{"id":6106,"date":"2010-03-05T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2010-03-05T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:22:06","slug":"debitos-march-tour-tokyo-sendai-shiga-schedule-march-19-to-april-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6106","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO’S MARCH TOUR: Tokyo-Sendai-Shiga Schedule March 19 to April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. I will be on the road interning at the JAPAN IMMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE<\/a> (JIPI — Sakanaka-san’s group<\/a>), hosting\/helping with NGO FRANCA (Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens Association<\/a>) meetings, and doing speeches here and there. If you are in the area and have time, do stop by or get in touch (debito@debito.org) for some beers etc. \u00a0Still open for speeches (I’m doing all this at my own expense) if something can be thrown together at short notice.<\/p>\n

Basic schedule as follows:<\/p>\n

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\n MARCH-APRIL 2010 SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n

FRI MAR 19 MORIOKA
\nSAT MAR 20 MORIOKA
\nSUN MAR 21 SENDAI FRANCA MEETIN<\/strong>G 1PM<\/strong>
\nMON MAR 22 TOKYO
\nTUES MAR 23 TOKYO INTERNING JPN IMMIG POLICY INSTITUTE
\nWED MAR 24 INTERNING JIPI, MEETING 7PM
\nTHURS MAR 25 SHIGA UNIVERSITY SPEE<\/strong>CH 1:30PM-5PM<\/strong>
\nFRI MAR 26 INTERNING JIPI
\nSAT MAR 27 TOKYO FRANCA MEETI<\/strong>NG\u00a06PM-9PM<\/strong>
\nSUN MAR 28 free day as yet
\nMON MAR 29 INTERNING JIPI, JIPI SPEECH 7PM-9:30 PM<\/strong>
\nTUES MAR 30 INTERNING JIPI
\nWEDS MAR 31 INTERNING JIPI
\nTHURS APR 1 INTERNING JIPI
\nFRI APR 2 INTERNING JIPI last day
\nSAT APR 3 return to Sapporo
\n========================<\/p>\n

This schedule may change, and I will update it here, so check back from time to time. \u00a0The UN Special Rapporteur Jorge Bustamante will be in town (dates TBD), so I may be making our case to him as well.<\/p>\n

NOTES ON EVENTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

SUNDAY MAR 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sendai FRANCA Third Meeting<\/a><\/strong>
\nLocation: AER Building El Solar 28F Meeting Room 1
\nSunday, 21 March 10 @ 13:30\u00a0Ends 16:30<\/p>\n

Come along to our third meeting and talk about issues relevant to Sendai FRANCA. We will be looking at recent events and planning for the future, including the possibility of a lawsuit against the Sumo Association for its new rule counting naturalized citizens as “foreign wrestlers” for their stable limitations. Cost: FREE (suggested donation 200 yen)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SATURDAY MAR 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

FRANCA Tokyo Meeting<\/a><\/strong> Saturday March 27, 2010; 6PM-9PM<\/strong> International House of Japan 5-11-16 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo Meeting Name – FRANCA. \u00a0How to get there at\u00a0http:\/\/www.i-house.or.jp\/en\/ihj\/access.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Topics<\/strong>: Membership, Why FRANCA?, and perhaps what to do about the recent Sumo Association rules that say that naturalized sumo wrestlers are also to be counted as the one “foreign” wrestler allowed in sumo stables. More on that here:https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6085<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

THURS MAR 25<\/strong> is my annual guest lecture at Shiga University on issues of discrimination and assimilation. \u00a0Starts 1PM. \u00a0More details Dr Robert Aspinall at\u00a0aspinall_robert AT hotmail DOT com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MON MAR 29 JIPI<\/a> SPEECH IN JAPANESE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Again, I’m happy to give more speeches (I’m doing this entire trip on my own dime), so let me know (debito@debito.org) if there is anyone else out there who wants to hear what I have to say. \u00a0Thanks. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARCH-APRIL 2010 SCHEDULE<\/p>\n

FRI MAR 19 MORIOKA
\nSAT MAR 20 MORIOKA
\nSUN MAR 21 SENDAI FRANCA MEETING 1PM
\nMON MAR 22 TOKYO
\nTUES MAR 23 TOKYO INTERNING JPN IMMIG POLICY INSTITUTE
\nWED MAR 24 INTERNING JIPI, MEETING 7PM
\nTHURS MAR 25 SHIGA UNIVERSITY SPEECH 1:30PM-5PM
\nFRI MAR 26 INTERNING JIPI
\nSAT MAR 27 TOKYO FRANCA MEETING 6PM-9PM
\nSUN MAR 28 free day as yet
\nMON MAR 29 INTERNING JIPI, JIPI SPEECH 7PM-9:30 PM
\nTUES MAR 30 INTERNING JIPI
\nWEDS MAR 31 INTERNING JIPI
\nTHURS APR 1 INTERNING JIPI
\nFRI APR 2 INTERNING JIPI last day
\nSAT APR 3 return to Sapporo<\/p>\n

If you are in the area and have time, do stop by or get in touch (debito@debito.org) for some beers etc. Still open for speeches (I’m doing all this at my own expense) if something can be thrown together at short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-speech-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","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=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}