{"id":16674,"date":"2021-05-22T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:01:54","slug":"nhk-ibaraki-public-health-center-targets-foreigners-as-vectors-of-coronavirus-then-retracts-discriminatory-claims-as-misleading-and-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16674","title":{"rendered":"NHK: Ibaraki Public Health Center targets foreigners as vectors of Coronavirus, then retracts discriminatory claims as “misleading” and “inappropriate”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0There’s a bit of a flap at the moment about defeated revisions to Japan’s Immigration rules due to the awful death by official negligence of a NJ detainee, but this will take more research and write up on my part as a separate blog entry. (Debito.org Readers are already discussing it here.<\/a>). I’ll get to it shortly, as I’m deep into a different writing project right now. Meanwhile, let me put up this quickie for the record:<\/p>\n

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Ibaraki health center warns \u2018many coronavirus patients infected by foreigners\u2019<\/strong>
\nBY TOKYO REPORTER STAFF ON MAY 22, 2021, Courtesy of Niklas and TG.<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.tokyoreporter.com\/japan-news\/ibaraki-health-center-warns-many-coronavirus-patients-infected-by-foreigners\/<\/a><\/p>\n

IBARAKI (TR) \u2013 A health center in Itako City this week retracted an \u201cinappropriate\u201d advisory that stated foreigners are the source of an increase in novel coronavirus infections, reports NHK (May 22).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On May 19 and 20, the Itako Health Center distributed the notice by email to agricultural cooperatives and city halls within its jurisdiction.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The document stated, \u201cThere are many coronavirus patients likely infected by foreigners.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It advised, \u201cIf you talk to a foreigner, wear a mask. As well, please do not eat with them.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On May 21, the health center and the Ibaraki Prefectural Infectious Disease Control Division retracted the document. \u201cThe document\u2019s content was inappropriate,\u201d they said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThough we had no intention of discriminating against foreigners,\u201d the Itako Health Center told NHK, \u201cwe are sorry if any of the expressions were misleading.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shohei Sugita, a lawyer who supports the rights of foreigners, points out that Article 14 out the Constitution does not permit such distinction based on nationality since it leads to discrimination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDistinguishing between Japanese and foreigners may give the impression that infections are spreading only due to foreigners, which is very disappointing,\u201d said Sugita.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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COMMENT<\/strong>: “Misleading”?! “Inappropriate”?! “Unintentional”?! How about unscientific and discriminatory, especially for an official bureau safeguarding public health that should know better? But given what we know at Debito.org about Japan’s constant “Blame Game”, used to distract from official policy errors and scapegoat Non-Japanese for just about anything<\/a>, we could see it coming.<\/p>\n

The bigger surprise is how quickly NHK jumped on this so quickly and got it retracted. Bravo. Media watchdogs are supposed to look out for the general public, including Non-Japanese Residents (even though they generally don’t<\/a>). Please get ready to do more of the same in future. Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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TR: A health center in Itako City this week retracted an \u201cinappropriate\u201d advisory that stated foreigners are the source of an increase in novel coronavirus infections, reports NHK (May 22). On May 19 and 20, the Itako Health Center distributed the notice by email to agricultural cooperatives and city halls within its jurisdiction. The document stated, \u201cThere are many coronavirus patients likely infected by foreigners.\u201d It advised, \u201cIf you talk to a foreigner, wear a mask. As well, please do not eat with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 21, the health center and the Ibaraki Prefectural Infectious Disease Control Division retracted the document. \u201cThe document\u2019s content was inappropriate,\u201d they said. \u201cThough we had no intention of discriminating against foreigners,\u201d the Itako Health Center told NHK, \u201cwe are sorry if any of the expressions were misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n

COMMENT: “Misleading”?! “Inappropriate”?! “Unintentional”?! How about unscientific and discriminatory, especially for an official bureau safeguarding public health that should know better. But given what we know at Debito.org about Japan’s constant “Blame Game”, used to distract from official policy errors and scapegoat Non-Japanese for just about anything, we could see it coming. The bigger surprise is how quickly NHK jumped on this so quickly and got it retracted. Media watchdogs are supposed to look out for the general public, including Non-Japanese Residents. Please get ready to do more of the same in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,28,43,36,35,52,73,4,11,68,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-good-news","category-hate-speech","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-victories","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","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=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16963,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}