{"id":16426,"date":"2021-02-15T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16426"},"modified":"2021-02-15T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:53:58","slug":"sna-vm-19-yoshiro-moris-overdue-comeuppance-feb-15-2021-on-how-the-former-japan-olympics-chair-melded-misogyny-with-racism-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16426","title":{"rendered":"SNA VM 19: “Yoshiro Mori\u2019s Overdue Comeuppance”, Feb 15, 2021, on how the former Japan Olympics Chair melded misogyny with racism — for decades!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. My latest Shingetsu News Agency column recounts former Prime Minister and professional bigot Mori Yoshiro’s tenure as Japan representative, and the mystery behind Japan’s consistent waste of talent in favor of hopelessly incompetent and elitist old men. Enjoy. Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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\nVisible Minorities 19: Yoshiro Mori\u2019s Overdue Comeuppance<\/strong>
\nBy Debito Arudou, Shingetsu News Agency, February 15, 2021<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/02\/15\/visible-minorities-yoshiro-moris-overdue-comeuppance\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) — When I started writing this month’s column, Yoshiro Mori, an 83-year-old fossil of Japanese politics, was still president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee, where he had come under fire for comments claiming that women in leadership positions \u201ctalk too much<\/a>,\u201d cluttering meetings with competitive chatter. He has since resigned, but in the wake has come much media commentary about Japan\u2019s sexism and women\u2019s disenfranchisement.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photos appeared showing meetings of top-level Japan business organizations (such as Keidanren<\/a>) that look like old-boy clubs. Pundits noted that Japan has slipped in the World Economic Forum\u2019s gender-empowerment index<\/a> to 121st place out of 153 countries measured<\/a> (the lowest amongst the developed countries, behind China, Zimbabwe, Brunei, and Myanmar). And my favorite: Japan idiotically sending a man (Kono Taro) to the world\u2019s first meeting of women foreign ministers<\/a> in 2018.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

All this has occurred despite former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s much-touted policy of unlocking the women workforce as the \u201cgreatest potential for the growth of the Japanese economy.\u201d He would create \u201ca society in which women can shine<\/a>.\u201d Mori\u2019s sexist comments make clear that hasn\u2019t happened.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s focus on what Mori himself represented: the worst of Japan\u2019s politics, melding misogyny with racism…<\/em><\/strong>
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Rest is at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/02\/15\/visible-minorities-yoshiro-moris-overdue-comeuppance\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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SNA: When I started writing this month’s column, Yoshiro Mori, an 83-year-old fossil of Japanese politics, was still president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee, where he had come under fire for comments claiming that women in leadership positions \u201ctalk too much,\u201d cluttering meetings with competitive chatter. He has since resigned, but in the wake has come much media commentary about Japan\u2019s sexism and women\u2019s disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n

Photos appeared showing meetings of top-level Japan business organizations (such as Keidanren) that look like old-boy clubs. Pundits noted that Japan has slipped in the World Economic Forum\u2019s gender-empowerment index to 121st place out of 153 countries measured (the lowest amongst the developed countries, behind China, Zimbabwe, Brunei, and Myanmar). And my favorite: Japan idiotically sending a man (Kono Taro) to the world\u2019s first meeting of women foreign ministers in 2018.<\/p>\n

All this has occurred despite former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s much-touted policy of unlocking the women workforce as the \u201cgreatest potential for the growth of the Japanese economy.\u201d He would create \u201ca society in which women can shine.\u201d Mori\u2019s sexist comments make clear that hasn\u2019t happened. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s focus on what Mori himself represented: the worst of Japan\u2019s politics, melding misogyny with racism…<\/p>\n

Rest is at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/02\/15\/visible-minorities-yoshiro-moris-overdue-comeuppance\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,28,18,36,22,34,33,42,50,35,52,20,26,73,4,14,13,60,11,17,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-g8-summit","category-gaiatsu","category-good-news","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sport","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426","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=16426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16427,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426\/revisions\/16427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}