{"id":2988,"date":"2009-04-18T00:54:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2009-04-18T01:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:01:15","slug":"japan-times-on-tokyo-takadanobaba-sour-strawberries-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2988","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times on Tokyo Takadanobaba SOUR STRAWBERRIES screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. \u00a0Here’s an excerpt of another positive review of a screening of documentary SOUR STRAWBERRIES<\/a>. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Debito Arudou<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0Japan Times Tuesday, April 14, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WHERE IT’S AT<\/a><\/div>\n

‘Sour Strawberries’ spotlights plight of non-Japanese ‘trainees’<\/h1>\n
By\u00a0TOMOKO OTAKE<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
Staff writer<\/div>\n
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The plight of foreign “trainees” in Japan, who often provide cheap labor at factories and in farm fields with no access to labor rights protection, is usually not something you discuss leisurely over a cup of coffee or a mug of beer. But people who showed up last month at Ben’s Cafe in Tokyo had an opportunity to do just that \u2014 at the screening of a German-Japanese collaboration, the documentary film “Sour Strawberries.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Screening: Human-rights activist Debito Arudou leads a discussion in Tokyo’s Takadanobaba after the screening of “Sour Strawberries,” a documentary about the often exploitative working conditions of foreign “trainees” in Japan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>SATOKO KAWASAKI PHOTOS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The night’s event, organized by Amnesty International Tokyo English Network (AITEN), started with a brief background briefing by Debito Arudou, a human-rights activist and Japan Times columnist who also appears in the hourlong documentary…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tensions rise toward the end of the film, when Chinese trainees who sought help from a labor union are forcibly taken to Narita airport to be sent back to their countries.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The subsequent scuffle \u2014 between the workers and the private security guards hired by the employer \u2014 was videotaped by union officials \u2014 and provided to the filmmakers to be incorporated into the film. Another highlight is where Arudou takes the film crew to Kabukicho \u2014 Tokyo’s night-life mecca in Shinjuku \u2014 for a showdown with officials from a nightclub with a sign out front saying “Japanese only.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Read the rest of the review at:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090414ev.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Get yourself a copy of SOUR STRAWBERRIES by going to:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html
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ENDS<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan Times review: The plight of foreign “trainees” in Japan, who often provide cheap labor at factories and in farm fields with no access to labor rights protection, is usually not something you discuss leisurely over a cup of coffee or a mug of beer. But people who showed up last month at Ben’s Cafe in Tokyo had an opportunity to do just that \u2014 at the screening of a German-Japanese collaboration, the documentary film “Sour Strawberries.”<\/p>\n

Tensions rise toward the end of the film, when Chinese trainees who sought help from a labor union are forcibly taken to Narita airport to be sent back to their countries.<\/p>\n

The subsequent scuffle \u2014 between the workers and the private security guards hired by the employer \u2014 was videotaped by union officials \u2014 and provided to the filmmakers to be incorporated into the film. Another highlight is where Arudou takes the film crew to Kabukicho \u2014 Tokyo’s night-life mecca in Shinjuku \u2014 for a showdown with officials from a nightclub with a sign out front saying “Japanese only.”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,12,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-media","category-speech-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}