{"id":15622,"date":"2019-04-24T08:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2019-04-25T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:52:05","slug":"kyodo-half-of-foreigners-in-tokyo-experienced-discrimination-aric-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15622","title":{"rendered":"Kyodo: Half of foreigners in Tokyo experienced discrimination: ARIC survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0At the risk of calling forth “Captain Obvious<\/a>” or “Obviousman<\/a>“, here’s a survey saying that half of Tokyo-resident NJs have experienced discrimination; it even made the news. \u00a0The survey is not quite on the scale or scope of the previous Ministry of Justice one Debito.org covered<\/a> (and I wrote two Japan Times columns about here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>) in 2017, since it has a smaller sample size, has a more targeted surveyed group, and is confined to the Tokyo area. \u00a0But it’s nevertheless better than the very biased one the GOJ did twelve years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also deserves a mention on Debito.org as it quantifies the degree and patterns of discriminatory behavior out there. \u00a0ARIC, the group doing the survey<\/a>, is on the right track recording issues of domestic racism and hate speech. \u00a0Let’s have more surveys in other places, and get data quantified and triangulated nationwide. \u00a0Enough of these, and recorded isolated incidents eventually merge into patterns, and ultimately concretely-measured trends that justify public policy fixes. \u00a0Debito Arudou Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Half of foreigners in Tokyo experienced discrimination: survey<\/strong>
\nThe Japan Times and Mainichi Shinbun, April 17, 2019, Courtesy of JR<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2019\/04\/17\/national\/social-issues\/half-foreign-nationals-tokyo-experience-discrimination-survey-shows\/<\/a><\/p>\n

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Nearly half of the foreigners living in Tokyo have experienced racial discrimination, according to a survey released Tuesday by a civic group.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the survey conducted by the Anti Racism Information Center<\/a>, a group organized by scholars, activists and university students, 167 of 340 respondents including students said that they have suffered discriminatory treatment such as being told not to talk in a language other than Japanese.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Some working as retail shop cashiers said customers asked for Japanese cashiers, according to the face-to-face questionnaire survey conducted in February and March in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among them, a Nepalese man who works at a drugstore said one customer told him that he or she does not like to see a foreigner working as a cashier and asked for someone else.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Chinese respondent who works at a convenience store said that a colleague told the respondent not to speak Chinese when the respondent was asked for directions by a Chinese-speaking customer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There were also cases where foreigners had apartment rental applications rejected. Some said they were denied entry into stores, but none of the respondents took their case to a public office dealing with such issues.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryang Yong Song, a representative of the civic group, told a press conference that foreigners living in Japan tend to “end up letting (their discriminatory experiences) drop.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The government should conduct a survey to show what kind of discrimination foreigners face,” Ryang said, calling on schools and employers to deal more proactively with discrimination and establish a mechanism to involve public officials in addressing the problems.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With the country’s new visa system having started this month to bring in more foreign workers to address the deepening labor crunch, there have been criticisms about the government’s ability to offer consultation to foreign residents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kyodo: TOKYO (Kyodo) — Nearly half of the foreigners living in Tokyo have experienced racial discrimination, according to a survey released Tuesday by a civic group. In the survey conducted by the Anti Racism Information Center, a group organized by scholars, activists and university students, 167 of 340 respondents including students said that they have suffered discriminatory treatment such as being told not to talk in a language other than Japanese. Some working as retail shop cashiers said customers asked for Japanese cashiers, according to the face-to-face questionnaire survey conducted in February and March in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. Among them, a Nepalese man who works at a drugstore said one customer told him that he or she does not like to see a foreigner working as a cashier and asked for someone else. A Chinese respondent who works at a convenience store said that a colleague told the respondent not to speak Chinese when the respondent was asked for directions by a Chinese-speaking customer. There were also cases where foreigners had apartment rental applications rejected. Some said they were denied entry into stores, but none of the respondents took their case to a public office dealing with such issues.<\/p>\n

COMMENT: This survey is not quite on the scale or scope of the previous Ministry of Justice one Debito.org covered (and I wrote two Japan Times columns about) in 2017, since it has a smaller sample size, has a more targeted surveyed group, and is confined to the Tokyo area. \u00a0But it’s nevertheless better than the very biased one the GOJ did twelve years ago. \u00a0It also deserves a mention on Debito.org as it quantifies the degree and patterns of discriminatory behavior out there. \u00a0ARIC, the group doing the survey, is on the right track recording issues of domestic racism and hate speech. \u00a0Let’s have more surveys in other places, and get data quantified and triangulated nationwide. \u00a0Enough of these, and recorded isolated incidents eventually merge into patterns, and ultimately concretely-measured trends that justify public policy fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,28,43,34,5,12,16,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-bad-business-practices","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622","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=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15638,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}