{"id":4243,"date":"2009-08-26T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T06:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2009-08-26T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T06:20:49","slug":"mcdonalds-japan-cr-director-kawaminami-junichi-responds-to-franca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4243","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Japan CR Director Kawaminami Junichi responds to FRANCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/welcomestickers.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1704\" title=\"welcomesticker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/welcomesticker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francajapan.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1705\" title=\"franca-color\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/franca-color-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens Association forming NGO\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\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\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>UPDATES ON TWITTER:  arudoudebito<\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0NPO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francajapan.org\">FRANCA<\/a><\/strong> received this morning a response from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.co.jp\/\">McDonald&#8217;s Japan<\/a> Director of Corporate Relations, a Mr Kawaminami Junichi, regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4167\">our protest letters in English and Japanese on the &#8220;Mr James&#8221; sales campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate him taking time to respond, but he\u00a0toes the line he narrated to various world media stressing the lack of intention to offend, again without discussing any of the possible ill-effects to NJ residents from stereotyping.<\/p>\n<p>He also only answered in English, wish is a bit of a disappointment. \u00a0I presume he doesn&#8217;t want the discussion to expand to the Japanese debate arenas. \u00a0Letter follows below.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I have devoted my next\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/publications.html#JOURNALISTIC\">Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE<\/a> column to the &#8220;Mr James&#8221; phenomenon and what it might mean, with a historical context. \u00a0Out Tuesday, September 1, get a copy! \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonaldsjapanresponse001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4249\" title=\"mcdonaldsjapanresponse001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonaldsjapanresponse001.jpg\" alt=\"mcdonaldsjapanresponse001\" width=\"816\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonaldsjapanresponse001.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonaldsjapanresponse001-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonaldsjapanresponse001-744x1024.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPO FRANCA received this morning a response from McDonald&#8217;s Japan Director of Corporate Relations, a Mr Kawaminami Junichi, regarding our protest letters in English and Japanese on the &#8220;Mr James&#8221; sales campaign.  <\/p>\n<p>I appreciate him taking time to respond, but he toes the line he narrated to various world media stressing the lack of intention to offend, again without discussing any of the possible ill-effects to NJ residents from stereotyping.<\/p>\n<p>He also only answered in English, wish is a bit of a disappointment.  I presume he doesn&#8217;t want the discussion to expand to the Japanese debate arenas.  Letter follows below.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I have devoted my next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column to the &#8220;Mr James&#8221; phenomenon and what it might mean, with a historical context.  Out Tuesday, September 1, get a copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,43,22,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-bad-business-practices","category-cultural-issue","category-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","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=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}