{"id":17096,"date":"2022-06-29T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17096"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:14:51","slug":"archiving-my-sna-vm12-a-despotic-bridge-too-far-debitos-sna-visible-minorities-column-12-on-japans-racist-blanket-ban-on-foreign-resident-re-entry-july-20-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17096","title":{"rendered":"Archiving my SNA VM12 \u201cA Despotic Bridge Too Far\u201d, on Japan\u2019s racist blanket ban on Foreign Resident re-entry, July 20, 2020 (link to full text)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Archiving the full text of my SNA VM 12, which is a good time capsule of how awful Japan has been towards its foreign residents during Covid. \u00a0A link to the full text below. \u00a0Enjoy. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Visible Minorities Column 12: A Despotic Bridge Too Far<\/strong>
\nBy Debito Arudou, Shingetsu News Agency, July 20, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2020\/07\/20\/visible-minorities-a-despotic-bridge-too-far\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SNA (Tokyo) — How bad does it have to get? I\u2019m talking about Japan\u2019s cruelty and meanness towards its Non-Japanese residents. How bad before people think to step in and stop it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think we now have an answer to that due to Japan\u2019s recent policy excluding only foreigners from re-entry at its border<\/a>, even if they\u2019ve lived here for decades, as a by-product of the Covid-19 pandemic. Japanese re-entrants get let in after testing and quarantine; no other G7 country excludes all foreigners only<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Consequently, many Non-Japanese residents found themselves stranded overseas, separated from their Japanese families, lives and livelihoods, watching their investments dry up and visa clocks run out without recourse. Or perhaps found themselves stranded within Japan, as family members abroad died, and the prospect of attending their funeral or taking care of personal matters in person would mean exile.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, protests against this policy have been unusually mainstream, including institutions who have been for generations largely silent regarding other forms of discrimination towards foreigners in Japan. Consider these examples of how institutionalized and embedded racism is in Japan<\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re probably aware that Japan has long advertised itself as a \u201cmonocultural, homogeneous society,\u201d denying that minorities, racial or ethnic, exist within it. But did you know that Japan still refuses to include Non-Japanese residents as \u201cpeople\u201d in its official population tallies<\/a>? Or to list them on official family registries as \u201cspouses\u201d of Japanese<\/a>? Or that Japan\u2019s constitution expressly reserves equality under the law for Japanese citizens (kokumin) in its Japanese translation? This complicates things for all Non-Japanese residents<\/a> to this day…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Full text now archived at\u00a0https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16172<\/a><\/p>\n

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SNA (Tokyo) — How bad does it have to get? I\u2019m talking about Japan\u2019s cruelty and meanness towards its Non-Japanese residents. How bad before people think to step in and stop it?<\/p>\n

I think we now have an answer to that due to Japan\u2019s recent policy excluding only foreigners from re-entry at its border, even if they\u2019ve lived here for decades, as a by-product of the Covid-19 pandemic. Japanese re-entrants get let in after testing and quarantine; no other G7 country excludes all foreigners only.<\/p>\n

Consequently, many Non-Japanese residents found themselves stranded overseas, separated from their Japanese families, lives and livelihoods, watching their investments dry up and visa clocks run out without recourse. Or perhaps found themselves stranded within Japan, as family members abroad died, and the prospect of attending their funeral or taking care of personal matters in person would mean exile.<\/p>\n

However, protests against this policy have been unusually mainstream, including institutions who have been for generations largely silent regarding other forms of discrimination towards foreigners in Japan. Consider these examples of how institutionalized and embedded racism is in Japan:<\/p>\n

You\u2019re probably aware that Japan has long advertised itself as a \u201cmonocultural, homogeneous society,\u201d denying that minorities, racial or ethnic, exist within it. But did you know that Japan still refuses to include Non-Japanese residents as \u201cpeople\u201d in its official population tallies? Or to list them on official family registries as \u201cspouses\u201d of Japanese? Or that Japan\u2019s constitution expressly reserves equality under the law for Japanese citizens (kokumin) in its Japanese translation? This complicates things for all Non-Japanese residents to this day…
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