and Training, a public foundation, to mail questionnaires to non-Japanese residents in 37 municipalities nationwide. Of the 18,500, 4,252 men and women, or 23.0 percent, provided valid responses. Nationalities included Chinese, South Koreans, Filipinos, Brazilians, Vietnamese and Americans.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The study found that 39.3 percent of 2,044 respondents who applied to rent apartments over the past five years got dismissed because they are not Japanese.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, 41.2 percent said they were turned down because they couldn\u2019t secure a Japanese guarantor, while 26.8 percent said they quit their pursuit of a new domicile after being discouraged by a \u201cJapanese-only\u201d prerequisite.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Workplace discrimination appears rife, too.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the 4,252 respondents, 2,788 said they had either worked or sought employment in Japan over the past five years. Of them, 25.0 percent said they had experienced being brushed off by potential employers because they are non-Japanese, while 19.6 percent said they were paid lower than their Japanese co-workers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a separate question, 29.8 percent of those who responded to the survey said they either \u201cfrequently\u201d or \u201coccasionally\u201d heard race-based insults being hurled at them, mostly from strangers (53.3 percent), bosses, co-workers and business partners (38.0 percent) and neighbors (19.3 percent).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among other examples of unpleasantness mentioned by respondents were \u201cgetting weird stares from strangers (31.7 percent),\u201d \u201cbeing harassed because of poor Japanese-language proficiency (25.1 percent)\u201d and \u201cbeing avoided in public spaces such as buses, trains and shopping malls (14.9 percent).\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe this survey will serve as key basic data for us to implement policies to protect human rights of foreign nationals in the future,\u201d Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda told reporters Friday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The implementation of the survey is the latest sign that Japan, after years of inaction, is inching toward tackling the problem of racism as the nation becomes increasingly diverse.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Justice Ministry statistic released last September showed that the number of permanent as well as middle- and long-term foreign residents in the country hit a record 2.307 million in June, up about 135,000 from a year earlier.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adding to this is the advent in recent years of jingoistic rallies staged by ultraconservative civic groups on the streets of ethnic Korean neighborhoods, such as Shin-Okubo in Tokyo and Kawasaki, calling for the \u201cmassacre\u201d of Koreans they branded as \u201ccockroaches.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Justice Ministry\u2019s first probe into hate speech concluded in March last year that 1,152 such demonstrations took place from April 2012 to September 2015 across the nation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a related move, an unprecedented hate speech law was enacted last year, highlighting efforts by the central government and municipalities to take steps to eliminate such vitriolic language.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, despite being a signatory to the U.N.-designated International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Japan has for years shied away from enacting a comprehensive law banning racism, based on the position that discrimination here is \u201cnot serious enough to legalize punitive measures against the dissemination of racist ideology and risk having a chilling effect on proper speech<\/a>,\u201d as stated by the Foreign Ministry.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kim Myungsoo, a professor of sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, hailed the ministry\u2019s latest survey, saying it shed light on the reality of racism inherent to Japan that effectively discredits this government stance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe survey publicly confirmed the reality of victimization caused by racism in Japan, which would prevent the government from sticking to its conventional assertion,\u201d said Kim, who himself is an ethnic Korean resident. \u201cI believe the government is ready to change its position.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hiroshi Tanaka, a professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, said the government has much to learn from the results of this survey, noting an overwhelming 85.3 percent of the respondents said they were not aware of human rights consultation services made available by regional branches of the Justice Ministry.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But a sad irony, he pointed out, plagues these services in the first place, with foreign nationals effectively disqualified from becoming counselors there due to a law that makes having Japanese nationality a prerequisite for the post.<\/em><\/strong>
\nENDS<\/p>\n

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