{"id":17764,"date":"2026-09-13T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17764"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:41:28","slug":"my-shingetsu-news-agency-vm-column-78-kimi-onoda-and-the-trauma-of-history-on-how-the-cabinet-minister-in-charge-of-policy-towards-foreigners-is-basically-removing-them-from-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=17764","title":{"rendered":"My Shingetsu News Agency VM 78: “Kimi Onoda and the Trauma of History”, on how the Cabinet Minister in charge of policy towards \u201cforeigners\u201d is basically removing them from Japan.\u00a0 I see it as the natural outcome of Japan\u2019s legacy of abuse towards its Visible Minorities."},"content":{"rendered":"

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SNA Visible Minorities column 78: \u00a0 KIMI ONODA AND THE TRAUMA OF HISTORY<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Subtitle<\/span>:\u00a0 The Cabinet Minister in charge of policy towards \u201cforeigners\u201d is basically removing them from Japan.\u00a0 I see it as the natural outcome of Japan\u2019s legacy of abuse towards its Visible Minorities.<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Debito Arudou.\u00a0 Shingetsu News Agency September 13, 2026<\/h4>\n

Courtesy https:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2026\/09\/13\/visible-minorities-kimi-onoda-and-the-trauma-of-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Making much news in foreign quarters is Kimi Onoda<\/a>, Minister for a \u201cSociety of Well-Ordered and Harmonious Coexistence with Foreign Nationals\u201d since October 2025.\u00a0 She is the public face spearheading policies making it more difficult Japan\u2019s foreign population to stay.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon, foreign residents who want to live longer-term or permanently in Japan must prove that they consistently make more than the average Japanese household\u2019s income.\u00a0 Even if they manage that, there will be stringent and tested Japanese language requirements, fees for visa renewals jumping more than 12-fold from 6000 yen to 75,000 yen, and Permanent Resident fees skyrocketing 20-fold to 200,000 yen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s a weird requirement, according to the Mainichi Shimbun<\/a>, \u201cthat they be expected to receive a future pension comparable to that of someone who had paid into the employees\u2019 pension system for 30 years at that income level.\u201d\u00a0 Whatever that means.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Onoda is a peculiar messenger for this policy.\u00a0 A Chicago-born daughter of an American father, she is a subset of Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities called a haafu (half-Japanese).\u00a0 As such, one might expect her to be a bit more sensitive towards other diverse Japanese, as she has faced their hardships herself.\u00a0 Abandoned by her father and educated in Japan\u2019s homogenizing education system, she admits to growing up in poverty and being bullied for \u201clooking foreign.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, compassion for diversity is not Onoda\u2019s thing.\u00a0 She has made easily falsifiable comments about foreign crime and incarceration rates, plus defamatory claims about foreigners damaging Japanese society and the social safety net.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That nastiness is embedded in her policy justifications, claiming these revisions will prevent foreigners becoming public welfare recipients now or in old age. \u00a0(Even though that\u2019s why everyone pays into the system in the first place.)\u00a0 And it was also seen when Onoda got snippy about the status of Permanent Residency (eijuken) no longer being \u201cpermanent,\u201d pedantically saying is not a \u201cright\u201d but a \u201cpermit<\/a>\u201d for foreigners.\u00a0 So it\u2019s just another revocable visa.\u00a0 One could be forgiven for misinterpreting, since the word for \u201cright\u201d (ken) is embedded in the official status.\u00a0 Thus Onoda reveals a cruel assumption that foreigners can never truly earn the \u201cright\u201d to permanence no matter how long they contribute.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, there\u2019s Onoda\u2019s disdain for accountability.\u00a0 According to scholar and journalist David McNeill, she lays out her policies in curt and defensive language \u201cwith little nuance<\/a>\u2026 and gives every impression that she dislikes journalists<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 She only holds carefully scripted press conferences, refuses to comment on questions she doesn\u2019t like, and eschews debate or explanation about her policy positions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why such bile and personal animus in her public exercise of power?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While I am not a psychologist, as a columnist I can still hypothesize about Onoda\u2019s motivations.\u00a0 My theory is that this is what happens when Japanese of diverse roots, bullied and scarred by their inability to fit into Japan\u2019s \u201chomogeneous society\u201d narrative, become bullies themselves.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This essay will now discuss the history of Japan\u2019s Postwar \u201chomogeneous society\u201d narrative, demonstrate how it stigmatized Japan\u2019s its Postwar mixed-blood Japanese children, and argue that Onoda\u2019s bile is a product of that.\u00a0 Instead of showing support and solidarity for her haafu peers, she went in the other direction, overcompensating to prove herself as a \u201creal Japanese\u201d by pandering to the \u201cpure-Japanese\u201d adherents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

JAPAN\u2019S TOXIC POSTWAR \u201cHOMOGENEITY\u201d NARRATIVE<\/h3>\n

The following is adapted from my book Embedded Racism: Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination<\/u>(Lexington Press, Second Edition), p. 43-5:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

During the American Postwar Occupation (1945-52), Japan was shedding the trappings of its empire, sending its imported conquered workers back to their countries of origin, and overwriting the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere\u2019s narrative of \u201cliberating fellow Asians from Western colonialism\u201d with a \u201chomogeneous, island-nation Japan\u201d narrative.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But getting in the way of the \u201cmonocultural, monoethnic, pure-blooded Japan\u201d mantra were the mixed-blood Japanese children from Japanese relationships with American soldiers.\u00a0 Stigmatized as byproducts of the oldest profession, these children where soon differentiated in the vernacular with labels and racialized epithets (konketsuji, ainoko, h\u0101fu, etc.),<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The national government decided to address this, but did it so ham-fistedly that, according to scholar Hwaji Shin (2010), it set the template for how Japanese who \u201clook foreign\u201d would be treated to the present day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scholar Robert Fish (2009) described the government\u2019s five-step solution as follows:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Step One<\/u>: \u00a0Politicians and bureaucrats drew attention to a looming \u201cproblem\u201d (mondai) that would soon need addressing so that Japan may return to its \u201cpeaceful, tranquil homogeneous state.\u201d\u00a0 Japanese society would axiomatically create problems for children who were not themselves \u201chomogeneous\u201d because they lacked a \u201cpure\u201d Japanese bloodline.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Step Two<\/u>: \u00a0The government drew up a policy proposal with high-level inputs from intellectuals, politicians, bureaucrats, and specialists through special deliberation councils (shingikai). \u00a0The shingikai\u2019s conclusions were on their face constructive: \u00a0Make sure these children were educated properly in the Japanese school system like any other Japanese.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But the framing went awry in application:\u00a0 The \u201cproblems\u201d to be resolved were riddled with negative assumptions: (a) konketsuji would bear the shame of being branded as children sired by American soldiers; (b) konketsuji would face financial hardship and stigma by being in a single-mother family of a prostitute; (c) konketsuji would not be accepted by school peers, and (d) konketsuji would be unable to function in Japanese society because they don\u2019t \u201clook Japanese.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So without any scientific basis or evidence, overcautious policymakers reflexively assumed Japanese who didn\u2019t \u201clook Japanese\u201d would not fit into Japan, and by saying so out loud, created an official permission structure for it to happen. \u00a0As scholar Paolo Freire notes, \u201cIn order to exist, one must be named,\u201d and branding konketsuji as a social \u201cproblem\u201d created policies of self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Step Three<\/u> was the public debate institutionalizing the stigma nationwide: \u00a0Politicians at all levels of government offered ponderous musings on how Japan\u2019s \u201ccharacter\u201d and \u201cJapaneseness\u201d would be affected by this dilution of Japan\u2019s race\/ethnicity. \u00a0The contemporary media and public discourse repeatedly cited inaccurate statistics of 100,000 \u201cchildren of assignations\u201d (ainoko) and made them into a shameful reminder of the American Occupation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ministry of Education even explicitly portrayed konketsuji as objects of pity, according to Fish, as children \u201cwho carry the destiny of misfortune on their backs.\u201d\u00a0 This narrative spread through popular culture including films, newspapers, memoirs, poetry, and even school speeches and essays.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Step Four<\/u>, data was collected to substantiate the anticipated outcome, then disseminated again through the mass media to officially demonstrate that konketsuji in fact did not do as well in school as their \u201cregular\u201d \u201cpure-blooded\u201d counterparts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, Step Five<\/u> firmly embedded the racialized mindset into the national narrative for generations. \u00a0If there were any \u201cproblems\u2019 with those children who \u201clooked different,\u201d they would be attributed to, yes, racism, but also just socioeconomics, difficulties fitting into Japan\u2019s homogeneous society, being abandoned by foreign fathers, or, as the Ministry of Education officially claimed, quote, \u201crough personalities\u201d from the mixed breeding.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In sum, the \u201cKonketsuji Problem\u201d was soon smoothed over as a postwar aberration, but by entangling it in public narratives of shame, pity, and parental irresponsibility, it created a generational environment where Visible Minorities became \u201cJapanese with an asterisk.\u201d \u00a0It also meant, if you were outside the \u201cnormal\u201d gene pool, you spent a life of constant psychological taxation to somehow find your way in.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Out from this toxic history steps a wounded haafu Minister Onoda.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

FLAWED PUBLIC POLICY FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS<\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s pause and give some credit to Onoda:\u00a0 In addition to being a Visible Minority, she grew up in Okayama Prefecture, a famously conservative area that elects rabidly xenophobic diet members like Takeo Hiranuma.\u00a0Nevertheless, she persisted, getting a good education in civics and getting elected to local office at age 29.\u00a0 She proved a quick study.\u00a0 Only a year later she was elected to the Diet.\u00a0 Within four years, she had a Cabinet post and has since served in several before getting a Cabinet position on \u201ccoexistence with foreigners\u201d essentially designed for her.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Onoda is clearly a talented politician with a lot of future potential, only aged 43 in a system where politicians hold office well into their eighties.\u00a0 Her political and ideological prot\u00e9g\u00e9, former Prime Minister Taro Aso (aged 85), is said to be grooming her for the next generation of leadership in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And that matters in a person given public power.\u00a0 As journalist Jake Adelstein<\/a> notes, \u201cthe Overton window on immigration has clearly shifted to the dehumanizing end\u2026 2-dimensional characters are not actually able to take care of the aged. They don\u2019t change bedpans, nor do they do the work of construction workers, or even 7\/11 clerks.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I argue that Onoda\u2019s apparent lack of empathy for actual human beings, coupled with a visible grievance towards the foreign side of her, makes her particularly ill-qualified to design policy for \u201cpeaceful coexistence\u201d toward them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now let me speak as a Political Scientist instead of a shrink:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe Onoda is where she is because she is a politically convenient lightning rod.\u00a0 As a willing tool for ultraconservative factions, she\u2019s helping the LDP compete for votes against the even more xenophobic \u201cJapan First\u201d Sanseito Party by tacking further nativist right.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Essentially, as I\u2019ve written before, she\u2019s making herself look good by making foreigners look bad, perpetually proving to her minders that she\u2019s \u201cone of the good ones.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

GOING IN PRECISELY THE WRONG DIRECTION<\/h3>\n

Some caveats:\u00a0 First, Onoda isn\u2019t doing this alone in a vacuum.\u00a0 All national-level shingikai on \u201cinternational coexistence\u201d etc. I have ever witnessed or investigated have lacked diversity.\u00a0 There\u2019s at best maybe one token foreign-born academic on their panel.\u00a0 And the panel\u2019s overall attitude to their object of study is instructive:\u00a0 Listening to their debates, I get the impression that these councils often treat foreign residents like wild animals that have taken over Japanese housing projects and neighborhoods, with onsite reports depicted almost like a safari to an exotic land.\u00a0 At worst, they don\u2019t even distinguish between foreign residents and tourists.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Point is, even before Onoda got involved, the national government usually produces public policy on foreigners without meaningful input from the people being affected by it.\u00a0 Blind spots abound.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Second, there\u2019s always the argument that Japan can run its society how it likes, and if foreigners are not part of the plan, so be it.\u00a0 But as we have argued for decades, this is not good for Japanese society.\u00a0 Onoda\u2019s policies do not defuse the demographic time bomb of Japan\u2019s accelerating aging, depopulation, and national pension insolvency; it accelerates it.\u00a0 Instead of encouraging settlement, stability, and economic revitalization, Onoda\u2019s policies are making sure foreign residents cannot be a part of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, the revised Business Manager Visa<\/a> will now require current foreign business owners to provide thirty million yen in capitalization, a master\u2019s degree, three years of business-management experience, and at least one costly full-time employee certified in Japanese Level N2.\u00a0 Even the whiff of this looming policy has already caused nationwide closings of shops and restaurants and an exodus of foreign business owners in recent months.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This will negatively impact the small towns and cities that are literally dying off.\u00a0 As the Irish Times<\/a> recently reported (Sept 9), Japan\u2019s population has shrunk every year for the past 19 years, now a net loss of nearly 1 million people per annum.\u00a0 Consequently, \u201c896 municipalities \u2014nearly half in Japan\u2014are facing extinction in 2040 because of population decline.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Adelstein<\/a> puts it, \u201cJapan\u2019s got a bureaucracy that runs like a man who wants to lose weight, so he burns down the kitchen.\u201d\u00a0 Immigration and assimilation of \u201cnew Japanese\u201d is the clear solution, but we\u2019re heading in precisely the opposite direction.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Third, Japan has a schizophrenic labor migration policy.\u00a0 Despite all the false bravado about foreign crime and all the evils that foreigners do in Japan, the LDP\u2019s cronies have for decades demanded cheap labor and more consumers.\u00a0 Hence the policies that brought in foreign labor and tourists and revitalized the economy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More of that is on the way:\u00a0 The plan is to more than double<\/a> the foreign workers under the Specified Skilled Worker Program and to increase foreign tourism from its record 42 million in 2025 to 60 million by 2028.\u00a0 So all the nativists are doing is stoking their own boilers of grievance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, think of the other people with Onoda\u2019s background in Japan.\u00a0 Her policies destroy whatever progress they have made.\u00a0 Instead of demonstrating to everyone that people who have gone through life as a haafu can still reach the highest echelons of government and be productive, loyal Japanese\u2014that diversity is not a threat to Japanese society\u2014she\u2019s affirmed exactly the opposite and enshrined it in public policy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Not only is she pulling up the ladder behind her, making it more difficult for Japan\u2019s minorities to follow in her footsteps and assimilate, she helping make sure fewer feet remain to fill those footsteps.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CONCLUSION:\u00a0 BAD BLOOD AND BAD POLICY<\/h3>\n

There\u2019s a truism in cinema:\u00a0 If a movie director disdains his subject, he will make a bad movie about it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Likewise in politics:\u00a0 If a policymaker disdains the people she\u2019s making policy for, she will make bad policy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And Kimi Onoda is doing just that. \u00a0Rewarded with real power after pandering to Japan\u2019s far right, she\u2019s using it to rid her environment of the foreign elements that have plagued her life.\u00a0 Her denialism not only of the reality of an internationalizing Japan, but also of her place in it, has resulted in monstrous public policies that will ethnically cleanse Japan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brought up in Japan\u2019s toxic history of race relations, Onoda will only wind up perpetuating it.\u00a0 And Japan will continue to suffer from all the wasted potential.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n

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Opening excerpt: Making much news in foreign quarters is Kimi Onoda, Minister for a \u201cSociety of Well-Ordered and Harmonious Coexistence with Foreign Nationals\u201d since October 2025.\u00a0 She is the public face spearheading policies making it more difficult Japan\u2019s foreign population to stay.<\/p>\n

Soon, foreign residents who want to live longer-term or permanently in Japan must prove that they consistently make more than the average Japanese household\u2019s income.\u00a0 Even if they manage that, there will be stringent and tested Japanese language requirements, fees for visa renewals jumping more than 12-fold from 6000 yen to 75,000 yen, and Permanent Resident fees skyrocketing 20-fold to 200,000 yen…<\/p>\n

Onoda is a peculiar messenger for this policy.\u00a0 A Chicago-born daughter of an American father, she is a subset of Japan\u2019s Visible Minorities called a haafu (half-Japanese).\u00a0 As such, one might expect her to be a bit more sensitive towards other diverse Japanese, as she has faced their hardships herself.\u00a0 Abandoned by her father and educated in Japan\u2019s homogenizing education system, she admits to growing up in poverty and being bullied for \u201clooking foreign.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, compassion for diversity is not Onoda\u2019s thing.\u00a0 She has made easily falsifiable comments about foreign crime and incarceration rates, plus defamatory claims about foreigners damaging Japanese society and the social safety net.<\/p>\n

That nastiness is embedded in her policy justifications, claiming these revisions will prevent foreigners becoming public welfare recipients now or in old age. \u00a0(Even though that\u2019s why everyone pays into the system in the first place.)\u00a0 And it was also seen when Onoda got snippy about the status of Permanent Residency (eijuken) no longer being \u201cpermanent,\u201d pedantically saying is not a \u201cright\u201d but a \u201cpermit\u201d for foreigners.\u00a0 So it\u2019s just another revocable visa…. Thus Onoda reveals a cruel assumption that foreigners can never truly earn the \u201cright\u201d to permanence no matter how long they contribute…<\/p>\n

Why such bile and personal animus in her public exercise of power? My theory is that this is what happens when Japanese of diverse roots, bullied and scarred by their inability to fit into Japan\u2019s \u201chomogeneous society\u201d narrative, become bullies themselves.<\/p>\n

This essay will now discuss the history of Japan\u2019s Postwar \u201chomogeneous society\u201d narrative, demonstrate how it stigmatized Japan\u2019s its Postwar mixed-blood Japanese children, and argue that Onoda\u2019s bile is a product of that.\u00a0 Instead of showing support and solidarity for her haafu peers, she went in the other direction, overcompensating to prove herself as a \u201creal Japanese\u201d by pandering to the \u201cpure-Japanese\u201d adherents…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,36,22,19,34,52,20,5,12,26,73,4,10,14,16,13,56,60,11,55,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-education","category-exclusionism","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-nj-legacies","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-tourism","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764","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=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17772,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

But there has been some speculation about Onoda\u2019s psychological scars and misanthropy.\u00a0 In public statements, she has said prefers relationships in her private life only \u201cwith 2D characters<\/a>,\u201d (not \u201c3D,\u201d as in real people).\u00a0 Fine, but if she only gets personally involved with fictional characters, she doesn\u2019t face the reality of pushback or consequence from people she affects.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n