{"id":16974,"date":"2022-01-24T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16974"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T20:05:39","slug":"my-sna-visible-minorities-30-us-military-should-combat-japans-xenophobia-i-e-counteract-apparent-japanese-media-disinformation-about-their-bases-covid-policies-jan-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16974","title":{"rendered":"My SNA Visible Minorities 30: “US Military Should Combat Japan\u2019s Xenophobia”, i.e., counteract apparent Japanese media disinformation about their bases’ Covid policies (Jan 24, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visible Minorities Column 30: US Military Should Combat Japan\u2019s Xenophobia<\/strong>
\nSHINGETSU NEWS AGENCY, JAN 24, 2022 by DEBITO ARUDOU in COLUMN<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2022\/01\/24\/visible-minorities-us-military-should-combat-japans-xenophobia\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) \u2014 Shingetsu News Agency has reported for two years on how the Japanese government and media have gone out of their way to blame foreigners for the domestic spread of Covid. Each time we\u2019ve gone out of our way to point out that Covid was usually brought in by Japanese citizens disobeying lenient quarantines.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The government\u2019s exclusionary border policies, treating people without Japanese passports as somehow more contagious, is routinely supported neither by logic nor science.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest mutation of this narrative has been the blame targeted at US military bases in Japan for community spread.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, Japan Times reported on January 8,<\/a> stitching together wire reports from Jiji Press and Kyodo News, that \u201cUS military personnel are believed to have triggered a coronavirus resurgence in [Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima]. Many people in the three prefectures live in close proximity to American bases. Infection prevention measures taken by the US forces, which some have criticized as being too lax, are thought to be behind that explosion of cases.\u201d […]. But this is contradicted by what the US Forces Japan say are their actual policies, claiming 92-98% vaccination rates and limitations on movement.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So is the blame game grounded in facts and science? Or are these reactions to people trying to find another foreign scapegoat for the latest Covid spike? We don’t know because US Forces Japan aren’t making their practices sufficiently loud and clear. As usual.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The upshot: How US Forces Japan are yet again ignoring being used for domestic political capital is irresponsible. USFJ has the duty to recognize that what they do affects Visible Minorities in Japan, whether it be inspiring “Japanese Only” bigots to slam shop doors in their faces, or giving more ammunition to reactionaries who seek to seal off Japan\u2019s borders.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Full article at https:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2022\/01\/24\/visible-minorities-us-military-should-combat-japans-xenophobia\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Excerpt: Shingetsu News Agency has reported for two years on how the Japanese government and media have gone out of their way to blame foreigners for the domestic spread of Covid. Each time we\u2019ve gone out of our way to point out that Covid was usually brought in by Japanese citizens disobeying lenient quarantines. The government\u2019s exclusionary border policies, treating people without Japanese passports as somehow more contagious, is routinely supported neither by logic nor science. The latest mutation of this narrative has been the blame targeted at US military bases in Japan for community spread.<\/p>\n

For example, Japan Times reported on January 8, stitching together wire reports from Jiji Press and Kyodo News, that \u201cUS military personnel are believed to have triggered a coronavirus resurgence in [Okinawa, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima]. Many people in the three prefectures live in close proximity to American bases. Infection prevention measures taken by the US forces, which some have criticized as being too lax, are thought to be behind that explosion of cases.\u201d […]. But this is contradicted by what the US Forces Japan say are their actual policies, with 92-98% vaccination rates and limitations on movement.<\/p>\n

So is the blame game grounded in facts and science? Or are these reactions to people trying to find another foreign scapegoat for the latest Covid spike? We don’t know because US Forces Japan aren’t making their practices sufficiently loud and clear. As usual.<\/p>\n

The upshot: How US Forces Japan are yet again ignoring being used for domestic political capital is irresponsible. USFJ has the duty to recognize that what they do affects Visible Minorities in Japan, whether it be inspiring “Japanese Only” bigots to slam shop doors in their faces, or giving more ammunition to reactionaries who seek to seal off Japan\u2019s borders.
\nFull article at https:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2022\/01\/24\/visible-minorities-us-military-should-combat-japans-xenophobia\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,75,18,43,36,22,33,50,52,5,12,73,4,14,13,11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-japanese-only-signs","category-academia","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-gaiatsu","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-racist-images-in-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974","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=16974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}