{"id":16835,"date":"2021-09-20T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16835"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:28:05","slug":"my-sna-visible-minorities-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16835","title":{"rendered":"My SNA Visible Minorities 26: “The ‘Inconceivable’ Racial Discrimination Law”: Japan\u2019s human rights reports to the United Nations are a case study in official dishonesty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visible Minorities: The “Inconceivable” Racial Discrimination Law<\/strong>
\nJapan\u2019s human rights reports to the United Nations are a case study in official dishonesty.<\/strong>
\nBy Debito Arudou, Shingetsu News Agency, September 20, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

SNA: The signature function of the United Nations is to promote world peace, and one way to do that is to encourage ethical standards of behavior from its member countries. They get people to agree on those norms and standards through signing international treaties.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the standards that matters most is human rights practices. After all, countries which want to belong to the respected club of \u201ccivilized\u201d countries are expected to sign the treaties covering a whole host of noble issues: the elimination of torture; the protection of women, children, and people with disabilities; and the protections of people in general in terms of economic, political, social, civil, and political rights. Signatories are expected to submit periodical reports (usually about every two years) to UN Committees to demonstrate how they are progressing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan has signed most of those treaties<\/a>. My favorite one, of course, is the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which protects people, especially our Visible Minorities, against discrimination by \u201crace, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin.\u201d But getting Japan to actually abide by CERD is one of the hobby horses I\u2019ve been riding for decades.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When Japan signed the CERD in 1995, it explicitly agreed to \u201cprohibit and bring to an end, by all appropriate means, including legislation as required by circumstances, racial discrimination,\u201d and they were to do it \u201cwithout delay.\u201d Yet more than a quarter century later, Japan still has no national law against racial discrimination…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So when called upon to justify its record of nasty treatment of its foreign, ethnic, historical, and visible minorities, how does Japan get away with it? By delaying, of course. Let\u2019s take a look at the last time Japan submitted its Periodic Report<\/a> on the Implementation of the CERD, and reveal its pattern of reporting in bad faith…<\/em><\/strong>
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SNA: The signature function of the United Nations is to promote world peace, and one way to do that is to encourage ethical standards of behavior from its member countries. They get people to agree on those norms and standards through signing international treaties. <\/p>\n

One of the standards that matters most is human rights practices. After all, countries which want to belong to the respected club of \u201ccivilized\u201d countries are expected to sign the treaties covering a whole host of noble issues: the elimination of torture; the protection of women, children, and people with disabilities; and the protections of people in general in terms of economic, political, social, civil, and political rights. Signatories are expected to submit periodical reports (usually about every two years) to UN Committees to demonstrate how they are progressing. <\/p>\n

Japan has signed most of those treaties. My favorite one, of course, is the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which protects people, especially our Visible Minorities, against discrimination by \u201crace, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin.\u201d But getting Japan to actually abide by CERD is one of the hobby horses I\u2019ve been riding for decades. <\/p>\n

When Japan signed the CERD in 1995, it explicitly agreed to \u201cprohibit and bring to an end, by all appropriate means, including legislation as required by circumstances, racial discrimination,\u201d and they were to do it \u201cwithout delay.\u201d Yet more than a quarter century later, Japan still has no national law against racial discrimination…<\/p>\n

So when called upon to justify its record of nasty treatment of its foreign, ethnic, historical, and visible minorities, how does Japan get away with it? By delaying, of course. Let\u2019s take a look at the last time Japan submitted its Periodic Report on the Implementation of the CERD, and reveal its pattern of reporting in bad faith…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,75,28,18,36,22,19,34,50,52,20,5,26,4,60,2,11,66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-japanese-only-signs","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-education","category-exclusionism","category-gaiatsu","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-otaru-onsen-lawsuit","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-refugees","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835","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=16835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}