{"id":16246,"date":"2020-09-21T00:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16246"},"modified":"2020-09-21T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:09:24","slug":"debito-org-newsletter-sept-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16246","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER SEPT 22, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER SEPT 22, 2020<\/strong>
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1) Reuters: Tennis star Osaka Naomi \u201ca Jesse Owens of Japan\u201d. I don\u2019t think the comparison is apt, yet. She should also speak out for Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Updated petition against Japan Foreign Resident Re-Entry Ban: Still discriminatory: Requires extra hurdles for all NJ only, including extra GOJ permissions and overseas Covid tests<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Debito\u2019s SNA Visible Minorities 13: \u201cJapan\u2019s Cult of Miserable Happy\u201d, Aug 24, 2020, questioning whether \u201comotenashi\u201d Japan is actually all that hospitable to anyone, what with such a strong \u201cculture of no\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Debito Arudou, Ph.D. (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org Twitter @arudoudebito)
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1) Reuters: Tennis star Osaka Naomi \u201ca Jesse Owens of Japan\u201d. I don\u2019t think the comparison is apt, yet. She should also speak out for Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I support the fact that Osaka Naomi is bringing to light racial injustice in the world, and is willing to take a stand in public to do so. However, this is a stand against racial injustice in another country. Not in Japan.<\/p>\n

This is an easier target because a) Japan has long taught about racism in other countries (particularly America\u2019s) as part of a narrative that racism \u201chappens elsewhere, not here\u201d, so this unfortunately plays into Japan\u2019s grander deflection strategy; and b) this protest doesn\u2019t imperil her sponsorship in Japan, where her money is coming from.<\/p>\n

Yet racism, as this blog and my research have covered for more than a quarter century, is alive and \u201cpracticed undisturbed\u201d (according to the United Nations) in Japan. That\u2019s worth protesting. So is racism in America, of course. But there are plenty of high-profile voices involved in that already. What is sorely needed is someone standing up for the equal and nondiscriminative treatment of, for example, Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities (a group Osaka is a member of).<\/p>\n

Others have tried, such as VM Japanese beauty queens Miyamoto Ariana and Yoshikawa Priyanka, and their careers in Japan suffered as a result. Osaka Naomi, as Debito.org has argued before, has a stronger immunity card to criticize Japan if she so chooses. It\u2019s still unclear she will ever choose to.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16230<\/a><\/p>\n

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2) Updated petition against Japan Foreign Resident Re-Entry Ban: Still discriminatory: Requires extra hurdles for all NJ only, including extra GOJ permissions and overseas Covid tests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Petition<\/strong>: Since September 1, 2020, all legal non-Japanese residents of Japan can leave and reenter the country. This is a very important and uplifting development. With this most recent easing of restrictions, almost all points of this petition were met.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, one vital point of this petition (equal treatment of all legal residents at the border regardless of nationality) is still not fulfilled. Only non-Japanese residents have to apply for a Receipt for Request of Re-entry at the Immigration Services Agency before departing from Japan. No explanation in given why this is necessary and why a valid residence card and the normal reentry permit is not enough. Furthermore, only non-Japanese residents (except for diplomats and special permanent residents) have to take a PCR test abroad within 72 hours before the departure for Japan. However, this requirement can nobody meet who stays in a country which does not test people without symptoms or does not deliver the results on time. And anyway, the PCR test at the Japanese port of entry should suffice. Residents of Japan have Japanese health insurance. This is why they are entitled to treatment in Japan if the PCR test at the Japanese airport should turn out to be positive.<\/em><\/p>\n

Requesting negative PCR tests before going to Japan should be limited to non-Japanese who want to newly enter Japan. This requirement should not be bestowed upon legal residents, who have their livelihoods already in Japan. Therefore, this petition is going to continue until the requirement of PCR tests abroad is abolished for all legal residents of Japan regardless of nationality.<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16227<\/a><\/p>\n

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3) Debito\u2019s SNA Visible Minorities 13: \u201cJapan\u2019s Cult of Miserable Happy\u201d, Aug 24, 2020, questioning whether \u201comotenashi\u201d Japan is actually all that hospitable to anyone, what with such a strong \u201cculture of no\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

SNA<\/strong>: These are sobering times for Japan fans. Thanks to the pandemic, even the most starry-eyed and enfranchised foreigners are having their bubbles burst, realizing that their status in Japan, no matter how hard-earned, matters not one whit to Japan\u2019s policymakers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As covered elsewhere, current Immigration policy dictates that Japanese citizens can leave and re-enter the country at will, as long as they subject themselves to testing and quarantine upon return. But that doesn\u2019t apply to Japan\u2019s resident non-citizens, who still generally get barred from re-entry\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Targeting all foreigners only as vessels of virus makes it clearer than ever that Japan\u2019s requirements for membership are racist. It strips yet another layer of credibility from the \u201cCool Japan\u201d trope, such as the overhyped \u201cculture of hospitality\u201d (omotenashi) during Japan\u2019s buildup to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since this is an opportune time to remove layers of lies from Japan\u2019s narrative, let\u2019s address another one: That Japan is an unusually hospitable place\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16218<\/a><\/p>\n

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That’s all for this month. Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n

Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
\nDEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER SEPT 22, 2020 ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Table of Contents:
\n1) Reuters: Tennis star Osaka Naomi \u201ca Jesse Owens of Japan\u201d. I don\u2019t think the comparison is apt, yet. She should also speak out for Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities.
\n2) Updated petition against Japan Foreign Resident Re-Entry Ban: Still discriminatory: Requires extra hurdles for all NJ only, including extra GOJ permissions and overseas Covid tests
\n3) Debito\u2019s SNA Visible Minorities 13: \u201cJapan\u2019s Cult of Miserable Happy\u201d, Aug 24, 2020, questioning whether \u201comotenashi\u201d Japan is actually all that hospitable to anyone, what with such a strong \u201cculture of no\u201d<\/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-16246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246","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=16246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}