{"id":1972,"date":"2008-10-28T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2008-10-29T18:49:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T09:49:45","slug":"govt-websites-dont-include-nj-residents-in-their-tallies-of-local-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Govt websites don’t include NJ residents in their tallies of “local population”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Handbook<\/a>\"\\\"<\/a>\"Foreign<\/a>\"\\\"<\/a>\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\"<\/a>\"JAPANESE<\/a>
\nHi Blog. \u00a0Mark in Yayoi pointed out a singular thing to me the other night — that the Tokyo Nerima-ku website lists its population and households in various municipal subsections. \u00a0Then puts at the top that “foreigners are not included”. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Screen capture (click on image to go to website) from:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.city.nerima.tokyo.jp\/shiryo\/jinko\/data\/area\/200810.html
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etc. We already saw in yesterday’s blog entry that NJ workers are not included in official unemployment statistics<\/a>. \u00a0Now NJ taxpayers are also not included as part of the “general population”?<\/p>\n

So I did a google search using the words “\u4eba\u53e3\u3000\u7dcf\u6570\u306b\u306f\u3001\u5916\u56fd\u4eba\u767b\u9332\u6570\u3092\u542b\u3093\u3067\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093”\u00a0and found that other government websites do the same thing! \u00a0It is, in fact, SOP.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=\u4eba\u53e3\u3000\u7dcf\u6570\u306b\u306f\u3001\u5916\u56fd\u4eba\u767b\u9332\u6570\u3092\u542b\u3093\u3067\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nerima-ku page, BTW, does not even mention anywhere on the page I captured above that foreigners even exist in Nerima-ku — you have to go to a separate page, a separate enclave, for the gaijin.<\/p>\n

Pedants (meaning the GOJ) will no doubt claim (as is worded at the top) that “we’re only counting registered residents, and NJ aren’t registered residents, therefore we can’t count them<\/a>“. \u00a0But that doesn’t make it a good thing to do, especially when you’re using the context of “\u4eba\u53e3\u7dcf\u6570” (total population). \u00a0What a nasty thing anyway to do to people who pay your taxes and live there! \u00a0It also becomes a tad harder to complain about “Japanese Only” signs on businesses<\/a>\u00a0when even the GOJ also excludes foreigners from official statistics.<\/p>\n

And it’s also harder to believe the\u00a0GOJ’s claim to the UN that it has taken\u00a0\u201cevery conceivable measure to fight against racial discrimination\u201d<\/a>. \u00a0How about measures like counting (not to mention officially registering<\/a>) foreigners as taxpayers and members of the population? \u00a0<\/p>\n

(I bet if any measure actually does get taken in response to this blog entry, the only “conceivable” one to the bureaucrats will be to change the terminology, using the word “juumin” instead of “jinkou sousuu”. \u00a0Solve the problem by futzing with the rubric, not changing the law. \u00a0Beyond conception.)<\/p>\n

Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/strong>: \u00a0And of course, don’t forget this, from Debito.org too…<\/p>\n

Population rises 1st time in 3 years The Yomiuri Shimbun, Aug 1, 2008 <\/strong>http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/20080801TDY01306.htm <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s population grew for the first time in three years to 127,066,178 in the year to March 31, up 12,707 from a year earlier, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said Thursday. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The figure was based on resident registrations at municipal government offices and does not include foreign residents… <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1860<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark in Yayoi pointed out a singular thing to me the other night — that the Tokyo Nerima-ku website lists its population in various subsections. Then puts at the top that “foreigners are not included”.<\/p>\n

We already saw in yesterday’s blog entry that NJ workers are not included in unemployment statistics. Now why aren’t NJ taxpayers also included as part of the “general population”? <\/p>\n

So did a google search and found that other government websites do the same thing!<\/p>\n

Hard to complain about “Japanese Only” signs on businesses when even the GOJ excludes foreigners from official statistics. And it’s also harder to believe the GOJ’s claim to the UN that it has taken \u201cevery conceivable measure to fight against racial discrimination\u201d. How about measures such as counting foreigners as taxpayers and members of the population? Stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34,5,37,26,4,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-injustice","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-labor-issues","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}