{"id":17071,"date":"2022-06-15T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17071"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:58:17","slug":"debitos-sna-vm9-archived-pandemic-releases-antibodies-toward-non-japanese-vm9-april-20-2020-link-to-full-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17071","title":{"rendered":"Debito’s SNA VM9 archived: “Pandemic Releases Antibodies toward Non-Japanese”, April 20, 2020 (link to full text)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. This is an archive link to my regular monthly Visible Minorities column 9 at the Shingetsu News Agency<\/a>, where I talk about how Japan is reverting to exclusionary type (egged on by an unaccountable ruling elite) when dealing with minorities in pandemic times. People in Japan are generally “live and let live” and “keep calm and carry on” when it comes to treating each other. It’s Japan’s incompetent leaders (notably a self-hating haafu<\/em> American-Japanese politician named Onoda Kimi) who normalize discrimination in the name of shifting blame, I’m arguing. Here’s the column’s opening, with a link to the full text archived. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Pandemic Releases Antibodies toward Non-Japanese<\/strong>
\nBy Debito Arudou<\/strong>
\nShingetsu News Agency, Visible Minorities column, April 20, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) — Pandemics can bring out the best in people. Newton came up with theories on calculus, optics, and gravity while in quarantine<\/a>. Shakespeare wrote some of his best plays<\/a>, and Edvard Munch created iconic paintings<\/a> in isolation. Even today, we’re seeing heroes in the health care industry, volunteers sewing and distributing basic personal protective equipment, neighbors checking up on each other, and leaders stepping up their organizational skills. When the daily normal becomes a struggle between life and death, we see what people are really made of.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Japan, we\u2019re seeing much of the \u201ckeep calm and carry on\u201d mettle found in a society girded for frequent natural disasters. But that grit hasn’t trickled upward to Japan\u2019s political elite, which has ruled largely without accountability for generations, and at times like these appears particularly out of touch.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More concerned about the economics of cancelling the Tokyo Olympics than about the safety of the general public<\/a>, Japan\u2019s policymakers haven\u2019t conducted adequate Covid-19 testing, exercised timely or sufficient social distancing, or even tallied accurate infection statistics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As happened in prior outbreaks, such as SARS<\/a> and AIDS<\/a>, leaders have deflected blame onto foreigners. First China<\/a>, then outsiders in general<\/a>, starting with the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship (which, despite a third of its passengers being Japanese citizens, was even excluded from Japan’s coronavirus patient tallies<\/a>).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But treating outsiders like contagion has consequences: Society develops antibodies, and Japan\u2019s already-normalized discrimination<\/a> intensifies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Consider the case of Mio Sugita<\/a>, a Liberal Democratic Party Lower House Diet Member from Tottori…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read the full text archived at https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16031<\/a><\/p>\n

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SNA opening from VM9 two years ago: Pandemics can bring out the best in people. Newton came up with theories on calculus, optics, and gravity while in quarantine. Shakespeare wrote some of his best plays, and Edvard Munch created iconic paintings in isolation. Even today, we’re seeing heroes in the health care industry, volunteers sewing and distributing basic personal protective equipment, neighbors checking up on each other, and leaders stepping up their organizational skills. When the daily normal becomes a struggle between life and death, we see what people are really made of.<\/p>\n

In Japan, we\u2019re seeing much of the \u201ckeep calm and carry on\u201d mettle found in a society girded for frequent natural disasters. But that grit hasn’t trickled upward to Japan\u2019s political elite, which has ruled largely without accountability for generations, and at times like these appears particularly out of touch. More concerned about the economics of cancelling the Tokyo Olympics than about the safety of the general public, Japan\u2019s policymakers haven\u2019t conducted adequate Covid-19 testing, exercised timely or sufficient social distancing, or even tallied accurate infection statistics.<\/p>\n

As happened in prior outbreaks, such as SARS and AIDS, leaders have deflected blame onto foreigners. First China, then outsiders in general, starting with the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship (which, despite a third of its passengers being Japanese citizens, was even excluded from Japan’s coronavirus patient tallies). But treating outsiders like contagion has consequences: Society develops antibodies, and Japan\u2019s already-normalized discrimination intensifies. Consider the case of Mio Sugita, a Liberal Democratic Party Lower House Diet Member from Tottori…<\/p>\n

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