{"id":16504,"date":"2021-03-14T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:19:20","slug":"my-sna-vm-column-20-the-worlds-first-japanese-only-olympics-on-how-japans-new-ban-on-overseas-spectators-may-lead-to-banning-all-foreigners-out-of-linguistics-and-force-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16504","title":{"rendered":"My SNA VM column 20: “The World’s First ‘Japanese Only’ Olympics?”, on how Japan’s new ban on “overseas spectators” may lead to banning all foreigners (out of linguistics and force of habit) (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here’s an excerpt of my latest\u00a0Shingetsu News Agency<\/a> Visible Minorities column 20. Have a read before it goes behind paywall, and please subscribe if you want to see the rest of their articles — it’s but a dollar a week, and it supports progressive journalism. Enjoy. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Visible Minorities: The World’s First “Japanese Only” Olympics?<\/strong>
\nShingetsu News Agency, March 15, 2021, By Debito Arudou<\/strong><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) — Reuters and Kyodo recently reported that Japan is banning “foreign spectators” (or “overseas spectators\u201d) from the Tokyo Olympics: \u201cThe government has concluded that welcoming fans from abroad is not possible given concerns among the Japanese public over the coronavirus and the fact that more contagious variants have been detected in many countries.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blogging about this at Debito.org, I worried aloud that excluding all \u201cforeign spectators\u201d would be interpreted to mean all foreigners, including Non-Japanese living in Japan. But commenters (some of whom already have tickets or will be volunteering to help) were quick to stress that the \u201coverseas\u201d wording meant only foreign tourists, not them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But I wouldn’t be so sure about that.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Granted, the original wording in Japanese is kaigai kara no ippan kankyaku (regular spectators from overseas), not “foreigners\u201d (gaikokujin). But words matter, especially when you’re categorizing people, and doing it wrong will lead to discrimination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think Japan will do it wrong, due to linguistics and force of habit…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/03\/15\/the-worlds-first-japanese-only-olympics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(Read a rough draft of the contents of this article before it became my SNA column at https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16480<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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UPDATE MARCH 20, 2021<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0The NYT reports that it\u2019s a done deal now. The IOC has approved the exclusion of all \u201cspectators from overseas\u201d. And it\u2019s just being passed off as a \u201cconcession to the realities of the pandemic\u201d. Its possibly problematic enforcement in terms of NJ Residents is not touched upon — more focus is on the plight of overseas ticket holders. \u2014 Debito<\/p>\n

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Spectators From Overseas Are Barred From Tokyo Olympics
\nThe move, announced Saturday, is a significant concession to the realities of the pandemic, even as organizers remain determined to hold the Games this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Motoko Rich and Ben Dooley
\nNew York Times, March 20, 2021
\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/20\/world\/asia\/tokyo-olympics-spectators.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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JOC\u2019s official statement on this:<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE GAMES
\nStatement on Overseas Spectators for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020
\nJapan Olympic Committee 20 MAR 2021, courtesy of BM
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/tokyo2020.org\/en\/news\/statement-on-overseas-spectators-for-the-olympic-and-paralympic-games-tokyo-2020<\/a><\/p>\n

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SNA (Tokyo) — Reuters and Kyodo recently reported that Japan is banning “foreign spectators” (or “overseas spectators\u201d) from the Tokyo Olympics: \u201cThe government has concluded that welcoming fans from abroad is not possible given concerns among the Japanese public over the coronavirus and the fact that more contagious variants have been detected in many countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blogging about this at Debito.org, I worried aloud that excluding all \u201cforeign spectators\u201d would be interpreted to mean all foreigners, including Non-Japanese living in Japan. But commenters (some of whom already have tickets or will be volunteering to help) were quick to stress that the \u201coverseas\u201d wording meant only foreign tourists, not them.<\/p>\n

But I wouldn’t be so sure about that.<\/p>\n

Granted, the original wording in Japanese is kaigai kara no ippan kankyaku (regular spectators from overseas), not “foreigners\u201d (gaikokujin). But words matter, especially when you’re categorizing people, and doing it wrong will lead to discrimination. <\/p>\n

I think Japan will do it wrong, due to linguistics and force of habit…
\nRest at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/03\/15\/the-worlds-first-japanese-only-olympics\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,43,36,22,34,33,42,50,20,12,73,4,13,11,64,17,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-academia","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-g8-summit","category-gaiatsu","category-history","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sitys","category-sport","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504","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=16504"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16525,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions\/16525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}