{"id":5401,"date":"2009-12-18T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:44:04","slug":"kyodo-goj-responsible-for-hardship-facing-ainu-incl-racial-profiling-by-j-police-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Kyodo: GOJ responsible for hardship facing Ainu, incl racial profiling by J police on the street!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here’s a little article about how other minorities have it in Japan — the Ainu indigenous peoples, for one. \u00a0According to this, people of Ainu descent are even being racially profiled by police on the street just like NJ! \u00a0Anyone still want to argue that the NPA is not training the police to target foreigners (defined as “foreign looking”, hence the Ainu getting snagged)? \u00a0Even the police themselves below justify their actions as ferreting out NJ overstayers. \u00a0Read on. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Former panel member says state responsible for hardship facing Ainu
\nKyodo News\/Japan Today Sunday 06th December 2009,<\/strong> Courtesy SC
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/national\/view\/former-panel-member-says-state-responsible-for-hardship-facing-ainu<\/a>
\nTOKYO \u2014
\n A member of a disbanded government panel on policies related to the Ainu said Saturday that the panel wanted to send a message to the government and the public that state policy has imposed hardships on the indigenous people and caused discrimination against them. \u2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018We wanted to make it clear and tell the people in our report that the state was responsible for the suffering imposed on the Ainu and the disparities (between them and the majority group),\u2019\u2019 Teruki Tsunemoto, head of the Hokkaido University Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, told a symposium on Ainu policy in Tokyo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tsunemoto was one of the eight members of the panel, which was set up after Japan recognized the Ainu as an indigenous people last year and issued the report in July this year. The panel urged the government in the report to take concrete steps to improve the lives of Ainu people and promote public understanding of them through education.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stressing the need to take specific measures for the Ainu, Tsunemoto, also a professor in constitutional law, said, \u2018\u2018The Ainu have existed uniquely as an indigenous people and they have become a minority group not because they wanted to be but because the majority group of the Japanese advanced into their native land.\u2019\u2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018The Ainu did not agree to become minority, so the state must take responsibility for driving them into their current status,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u2018\u2018The panel did not propose providing \u2018benefits\u2019 to the Ainu but enhancing Ainu policies, based on the state\u2019s political responsibility.\u2019\u2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A survey has shown that Ainu people still lead underprivileged lives, with their income levels and university advancement rate remaining low, compared with the national averages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the symposium, some Ainu people living in Tokyo and its vicinity shared their experiences of discrimination and expressed hope for future policy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Akemi Shimada said, \u2018\u2018People do not know much about the Ainu. Some people in Tokyo said to me when they saw me wearing traditional Ainu clothes, \u2018Do the Ainu still exist?\u2019 and \u2018Are you from the Ainu country?\u2019 I responded, \u2018Where is the Ainu country?\u2019\u2018\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tomoko Yahata said she was stopped and searched in Tokyo nine times over the six months through October. \u2018\u2018Responding to my question as to why they had stopped me, the police officers said it is because there are many overstaying foreigners,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Many Ainu must be facing similar difficulties as they now live nationwide, she suggested.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ainu at the meeting said they want sufficient support to improve their livelihoods while seeking their own space where they can pursue cultural activities such as traditional dancing, embroidery and cooking.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kyodo: A member of a disbanded government panel on policies related to the Ainu said Saturday that the panel wanted to send a message to the government and the public that state policy has imposed hardships on the indigenous people and caused discrimination against them. \u2018\u2018We wanted to make it clear and tell the people in our report that the state was responsible for the suffering imposed on the Ainu and the disparities (between them and the majority group),\u2019\u2019 Teruki Tsunemoto, head of the Hokkaido University Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, told a symposium on Ainu policy in Tokyo…<\/p>\n

[Ainu panelist] Tomoko Yahata said she was stopped and searched in Tokyo nine times over the six months through October. \u2018\u2018Responding to my question as to why they had stopped me, the police officers said it is because there are many overstaying foreigners,\u2019\u2019 she said. Many Ainu must be facing similar difficulties as they now live nationwide, she suggested…<\/p>\n

Tsunemoto was one of the eight members of the panel, which was set up after Japan recognized the Ainu as an indigenous people last year and issued the report in July this year. The panel urged the government in the report to take concrete steps to improve the lives of Ainu people and promote public understanding of them through education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-education","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}