{"id":16656,"date":"2021-05-17T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16656"},"modified":"2021-05-17T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:43:38","slug":"my-sna-visible-minorities-column-22-interrogating-the-discriminatory-covid-self-quarantine-scandal-may-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16656","title":{"rendered":"My SNA Visible Minorities column 22: “Interrogating the Discriminatory Covid Self-Quarantine Scandal”, May 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Hello Debito.org Newsletter Readers. This month’s SNA Visible Minorities column 22 updates us on how Japan’s discriminatory border policies disproportionately punish Non-Japanese residents, even when things that are going wrong are due to government mismanagement. Paraphrased excerpt:<\/p>\n

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\nVisible Minorities: Interrogating the Discriminatory Covid Self-Quarantine Scandal<\/strong>
\nBy Debito Arudou, May 17, 2021 (condensed intro)<\/strong><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) — Sometimes government-designed policies lack sense. Or, in places where the government is as unaccountable as Japan\u2019s, policymakers ignore cautions\u2014-or don\u2019t get cautioned at all because a docile mass media is mobilized behind a national goal. So when things go wrong, very bad things can happen, especially when punishments for noncompliance only go one way and hurt innocent people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That is what\u2019s in the cards yet again with Japan’s Covid border controls. The current policy is that if you are a resident of Japan returning from overseas, you face a mandatory self-quarantine system. Everyone, regardless of nationality, signs must notify the authorities of their current location each day. If not, authorities will contact them via Skype, WhatsApp video call, or by voice cell phone number.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are found to be breaking quarantine as a Japanese, you get your name exposed to the public. However, foreign residents will lose everything\u2014their lives, livelihoods, and anything they ever invested in Japan\u2014by getting deported. So with punishments this disproportionate, the government had better make sure nothing goes wrong. Guess what? Things are going wrong, and it’s the government’s fault…<\/em><\/strong>
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Rest is at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/05\/17\/visible-minorities-interrogating-the-discriminatory-quarantine-scandal\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Links to sources cited in the full article: \u00a0Kyodo News May 1<\/a>, Japan Times May 12<\/a>, MOFA self-quarantine pledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy! Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
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SNA (Tokyo) — Sometimes government-designed policies lack sense. Or, in places where the government is as unaccountable as Japan\u2019s, policymakers ignore cautions\u2014-or don\u2019t get cautioned at all because a docile mass media is mobilized behind a national goal. So when things go wrong, very bad things can happen, especially when punishments for noncompliance only go one way and hurt innocent people. <\/p>\n

That is what\u2019s in the cards yet again with Japan’s Covid border controls. The current policy is that if you are a resident of Japan returning from overseas, you face a mandatory self-quarantine system. Everyone, regardless of nationality, signs must notify the authorities of their current location each day. If not, authorities will contact them via Skype, WhatsApp video call, or by voice cell phone number.<\/p>\n

If you are found to be breaking quarantine as a Japanese, you get your name exposed to the public. However, foreign residents will lose everything\u2014their lives, livelihoods, and anything they ever invested in Japan\u2014by getting deported. So with punishments this disproportionate, the government had better make sure nothing goes wrong. Guess what? Things are going wrong, and it’s the government’s fault…
\nRest is at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/05\/17\/visible-minorities-interrogating-the-discriminatory-quarantine-scandal\/\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,18,36,22,34,33,5,37,73,4,13,60,11,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-human-rights","category-injustice","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sitys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656","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=16656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}