{"id":16010,"date":"2020-04-08T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16010"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:38:47","slug":"more-business-as-usual-as-nj-residents-are-separated-and-othered-from-fellow-taxpayers-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16010","title":{"rendered":"COVID-inspired racism as NJ Residents are separated and “othered” from fellow Japan taxpayers by Dietmembers and bureaucrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. We are witnessing the logical extension of generations of Wajin<\/a> not seeing “foreigners” as part of Japan, i.e., where minorities are apparently nonexistent in Japan’s postwar-created “monocultural, monoethnic homogeneous society” narrative<\/a>. It thus follows that Non-Japanese regardless of residency status in Japan are perpetually classified and treated as “guests<\/a>“, subject to the whims of the Wajin majority to grant them any human rights<\/a>, legal status<\/a>, or access to public services<\/a>. \u00a0Book “Embedded Racism”<\/a> has taken up this issue in great detail.<\/p>\n

Now in this time of pandemic crisis, we’re seeing people revert to type and say that “foreigners don’t deserve the same government support as Japanese”, even though NJ Residents are paying taxes and living in Japan like any other people. The most recent manifestation has been self-hating<\/a>\u00a0Upper House Dietmember<\/a> Onoda Kimi<\/a>, an American-Japanese (father is American<\/a>) representing Okayama (this place seems to spawn racists<\/a>). \u00a0She argues on Twitter that NJ Residents should not be granted the same access to proposed government cash subsidies for taxpayers in financial hardship.<\/p>\n

As sent from a Debito.org Reader. \u00a0More information at the Change.org petition link:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/onoda_kimi\/status\/1244619519944867841?s=11\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
Hello Debito,<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m a NJ residing here in Japan from 12 years. I think you might find this interesting. Just go to her Twitter account to see the whole discussion. There\u2019s also a petition going on asking this idiot to step down:\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/\u81ea\u7531\u6c11\u4e3b\u515a-\u5dee\u5225\u8b70\u54e1-\u5c0f\u91ce\u7530\u7d00\u7f8e-\u81ea\u7531\u6c11\u4e3b\u515a-\u6c0f\u306e\u8b70\u54e1\u8f9e\u8077\u3092\u6c42\u3081\u307e\u3059?recruiter=842277911<\/a><\/div>\n
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On top of that there’s Lower House<\/a> Dietmember Sugita Mio<\/a>, hailing from Tottori, who is also tweeting sophistic arguments that financial support for Non-Japanese citizens in Japan is the responsibility of their respective countries, not the GOJ, completely overlooking their legally-obligated tax contributions to the Japanese government’s coffers:<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/twitter.com\/miosugita\/status\/1247300286600732672\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n

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Sugita is the same bigot who argued “there is no justification for efforts by the state and municipalities to invest taxpayers\u2019 money into policies supporting same-sex couples because \u201cthese men and women don\u2019t bear children \u2014 in other words, they are \u2018unproductive.<\/a>\u2019\u201d (Japan Times<\/a>), so it’s entirely within character for her to shut out another set of minorities in Japanese society.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just Japan’s pandering political elite. \u00a0Differentiating, “othering”, and subordinating NJ from Wajin is part of the normalized Embedded Racism<\/a> within Japan’s bureaucracy and law enforcement as well:<\/p>\n

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Hi Debito,<\/strong><\/div>\n
Apparently, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare makes a clear distinction between Japanese and foreigner when it comes to coronavirus infection.<\/em><\/div>\n
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In this page we can see that they clearly specify that 1,099 of the 1,494 infected are Japanese.<\/em><\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.mhlw.go.jp\/stf\/newpage_10636.html<\/a><\/div>\n
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The relevant text is here:<\/div>\n
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Hi Debito,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan’s proclivity for arbitrary detention continues — here we have a PR who was detained for 19 hours while looking foreign during a pandemic:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Iranian permanent resident held for 19 hours at Japan airport amid virus fears<\/strong><\/p>\n

<https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20200330\/p2a\/00m\/0fe\/016000c<\/a>><\/p>\n

“According to the man, he was tested for infection with the novel coronavirus before then having his residency permits inspected by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan’s Narita Airport District Immigration Office. He was forced to spend 19 hours overnight under its jurisdiction without being offered food or water, and when the ordeal was over the authorities sought a total of 60,000 yen in fees for use of the room he was detained in and other costs.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Regards, -JK<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So there’s some more Debito.org grist. \u00a0To be sure, this sort of stuff is happening worldwide<\/a>. \u00a0But Debito.org’s mission is to catalog Japan’s hand in it, so there you go. \u00a0Debito Arudou Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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We are witnessing the logical extension of generations of Wajin not seeing “foreigners” as part of Japan, i.e., where minorities are apparently nonexistent in Postwar Japan’s “monocultural, monoethnic homogeneous society” narrative. It thus follows that Non-Japanese regardless of residency status in Japan are perpetually classified and treated as “guests”, subject to the whims of the Wajin majority to grant them any human rights, legal status, or access to public services. \u00a0Book “Embedded Racism” has taken up this issue in great detail.<\/p>\n

Now in this time of pandemic crisis, we’re seeing people revert to type and say that “foreigners don’t deserve the same government support as Japanese”, even though NJ Residents are paying taxes and living in Japan like any other people. The most recent manifestation has been self-hating\u00a0Upper House Dietmember Onoda Kimi, an American-Japanese (father is American) representing Okayama (this place seems to spawn racists). \u00a0She argues on Twitter that NJ Residents should not be granted the same access to proposed government cash subsidies for taxpayers in financial hardship. As does fellow Lower House Dietmember Sugita Mio (who has come out as anti-LGBT in the past). And then there are the government agencies listed below who are resorting to SOP to differentiate, “other”, and subordinate NJ Residents as a matter of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,36,52,5,12,4,14,11,65,64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-bad-social-science","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-racist-images-in-media","category-sitys","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010","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=16010"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16023,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}