{"id":14660,"date":"2017-06-16T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14660"},"modified":"2017-06-16T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:10:34","slug":"debito-org-newsletter-june-17-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14660","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 17, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Table of Contents:<\/em><\/strong>
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\nMORE OF THE SAME, WITH NEW SPINS<\/strong>
\n 1) Abe Admin backlashes against UN Rapporteur criticism against Conspiracy Bill, overseas Gaijin Handlers kick into gear<\/strong>
\n 2) Kyodo: \u201cA year after enactment of hate speech law, xenophobic rallies down by nearly half\u201d, but hateful language continues, mutates<\/strong>
\n 3) Nikkei: \u2018No foreigners allowed\u2019: Survey shows heavy discrimination in Japan (which editorializing Nikkei Asian Review tries to excuse and dismiss)<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHAT COULD BE DONE<\/strong>
\n 4) Denver Post columnist Terri Frei fired after racist tweet re Japanese driver\u2019s Indy 500 win (contrast with how J media treated Nigerian-Japanese HS baseball player Okoe Rui)<\/strong>
\n 5) Tangent: NPR: journalist Tom Ricks and how Western society operates best when it assumes an objective reality, and values facts over opinions<\/strong><\/p>\n

LACK OF CONSIDERATION FOR DIVERSITY<\/strong>
\n 6) Reader StrepThroat: Medical prescriptions for foreign patients gauged to ineffectual children\u2019s doses, regardless of patient size considerations<\/strong>
\n 7) Asahi: Joe Kurosu MD on ineffectually low doses of medicine for NJ patients and bureaucratic intransigence<\/strong><\/p>\n

A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE<\/strong>
\n 8 ) Japan Times cites Debito on \u201cTackling [anti-foreigner] signs in Japan that you\u2019re not welcome\u201d, including Tokyo Harajuku Takeshita Doori<\/strong>
\n 9) Japan\u2019s High School Hair Police: Asahi on \u201cSurvey: 57% of Tokyo HSs demand hair-color proof\u201d. Still.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026 and finally\u2026<\/em><\/strong>
\n10) Japan Times JBC column 107: \u201cTime to act on insights from landmark survey of Japan\u2019s foreign residents\u201d Apr 26, 2017<\/strong>
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By Dr. Debito Arudou (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org, Twitter @arudoudebito)
\nFreely forwardable<\/p>\n

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MORE OF THE SAME, WITH NEW SPINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Abe Admin backlashes against UN Rapporteur criticism against Conspiracy Bill, overseas Gaijin Handlers kick into gear<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Government of Japan (GOJ) is at it again \u2014 curtailing fundamental civil and human rights for its people and getting nasty if you object to it. Once upon a time (see below), the GOJ merely denied that Japan is in violation of any of its human rights treaties by giving sophistic counterarguments. Now, under the ultrarightist Abe Administration, those denials are on steroids, with leading politicians injecting indignant anger into their denialism, even activating the Gaijin Handlers abroad to whitewash optics on Japan\u2019s policies in places like the New York Times. First, the Japan Times offers a primer on the emerging Conspiracy Bill that received sharp criticism on May 18 by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy and University of Malta Law Professor Joseph Cannataci, on the heels of criticism from UN Special Rapporteur and UC Irvine Law Professor David Kaye leveled at Japan\u2019s already diminishing press freedoms in a report last year. After the Japan Times article, let\u2019s look at how the New York Times reports on the Conspiracy Bill, and how the GOJ quickly responds with its Gaijin Handlers.<\/p>\n

They doth protest too much, methinks. Even an academic source cited in the Japan Times below says he\u2019s \u201cnot aware of any other developed nation that had protested against special rapporteurs so vociferously and consistently as Japan.\u201d And, as far as Debito.org goes, you just know that these \u201cterrorism\u201d and \u201corganized crime\u201d tropes, once further embedded in law, will be used to further racially profile and crack down in particular on (foreign) \u201cterrorists\u201d and (foreign) \u201corganized crime\u201d. But this new law will normalize it for everyone.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14641<\/a><\/p>\n

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2) Kyodo: \u201cA year after enactment of hate speech law, xenophobic rallies down by nearly half\u201d, but hateful language continues, mutates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good news, according to Kyodo below, is that the number of hate-speech rallies in Japan has gone down significantly. Some mixed news, however, is that haters have found ways to temper their hate speech so that it avoids extreme invective (such as advocating death and destruction), but continues nonetheless with the public denigration of minorities and outsiders. Hence the new law is working, but it\u2019s causing sophistication and subtlety in message. Sort of like replacing \u201cJapanese Only\u201d signs with \u201cWe reserve the right to refuse service to anyone\u201d, and in practice only applying the rule to foreign-looking people.<\/p>\n

Hence the need for something more comprehensive. Stage Two of anti-racism legislation, as Ryang Yong Song of the Anti Racism Information Center says in the article, would be this: \u201cFor the last year, discussions only focused on what is hate speech and the scope of freedom of expression, but that is not enough. A law is needed to ban all kinds of discrimination including ethnicity, birth and disability.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Debito.org has been advocating for decades, let\u2019s have that law against racial discrimination (jinshu sabetsu teppai hou<\/em>). A law against hate speech is good, but it\u2019s a half-measure.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14630<\/a><\/p>\n

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3) Nikkei: \u2018No foreigners allowed\u2019: Survey shows heavy discrimination in Japan (which editorializing Nikkei Asian Review tries to excuse and dismiss)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following my most recent JBC column on the MOJ Foreign Residents Survey (which showed significant and substantial rates of \u201cforeigner discrimination\u201d in Japan, particularly in housing), we have the right-of-center Nihon Keizai Shinbun (roughly equivalent to the Wall Street Journal in stature and tone) offering their interpretation of Survey results. Note the article\u2019s editorializing (which I will point out within the article below [in square brackets]) to try to be discounting or dismissive of the report \u2014 trying to pass it off as somehow \u201cworries\u201d about mere cultural misunderstandings, or issues not serious enough to seek help for.<\/p>\n

NIKKEI: Nearly 27% of the 2,044 foreign respondents who had sought new housing within the past five years reported giving up on a potential residence after discovering a notice saying \u201cno foreigners allowed.\u201d [\u2026] These rejections, however, are not necessarily motivated by racism.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[But that\u2019s not what the survey says. This is the Nikkei offering their interpretation. And look at their reasoning:]<\/p>\n

Many landlords fear they may not be able to communicate easily with foreign tenants. Other reasons for refusal to rent include worries that foreign tenants will not follow Japanese customs, such as taking off their shoes inside the house.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[And that\u2019s not racism? Presuming that foreign tenants cannot communicate? And justifying the denial of housing due to unfounded \u201cworries\u201d that people allegedly WON\u2019T TAKE OFF THEIR SHOES!? On what planet would this not be interpreted as a normalization of prejudice expressed performatively as racism? I guess Planet Nikkei.]<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14573<\/a><\/p>\n

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WHAT COULD BE DONE<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) Denver Post columnist Terri Frei fired after racist tweet re Japanese driver\u2019s Indy 500 win (contrast with how J media treated Nigerian-Japanese HS baseball player Okoe Rui)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought it prudent to archive here on Debito.org another case of how other societies deal with racial discrimination. We keep on hearing that, \u201cWell, people discriminate all over the world, and it\u2019s just as bad in [insert country, usually the US] as it is in Japan. So do something about racism in your own country before you lecture Japan.\u201d Okay, but here\u2019s yet another example of what American society, for example, often does when somebody says something racist. There are social repercussions that deter both the current and future racists. In the case mentioned below, the racist got fired. Not ignored, defended (including being defended by foreign media in Japan), given a venue (or his own political party) to spout and normalize even more racism, or even further elected to office, as can happen in Japan. For your consideration, and for the record:<\/p>\n

Wash Post<\/strong>: Terry Frei, a columnist who has been named Colorado\u2019s sportswriter of the year four times, is out of a job after tweeting that he was \u201cvery uncomfortable\u201d with Japanese driver Takuma Sato winning the Indianapolis 500 on the day before Memorial Day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Denver Post publisher Mac Tully and editor Lee Ann Colacioppo apologized Monday for a \u201cdisrespectful and unacceptable tweet\u201d as they announced that Frei is no longer an employee of the newspaper because of the social media comment that sparked intense backlash. \u201cWe apologize for the disrespectful and unacceptable tweet that was sent by one of our reporters,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cTerry Frei is no longer an employee of The Denver Post. It\u2019s our policy not to comment further on personnel issues. The tweet doesn\u2019t represent what we believe nor what we stand for. We hope you will accept our profound apologies.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Frei apologized for the tweet he put up shortly after Sato\u2019s historic win. He later deleted it. \u201cNothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend,\u201d Frei tweeted after Sato became the first Japanese driver to win the prestigious race.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14639<\/a><\/p>\n

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5) Tangent: NPR: journalist Tom Ricks and how Western society operates best when it assumes an objective reality, and values facts over opinions<\/strong><\/p>\n

NPR\u2019s TERRY GROSS<\/strong>: I want to quote something that you write in your book \u201cChurchill And Orwell: The Fight For Freedom.\u201d And again, this is a book \u2013 it\u2019s a kind of dual biography and looking at how their political views evolved and how it was reflected in their writing and their hatred of both fascism and Stalinism.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So you write (reading aloud) \u201cthe fundamental driver of Western civilization is the agreement that objective reality exists, that people of goodwill can perceive it and that other people will change their views when presented with the facts of the matter.\u201d So I\u2019d like you to talk to how that reflects on Churchill and Orwell and how that reflects today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JOURNALIST TOM RICKS: That\u2019s the last line in the book. And if \u2013 I\u2019m glad you read it because if there\u2019s anything I have to say I learned from this experience of reading and re-reading thousands upon thousands of words by Churchill and Orwell over the last three and half years, it\u2019s that. That\u2019s my conclusion \u2013 that this is the essence of Western society and, at its best, how Western society operates.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s \u2013 you can really reduce it to a formula. First of all, you need to have principles. You need to stand by those principles and remember them. Second, you need to look at reality to observe facts and not just have opinions and to say, what are the facts of the matter? Third, you need to act upon those facts according to your principles.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14634<\/a><\/p>\n

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LACK OF CONSIDERATION FOR DIVERSITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

6) Reader StrepThroat: Medical prescriptions for foreign patients gauged to ineffectual children\u2019s doses, regardless of patient size considerations<\/strong><\/p>\n

StrepThroat<\/strong>: \u201cI was hit with some evil form of strep throat just as Golden Week started. After hours of hunting down an open hospital, and then another hour or so to hunt down an open pharmacist, I had my prescription antibiotic cut down to 2\/3rds the prescription at the pharmacy. Apparently the doctor had taken my size into consideration when writing the prescription\u2026but the pharmacists called him out on it exceeding the maximum daily dosage. I protested but was ultimately left with what the rest of the world considers a children\u2019s dosage. After speaking with the pharmacist, doctor, and other pharmacists, what I found was the maximum dosage of certain medications is regulated by law and the maximum dosages for sales within Japan are determined by trials done exclusively on ethnic Japanese. [\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, strict regulation of dosage size, based on the average ethnic Japanese rather than a more reasonable system based on body weight or age like in other countries. The end result is ineffective, children\u2019s dosing or less for those of us who don\u2019t fit the garigari average Japanese body size standard. Probably not intentional racism but the narrow-minded mindset to use only locals for domestic Japanese consumptions means at the end of the day, it is likely to affect most NJ patients as well as any Japanese that are larger than the average Japanese. Every doc and pharmacist agreed the dosages were too small but gave the usual shogainai\/gamanshikadekinai answers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14594<\/a><\/p>\n

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7) Asahi: Joe Kurosu MD on ineffectually low doses of medicine for NJ patients and bureaucratic intransigence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Kurosu MD: \u201cFor reasons that are unclear, however, the indicated maximum dose is often significantly lower than that which is standard in other parts of the world. Difference in physical frame and incidents of side effects are some of the purported reasons, but a scientifically convincing basis is lacking. A significant number of resident foreign nationals currently receive health care through the Japanese national health insurance system, but are ill-served because of these dosage standards. The maximum daily doses indicated on package inserts of standard medications for high blood pressure, diabetes and depression, for example, are one-quarter to one-half of the standard doses in other countries for the identical drug. [\u2026]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn any case, if the government requires foreign nationals to join the [National Health Insurance] system, it must be willing to provide services appropriate to that population. If this is not possible, then buying in the system should be voluntary [\u2026] I urge the government and relevant authorities to return autonomy to the physicians so the medications can be prescribed appropriately for the patient, whether or foreign or Japanese, based on science and clinical judgment, rather than [mechanically applying the dosage levels indicated on the package inserts].\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14616<\/a><\/p>\n

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A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE<\/strong><\/p>\n

8 ) Japan Times cites Debito on \u201cTackling [anti-foreigner] signs in Japan that you\u2019re not welcome\u201d, including Tokyo Harajuku Takeshita Doori<\/strong><\/p>\n

JT<\/strong>: \u201cMOTHER F\u2014\u2014- KISS MY ANUS. F\u2014- OFF Mother F\u2014\u2014-\u2026 foreigner. Sneaking PHOTO.\u201d A hand-written sign bearing these words is among several decorated with similar insults that greet shoppers outside a fashion store that sells rock-style clothing in Tokyo. The sign sits among shirts emblazoned with designs featuring overseas rock bands such as Iron Maiden, Children Of Bodom and Marilyn Manson in the fashion and kawaii culture mecca of Harajuku\u2019s Takeshita Street in Shibuya Ward.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to comments about what to do about this situation, I made a comment that didn\u2019t make the cut of the article: The authorities are right. This isn\u2019t a \u201cJapanese Only\u201d sign. It\u2019s just a rude anti-foreigner sign, painstakingly rendered by shop staff too angry to say \u201cNo photos, please.\u201d Kinda ironic, given the penchant for Japanese tourists here in Hawaii to take snapshots of anything they find exotic. At least merchants here word their notices more politely.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You could make the case that this is hate speech, but it might not convince enough people who can\u2019t be bothered with signs that don\u2019t affect them. It\u2019s better to contact tourist associations, and do some name-and-shame as the 2020 Olympics loom. Or better yet, create unintended consequences. Tell people where the sign is, and go take pictures of it. Add to the irony with photos of \u201cno photos\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14646<\/a><\/p>\n

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9) Japan\u2019s High School Hair Police: Asahi on \u201cSurvey: 57% of Tokyo HSs demand hair-color proof\u201d. Still.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten years ago I wrote a JT column on Japan\u2019s \u201cHair Police\u201d, i.e., how Japanese schools force their kids of diverse backgrounds to conform to a Wajin ideal of \u201cblack straight hair\u201d imposed by inflexible school rules, and dye their hair black. It\u2019s recently been revisited by the Asahi and Business Insider.com.<\/p>\n

As I wrote back then, the damage to children is both physiological (Google \u201chair coloring\u201d and \u201corgan damage\u201d and see what reputable sources, such as the American Journal of Epidemiology and the National Institutes of Health, have to say about side effects: lymphatic cancer, cataracts, toxins, burns from ammonium persulfate), and psychological. And yet it persists.<\/p>\n

And not as a fringe-element trend \u2014 the majority of Tokyo high schools (the most possibly cosmopolitan of the lot) police hair color. In any case, woe betide Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities for daring to not \u201clook Japanese\u201d enough. Here are the two articles, the second of which actually references my old JT column.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14592<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2026 and finally\u2026<\/em><\/strong>
\n10) Japan Times JBC column 107: \u201cTime to act on insights from landmark survey of Japan\u2019s foreign residents\u201d Apr 26, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME TO ACT ON INSIGHTS FROM LANDMARK SURVEY OF JAPAN\u2019S FOREIGN RESIDENTS<\/strong>
\n The Japan Times, JUST BE CAUSE Column 107, Thursday April 27, 2017, by Debito Arudou<\/strong><\/p>\n

As promised, in March the Justice Ministry released the results of a survey on Japan\u2019s foreign residents (gaikokujin juumin chousa), conducted last year (see \u201cGovernment, Survey Thyself,\u201d JBC Mar. 5). Compiled by the \u201cCenter for Human Rights Education and Training\u201d public-interest foundation (www.jinken.or.jp), it surveyed the types and degrees of discrimination that foreigners face here. (The report in Japanese is at<\/em> <\/strong>http:\/\/www.moj.go.jp\/content\/001221782.pdf<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

And as promised, here\u2019s JBC\u2019s synopsis of those results:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The report opens with a statement of purpose, talking about the pressures to \u201clive together\u201d (kyousei) with foreigners due to internationalization and globalization, not to mention the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Record numbers of foreigners are crossing Japan\u2019s borders, bringing with them different languages and customs, and \u201cso-called\u201d hate speech demos are also causing \u201cnumerous human rights problems.\u201d So to lay the groundwork for human rights protections for foreigners, this survey would grasp the issues directly facing foreigners \u201cstaying\u201d (zairyuu) in Japan\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14575<\/a><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s all for this month. Thanks as always for reading! \u00a0Dr. Debito Arudou
\nDEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 17, 2017 ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Table of Contents:
\nMORE OF THE SAME, WITH NEW SPINS
\n1) Abe Admin backlashes against UN Rapporteur criticism against Conspiracy Bill, overseas Gaijin Handlers kick into gear
\n2) Kyodo: \u201cA year after enactment of hate speech law, xenophobic rallies down by nearly half\u201d, but hateful language continues, mutates
\n3) Nikkei: \u2018No foreigners allowed\u2019: Survey shows heavy discrimination in Japan (which editorializing Nikkei Asian Review tries to excuse and dismiss)<\/p>\n

WHAT COULD BE DONE
\n4) Denver Post columnist Terri Frei fired after racist tweet re Japanese driver\u2019s Indy 500 win (contrast with how J media treated Nigerian-Japanese HS baseball player Okoe Rui)
\n5) Tangent: NPR: journalist Tom Ricks and how Western society operates best when it assumes an objective reality, and values facts over opinions<\/p>\n

LACK OF CONSIDERATION FOR DIVERSITY
\n6) Reader StrepThroat: Medical prescriptions for foreign patients gauged to ineffectual children\u2019s doses, regardless of patient size considerations
\n7) Asahi: Joe Kurosu MD on ineffectually low doses of medicine for NJ patients and bureaucratic intransigence<\/p>\n

A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE
\n8 ) Japan Times cites Debito on \u201cTackling [anti-foreigner] signs in Japan that you\u2019re not welcome\u201d, including Tokyo Harajuku Takeshita Doori
\n9) Japan\u2019s High School Hair Police: Asahi on \u201cSurvey: 57% of Tokyo HSs demand hair-color proof\u201d. Still.<\/p>\n

\u2026 and finally\u2026
\n10) Japan Times JBC column 107: \u201cTime to act on insights from landmark survey of Japan\u2019s foreign residents\u201d Apr 26, 2017<\/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-14660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660","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=14660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}