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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 10, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Table of Contents:<\/em><\/strong>
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POLICY PAROXYSMS THAT HURT PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) JT and Nikkei: Japan to offer longer stays for \u201cTrainees\u201d, but with contract lengths that void qualifying for Permanent Residency<\/strong>
\n2) Kyoto City Govt. subway advert has Visible Minority as poster girl for free AIDS\/STDs testing. Wrong on many levels, especially statistically.<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOOD NEWS, SOMETIMES TAMPED DOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Mainichi: Zainichi Korean\u2019s hate speech lawsuit ends in her favor. Bravo. But Mainichi plays word games, mistranslates \u201cracial discrimination\u201d (jinshu sabetsu) into \u201cethnic discrimination\u201d in English!<\/strong>
\n4) Japan Supreme Court enforces Hague Convention on Int\u2019l Child Abductions (for Japanese claimants). Yet Sakura TV claims Hague is for \u201cselfish White men\u201d trying to entrap women from \u201cuncivilized countries\u201d as \u201cbabysitters\u201d<\/strong>
\n5) Asahi: Setagaya Ward plans to battle inter alia racial, ethnic discrimination (in specific) in a local ordinance. Progressive steps!<\/strong><\/p>\n

MORE EXCLUSIONISM<\/strong><\/p>\n

6) Sapporo Consadole soccer player and former England Team striker Jay Bothroyd refused entry to Hokkaido Classic golf course for being \u201cnot Japanese\u201d<\/strong>
\n7) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d sign on Izakaya Bar \u201c100\u201d (Momosaku \u767e\u4f5c) in Asakusa, Tokyo<\/strong>
\n8 ) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d diving and hiking tour company in Tokashikimura, Okinawa: \u201cBegin Diving Buddies\u201d<\/strong>
\n9) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d tourist information booth in JR Beppu Station<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

10) My Japan Times column JBC 111: \u201cWhite Supremacists and Japan: A Love Story\u201d (March 8, 2018)<\/strong>
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By Debito Arudou, Ph.D. (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org, Twitter @arudoudebito)
\nThe Debito.org Newsletter is, as always, freely forwardable<\/p>\n

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POLICY PAROXYSMS THAT HURT PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) JT and Nikkei: Japan to offer longer stays for \u201cTrainees\u201d, but with contract lengths that void qualifying for Permanent Residency<\/strong><\/p>\n

JT: Japan is weighing the creation of a new status of residence that would allow technical interns from abroad to stay longer in the country, as part of efforts to tackle severe labor shortages, sources said Wednesday. But interns\u2019 families would not be allowed to enter Japan \u2014 a provision meant to prevent the creation of the new status from leading to discussions on the sensitive issue of immigration, the sources said. The status would allow those who have completed a five-year technical intern training program and meet certain requirements to stay and work for up to five additional years, the sources said. [\u2026]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But according to a Nikkei business daily report, trainees will still have to return to their home after their programs end, and then apply for the new residence status that would allow them to work again in Japan for a further five years. This is apparently aimed at keeping trainees and interns from gaining eligibility to apply for permanent residency, for which one of the prerequisites is to be living in Japan for 10 years or more.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: As is within character since the early 1990s, Japan wants NJ workers to make up for labor shortages in Japan\u2019s workforce, but remains unwilling to allow NJ migrant workers to become immigrants: to access the benefits of their labors and years of investment in Japan\u2019s economy and society by allowing them to live in Japan. No, once again, Japan would rather leach off the best years of NJs\u2019 productive lives and then send them home. Except now GOJ policy explicitly wants them to stick around and be exploited ever longer (without their families, and with a built-in contract cut-off before they can qualify for Permanent Residency), again under the guise of the deadly \u201cTrainee\u201d slave-wage labor program.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14965<\/a><\/p>\n

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2) Kyoto City Govt. subway advert has Visible Minority as poster girl for free AIDS\/STDs testing. Wrong on many levels, especially statistically.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kyoto Government is advertising via subway posters free AIDS and STD testing. Good. But check out what image they\u2019re using for the face of sexually-transmitted diseases:<\/p>\n

Submitter XY<\/strong>: Please see the attached photo, snapped on a Kyoto metro yesterday afternoon. The only non-Japanese face visible in the metro car (other than mine) is on an advert for AIDS and STD testing by Kyoto City Government. I guess they could not imagine asking a Yamato nadeshiko to be the poster-girl for AIDS testing.<\/em><\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: Why are we targeting a Visible-Minority demographic with this ad? As XY says, that\u2019s the embedded racism of this campaign. My suspicion is that they are targeting Japan\u2019s sex workers, and a frequent association is that any foreigner imported for this task has diseases. This poster merely fortifies that.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s wrong. According to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, in 2015, non-Japanese people accounted for the minority of 108 (88 male; 20 female) out of 1,006 AIDS cases in Japan (and homosexual men, not women, remain the largest affected demographic). Plus don\u2019t forget that historically, a significant number of AIDS cases in Japan were the result not of sexual contact, but of HIV-tainted blood recklessly given to hemophiliacs *by the Japanese government* in the late 1980s. That\u2019s why this poster is visually misrepresenting the issue on many levels.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14921<\/a><\/p>\n

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GOOD NEWS, SOMETIMES TAMPED DOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Mainichi: Zainichi Korean\u2019s hate speech lawsuit ends in her favor. Bravo. But Mainichi plays word games, mistranslates \u201cracial discrimination\u201d (jinshu sabetsu) into \u201cethnic discrimination\u201d in English!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mainichi: \u00a0Freelance writer Lee Sin Hae, 46, filed a lawsuit with the Osaka District Court in August 2014 against [officially-acknowledged hate group] \u201cZainichi tokken o yurusanai shimin no kai\u201d (\u201cCitizens\u2019 group that does not forgive special rights for Korean residents of Japan,\u201d or \u201cZaitokukai\u201d) and its then chairman, Makoto Sakurai, demanding 5.5 million yen in compensation. Lee alleged that the group defamed her by calling her \u201can old Korean hag\u201d during rallies in the Sannomiya district of Kobe and \u201ca lawless Korean\u201d on Twitter.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The district court ruled in September 2016 that Zaitokukai had made the statements with the intent to incite and intensify discrimination against Korean residents of Japan, and ordered the group to pay Lee 770,000 yen in damages. According to Lee\u2019s attorney, in June 2017, the Osaka High Court became the first court to recognize that a plaintiff had been subjected to \u201ccomposite discrimination\u201d \u2014 in Lee\u2019s case, ethnic and gender discrimination. However, the high court upheld the lower court\u2019s compensation amount of 770,000 yen. Zaitokukai appealed, but the Supreme Court\u2019s Second Petty Bench turned down the appeal late last year, finalizing the Osaka High Court\u2019s decision.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Submitter JK comments:<\/strong> Now one of the things I find curious in the article is that we\u2019re introduced to so-called \u201ccomposite discrimination\u201d (\u8907\u5408\u5dee\u5225) which, in the Japanese version of the article is defined as racial discrimination (\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225) plus \u201cgender discrimination\u201d (\u5973\u6027\u5dee\u5225; I think \u2018sexism\u2019 would be a better choice of words). However, in the English version, \u201ccomposite discrimination\u201d is defined as \u201c**ethnic** and gender discrimination\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Debito comments<\/strong>: The mistranslation is very indicative. My take is that one of three things happened:<\/p>\n

1) The mistranslation was accidental, because Japanese society is so blind to the problem of \u201cracial discrimination\u201d in Japan (as Debito.org has demonstrated, it\u2019s taken decades for it to be explicitly called \u201cjinshu sabetsu\u201d in the Japanese) that editorial standards have reflexively reverse-engineered the language to make it \u201cethnic\u201d all over again.
\n2) The mistranslation was deliberate, because Japan has no races, therefore \u201cracial discrimination\u201d cannot exist in Japan (after all, holds the liberal Japanese view, \u201cJapanese and Koreans are the same race, therefore discrimination against Koreans isn\u2019t racial; it\u2019s ethnic\u201d). More on that below. Or,
\n3) The mistranslation was subterfuge, because the translator at the Mainichi happened to be one of those White Samurai types, who personally doesn\u2019t see \u201cracism\u201d as a problem in Japan (despite the original Japanese wording), and sneakily changed things to protect his Japan from the outside world.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14973<\/a><\/p>\n

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4) Japan Supreme Court enforces Hague Convention on Int\u2019l Child Abductions (for Japanese claimants). Yet Sakura TV claims Hague is for \u201cselfish White men\u201d trying to entrap women from \u201cuncivilized countries\u201d as \u201cbabysitters\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had an important Supreme Court ruling come down earlier this month, where an international custody dispute between two Japanese divorcees living in different countries resulted in the custodial parent overseas being awarded custody of the child, as per the Hague Convention on International Child Abductions. (See Japan Times article excerpt at the link.)<\/p>\n

Debito.org has commented at length on this issue (and I have even written a novel based upon true stories of Japan\u2019s safe haven for international child abductions). Part of the issue is that due to the insanity of Japan\u2019s Family Registry (koseki) System, after a divorce only ONE parent (as in, one family) gets total custody of the child, with no joint custody or legally-guaranteed visitation rights. This happens to EVERYONE who marries, has children, and divorces in Japan (regardless of nationality). It even happened to me.<\/p>\n

But what makes this Supreme Court decision somewhat inapplicable to anyone but Wajin Japanese is the fact that other custody issues under the Hague (which Japan only signed kicking and screaming, and with enough caveats to lead to probable nonenforcement), which involved NON-Japanese parents, faced a great deal of racism and propaganda, even from the Japanese government.<\/p>\n

As evidence, consider this TV segment (with English subtitles) on Japan\u2019s ultraconservative (PM Abe Shinzo is a frequent contributor) Sakura Channel TV network (firmly established with the \u201cpresent Japan positively no matter what\u201d NHK World network). It contains enough bald-facedly anti-foreign hypotheticals (including the requisite stereotype that foreigners are violent, and Japanese are trying to escape DV) to inspire entire sociological articles, and the incredible claim that Japan\u2019s court system is just appeasing White people and forcing a \u201cselfish\u201d alien system upon Japan.<\/p>\n

The best bits were when banner commentator Takayama Masayuki claimed a) White men just marry women from \u201cuncivilized\u201d countries until they find better women (such as ex-girlfriends from high school) and then divorce them, capturing them as \u201cbabysitters\u201d for once-a-week meet-ups with their kids (which Takayama overtly claims is the \u201cpremise\u201d of the Hague Convention in the first place); and b) (which was not translated properly in the subtitles) where Takayama at the very end cites Mori Ohgai (poet, soldier, medical doctor and translator who wrote sexualized fiction about a liaison between a Japanese man and a German woman) to say, \u201cplay around with White WOMEN and then escape back home.\u201d (Who\u2019s being selfish, not to mention hypocritical, now?) Take yet another plunge into this racialized sexpit of debate, where the racism doesn\u2019t even bother to embed itself.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14937<\/a><\/p>\n

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5) Asahi: Setagaya Ward plans to battle inter alia racial, ethnic discrimination (in specific) in a local ordinance. Progressive steps!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asahi: Tokyo\u2019s Setagaya Ward has drafted an ordinance designed to protect racial, ethnic and sexual minorities from discriminatory practices, a move hailed by human rights experts as an \u201cadvanced measure.\u201d The ward was one of the first local governments in Japan to recognize same-sex marriages, and the draft ordinance covers sexual minorities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the draft specifically notes that its target also includes discrimination based on nationality and race. Under the plan, the ward will establish a committee that will handle public complaints about discrimination and advise the mayor on what measures to take. A standing committee of the Setagaya Ward assembly approved the draft on Feb. 26. The assembly is expected to adopt the ordinance at a plenary session on March 2, and it will likely take effect in April.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: Setagaya-ku is trying to do what Tottori Prefecture tried to do in 2005 (which was, pass Japan\u2019s first ordinance specifically against racial discrimination, which is still NOT illegal in Japan; alas, Tottori UNpassed it months later). To be sure, Setagaya-ku\u2019s goals are obscured behind the typical slogans of \u201cdiscrimination due to differences in culture\u201d, and there isn\u2019t even a mention of \u201cracial discrimination\u201d (rendered as jinshu sabetsu) in this Setagaya-ku pamphlet briefing on the issue from last September. But baby steps, and the issue of \u201cracial discrimination\u201d (which has long been denied even as existing in Japan) has had domestic media traction as an actual, existing problem because of Setagaya-ku. Let\u2019s hope this serves as a template for other legislative bodies this time.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14902<\/a><\/p>\n

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MORE EXCLUSIONISM<\/strong><\/p>\n

6) Sapporo Consadole soccer player and former England Team striker Jay Bothroyd refused entry to Hokkaido Classic golf course for being \u201cnot Japanese\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is some foreshadowing. Famous football player Jay Bothroyd, who played for the English national team, and now plays for Sapporo Consadole, has faced a \u201cJapanese Only\u201d golf course in Hokkaido: a famous one called the Hokkaido Classic. (The very course was even designed by a foreigner!)<\/p>\n

Daily Express (UK): \u201cThe 36-year-old Arsenal academy graduate, who made his only appearance for England in 2010, joined J1 League club Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo last July. But the striker was left stunned after he was refused entry to his local golf course on the northernmost of Japan\u2019s major islands \u2013 the Hokkaido Classic \u2013 which was designed by golf legend and 17 time major tournament winner Jack Nicklaus. The exclusive par-72 course charges \u00a3338 for a weekend round of golf between June and July, with its fees website page stating that non-Japanese players must be accompanied by a club member.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>: This exclusionism is somewhat old hat for people who have been following the Otaru Onsens Case and the other \u201cJapanese Only\u201d places in Hokkaido and nationwide for all these decades. But when it starts happening to famous people (such as those playing for local Japanese teams), you know the bigots have lost their common sense from a public relations point of view. Bring on the 2020 Olympics! There will be lots more \u201cforeign\u201d athletes to target then! Not to mention their supporters.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15013<\/a><\/p>\n

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7) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d sign on Izakaya Bar \u201c100\u201d (Momosaku \u767e\u4f5c) in Asakusa, Tokyo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s sometimes inhospitable hospitality industry has yet another example of exclusionism. Will we legally have this stopped by the 2020 Olympics, or will Japan as a society allow these people to be an embarrassment?<\/p>\n

KD: I spotted a Japanese only sign near our Air BNB in Asakusa: \u201cSORRY, JAPANESE ONLY\u201d (Japanese version: None of our staff at this establishment speak foreign languages, so we refuse entry to all people from overseas (kaigai no kata)). I took it down and they put a new one up the next day. Details: Name: 100 (izakaya) (Momosaku \u767e\u4f5c)<\/em>
\nAddress: 4 Chome-7-12 Asakusa, Tait\u014d-ku, T\u014dky\u014d-to 111-0032. Picture of sign and front attached. I was wondering what I could write in Japanese as a review on Google Maps to make potential visitors aware that the izakaya has a racially discriminatory policy.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14981<\/a><\/p>\n

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8 ) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d diving and hiking tour company in Tokashikimura, Okinawa: \u201cBegin Diving Buddies\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to the hundreds of \u201cJapanese Only\u201d businesses found on the Rogues\u2019 Gallery of Exclusionary Establishments (the fieldwork for book \u201cEmbedded Racism\u201d), here is an Okinawan diving and hiking tourist agency called \u201cBegin Diving Buddies\u201d on a remote southern island called Tokashiki (35 mins by boat from Naha, Okinawa Prefecture) that refuses all \u201cforeign\u201d divers or hikers.<\/p>\n

Their excuse: \u201csafety reason and regulation\u201d (or more simply in the Japanese, just \u201csafety\u201d (anzenjou), since there are NO regulations which blanket refuse foreigners in specific for wanting to dive or walk in the mountains).<\/p>\n

\u201cDear foreign customer, we don\u2019t give you service due to safety reason and regulation.
\nWe are appreciated your understanding.\u201d\uff08\u7533\u3057\u8a33\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002\u3000\u5b89\u5168\u4e0a\u306e\u7406\u7531\u306b\u3088\u308a\uff0c\u5916\u56fd\u306e\u65b9\u306f\u304a\u53d7\u3051\u3057\u3066\u304a\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\uff09
\nBegin Diving Buddies\u2019 contact details are included. Feel free to give them a piece of your mind. You can also also let officialdom know as well. Here is Tokashiki-mura\u2019s official website, and Okinawa\u2019s official tourism writeup on the place.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14989<\/a><\/p>\n

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9) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d tourist information booth in JR Beppu Station<\/strong><\/p>\n

DB: Are you aware there is a \u201cJapanese only\u201d information booth at Beppu station? My partner and I walked in to get some information about a local onsen travel route. The woman sitting at the available desk basically refused to deal with us, and told us to go to the desk for foreigners. She initially pretended that the desk was for Japanese language help only. When we pointed out that we could speak Japanese (we had been the whole time) she shifted her excuse. The whole time she leant way back in her chair, and spoke in an extremely dismissively rude tone. In six years living in Japan I have never been treated as poorly.<\/em><\/p>\n

After we gave up and walking out half in shock I noticed the signage. The ambiguity of \u201cJapanese\u201d here covers the apparent reality that they actually will refuse to serve anybody not visibly Japanese regardless of language ability. I\u2019ll be sending a formal complaint later, but I thought I\u2019d send you the story. Here\u2019s some photos attached, taken April 6, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14954<\/a><\/p>\n

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

10) My Japan Times column JBC 111: \u201cWhite Supremacists and Japan: A Love Story\u201d (March 8, 2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported something interesting on Feb. 14: A farm put up a sign saying \u201cResist White Supremacy.\u201d And it incurred a surprising amount of online backlash. Calls for boycotts. Accusations and recriminations. One-star Facebook reviews that had nothing to do with their products.<\/p>\n

The article pondered: Who, other than a White Supremacist, would object to a message rejecting white supremacy? But if you\u2019ve ever protested racism in Japan, or read comments sections in Japanese media, you\u2019ll know these reactions have been old hat for nearly two decades. In fact, this column will argue that online intolerance and attack have been Japan exports\u2026<\/p>\n

Read the rest in the JT at https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2018\/03\/07\/issues\/white-supremacists-japan-love-story\/<\/a>
\nAnchor site with comments at
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That\u2019s all for this month. Thanks for reading! Debito Arudou
\nDEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JUNE 10, 2018 ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Table of Contents:
\nPOLICY PAROXYSMS THAT HURT PEOPLE
\n1) JT and Nikkei: Japan to offer longer stays for \u201cTrainees\u201d, but with contract lengths that void qualifying for Permanent Residency
\n2) Kyoto City Govt. subway advert has Visible Minority as poster girl for free AIDS\/STDs testing. Wrong on many levels, especially statistically.<\/p>\n

GOOD NEWS, SOMETIMES TAMPED DOWN
\n3) Mainichi: Zainichi Korean\u2019s hate speech lawsuit ends in her favor. Bravo. But Mainichi plays word games, mistranslates \u201cracial discrimination\u201d (jinshu sabetsu) into \u201cethnic discrimination\u201d in English!
\n4) Japan Supreme Court enforces Hague Convention on Int\u2019l Child Abductions (for Japanese claimants). Yet Sakura TV claims Hague is for \u201cselfish White men\u201d trying to entrap women from \u201cuncivilized countries\u201d as \u201cbabysitters\u201d
\n5) Asahi: Setagaya Ward plans to battle inter alia racial, ethnic discrimination (in specific) in a local ordinance. Progressive steps!<\/p>\n

MORE EXCLUSIONISM
\n6) Sapporo Consadole soccer player and former England Team striker Jay Bothroyd refused entry to Hokkaido Classic golf course for being \u201cnot Japanese\u201d
\n7) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d sign on Izakaya Bar \u201c100\u201d (Momosaku \u767e\u4f5c) in Asakusa, Tokyo
\n8 ) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d diving and hiking tour company in Tokashikimura, Okinawa: \u201cBegin Diving Buddies\u201d
\n9) \u201cJapanese Only\u201d tourist information booth in JR Beppu Station<\/p>\n

\u2026 and finally\u2026
\n10) My Japan Times column JBC 111: \u201cWhite Supremacists and Japan: A Love Story\u201d (March 8, 2018)<\/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-15026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","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=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15028,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}