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Hi Blog. \u00a0What follows is the Table of Contents for an information packet I will be presenting Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Migrants Jorge A. Bustamante, who will be visiting Japan and holding hearings on the state of discrimination in Japan. \u00a0Presented on behalf of our NGO FRANCA<\/a> (Sendai and Tokyo meetings on Sun Mar 21 and Sat Mar 27 respectively<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It’s a hefty packet of about 500 pages printed off or so, but I will keep a couple of pockets at the back for Debito.org Readers who would like to submit something about discrimination in Japan they think the UN should hear. \u00a0It can be anonymous, but better would be people who provide contact details about themselves.<\/p>\n

Last call for that. \u00a0Two pages A4 front and back, max (play with the fonts and margins if you like). \u00a0Please send to debito@debito.org by NOON JST Thursday March 18<\/strong>, so I can print it on my laser printer and slip it in the back.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’ll be giving as part of an information pack. \u00a0I haven’t written my 20-minute presentation for March 23 yet, but thanks for all your feedback on that last week, everyone. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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(FRANCA LETTERHEAD)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To Mr. Jorge Bustamante, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants:<\/p>\n

Date: March 23, 2010 \u00a0Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n

Thank you for coming to Japan and hearing our side of the story.\u00a0 We have a lot to say and few domestic forums that will listen to us.\u00a0 –ARUDOU Debito, Chair, FRANCA Japan<\/em><\/strong> (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org)<\/p>\n

ANNOTATED CONTENTS OF THIS FOLDER<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Referential documents and articles appear in the following order:<\/p>\n

I. <\/strong>On Government-sponsored Xenophobia and Official-level Resistance to Immigration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This section will seek to demonstrate that discrimination is not just a societal issue.\u00a0 It is something promoted by the Japanese government as part of official policy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. OVERVIEW<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Japan Times article: \u00a0“THE MYOPIC STATE WE’RE IN<\/a>: \u00a0Fingerprint scheme exposes xenophobic, short-sighted trend in government” (December 18, 2007). \u00a0Point:\u00a0 How government policy is hard-wiring the Japanese public into fearing and blaming Non-Japanese for Japan\u2019s social ills. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20071218zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Japan Times article, “Beware the Foreigner as Guinea Pig<\/a>“, on how denying rights to one segment of the population (NJ) affects everyone badly, as policies that damage civil liberties, once tested on Non-Japanese residents, eventually get applied to citizens too (July 8, 2008). http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20080708zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Japan Times article: \u00a0“THE BLAME GAME<\/a>: \u00a0Convenience, creativity seen in efforts to scapegoat Japan’s foreign community” (August 28, 2007), depicting foreigners as criminal invaders, and thwarting their ability to assimilate properly. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20070828zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Japan Times article: “VISA VILLAINS<\/a>: <\/strong>Japan’s new Immigration law overdoes enforcement and penalties” (June 29, 2004) http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20040629zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Japan Times article, “Demography vs. Demagoguery<\/a>“, on how politics has pervaded Japanese demographic science, making “immigration” a taboo for discussion as a possible solution to Japan\u2019s aging society. (November 3, 2009) http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20091103ad.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Japan Times article:\u00a0“HUMAN RIGHTS SURVEY STINKS<\/a>: \u00a0Government effort riddled with bias, bad science” (October 23, 2007), talking about how official government surveys render human rights \u201coptional\u201d for Non-Japanese, and downplays the discrimination against them. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20071023zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Japan Times article: “WATCHING THE DETECTIVES<\/a>: Japan’s human rights bureau falls woefully short of meeting its own job specifications” (July 8, 2003), on how the oft-touted Ministry of Justice\u2019s \u201cJinken Y\u014dgobu<\/em>\u201d is in fact a Potemkin System, doing little to assist those with human rights issues in Japan. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20030708zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Japan Times article, “Unlike Humans, Swine Flu is Indiscriminate<\/a>“, on the lessons to be learned from Japan’s public panic from the Swine Flu Pandemic, and how to avoid discrimination once again from arising (August 4, 2009). http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20090804ad.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Japan Times article, “Golden parachutes for Nikkei only mark failure of race-based policy<\/a>“, on the downfall of Japan’s labor visa policies, e.g., the \u201cApril 2009 repatriation bribe\u201d for the Nikkei Brazilians and Peruvians, sending them \u201chome\u201d with a pittance instead of treating them like laborers who made investments and contributions to Japan\u2019s welfare and pension systems. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090407ad.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    II. <\/strong>On Abuses of Police Power and Racial Profiling vis-\u00e0-vis Non-Japanese<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    This section will seek to demonstrate that one arm of the government, the National Police Agency, has had a free hand in generating a fictitious \u201cForeign Crime Wave of the 2000s\u201d, by characterizing Non-Japanese in the media as criminals, exaggerating or falsifying foreign crime reportage, bending laws to target them, engaging in flagrant racial profiling of minorities, and otherwise \u201cmaking Japan the world\u2019s safest country again\u201d by portraying the foreign element as unsafe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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    1. Japan Times article: “DOWNLOADABLE DISCRIMINATION<\/a>: The Immigration Bureau’s new \u201csnitching\u201d Web site is both short-sighted and wide open to all manner of abuses.” (March 30, 2004), on how online submission sites (which still exist) run by the government are open to the general public, for anonymous reporting of anyone who \u201clooks foreign and suspicious\u201d to the police. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20040330zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Japan Times article: “FORENSIC SCIENCE FICTION<\/a>: Bad science and racism underpin police policy” (January 13, 2004), how the National Research Institute for Police Science has received government grants to study \u201cforeign DNA\u201d (somehow seen as genetically different from all Japanese DNA) for crime scene investigation.\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/member\/member.html?fl20040113zg.htm<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. 3. <\/strong>Japan Times article:\u00a0 \u201cFOREIGN CRIME STATS COVER UP A REAL COP OUT<\/span>:\u00a0 Published figures are half the story\u201d (Oct 4, 2002), indicating how the National Police Agency is falsifying and exaggerating foreign crime statistics to create the image of Non-Japanese residents as criminals. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20021004zg.html<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. Japan Times article: “HERE COMES THE FEAR<\/a>: Antiterrorist law creates legal conundrums for foreign residents” (May 24, 2005), showing nascent anti-terrorist policy introduced by the Koizumi Administration specifically targeting Non-Japanese as terrorists. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20050524zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. <\/a>Debito.org Website:\u00a0 \u201cIbaraki Prefectural Police put up new and improved public posters portraying Non-Japanese as coastal invaders<\/span>\u201d (November 20, 2008), and \u201cIbaraki Police\u2019s third new NJ-scare poster\u201d (July 29, 2009), showing how the Japanese police are putting up public posters portraying the issue as defending Japanese shores from foreign invasion, complete with images of beach storming, riot gear and machine guns. \u00a0www.debito.org\/?p=2057<\/a> and www.debito.org\/?p=3996<\/a><\/li>\n
    6. <\/a>Japan Times article: “UPPING THE FEAR FACTOR<\/a>: \u00a0There is a disturbing gap between actual crime in Japan and public worry over it” (February 20, 2007), showing the Koizumi policy in full bloom, plus the media\u2019s complicity in abetting the National Police Agency\u2019s generation of a \u201cforeign crime wave\u201d. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20070220zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    7. <\/a>Japan Times article: “MINISTRY MISSIVE WRECKS RECEPTION<\/a>: MHLW asks hotels to enforce nonexistent law” (October 18, 2005), http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20051018zg.html<\/a> and<\/li>\n
    8. Japan Times article: “CREATING LAWS OUT OF THIN AIR<\/a>: Revisions to hotel laws stretched by police to target foreigners” (March 8, 2005), both articles showing how the Japanese police use legal sleight-of-hand to convince hotels to target foreigners for visa and ID checks. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20050308zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    9. <\/a>Japan Times article: “‘GAIJIN CARD’ CHECKS SPREAD AS POLICE DEPUTIZE THE NATION”<\/a> (November 13, 2007), showing how extralegal means are being used to expand the \u201cvisa dragnets\u201d to people who are not Immigration Officers, or even police officers. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20071113zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    10. <\/a>Japan Times article, “IC You: \u00a0Bugging the Alien<\/a>“, on the new IC Chip Gaijin Cards and national protests (May 19, 2009), how RFID-chipped ID cards (of which 24\/7 carrying for Non-Japanese only is mandatory under criminal law) can be converted into remote tracking devices, for even better racial profiling as technology improves. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20090519zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    11. <\/a>Japan Times article, “Summit Wicked This Way Comes<\/a>“, on the Japanese Government’s bad habits brought out by the Hokkaido Toyako 2008 G8 Summit (April 22, 2008) \u2013 namely, a clampdown on the peaceful activities of Japan\u2019s civil society, with a focus on targeting people who \u201clook foreign\u201d. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20080422zg.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    12. <\/a>Japan Times article, “Forecast: \u00a0Rough with ID checks mainly to the north<\/a>“, focusing on a protest against Hokkaido Police’s egregious racial profiling during the G8 Summit, and how the police dodged media scrutiny and public accountability (July 1, 2008). http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20080701ad.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    13. <\/a>Japan Times article, “Cops Crack Down with ‘I Pee’ Checks<\/a>“, on the Japanese police stretching their authority to demand urine samples from Non-Japanese on the street without warrants (July 7, 2009). http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20090707ad.html<\/a><\/li>\n
    14. <\/a>Japan Times article, \u201cPEDAL PUSHERS COP A LOAD ON YASUKUNI DORI:<\/a> Japan\u2019s low crime rate has many advantages, although harassment by bored cops certainly isn\u2019t one of them\u201d (June 20, 2002), demonstrating how arbitrarily Tokyo police will nab people at night ostensibly for \u201cbicycle ownership checks\u201d, but really for visa checks \u2013 if they are riding while \u201clooking foreign\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      III. <\/strong>On Racism and Hate Speech in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

      This section talks about other activities that are not state-sponsored or encouraged, but tolerated in society as \u201crational\u201d or \u201creasonable\u201d discrimination, or natural ascriptive social ordering.\u00a0 These unfettered acts of discrimination towards minorities, decried by previous Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene as \u201cdeep and profound\u201d, are examples of why we need a law against racial discrimination and hate speech in Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n

      1. OVERVIEW<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 NGO Report Regarding the Rights of Non-Japanese Nationals, Minorities of Foreign Origins, and Refugees in Japan<\/span> (33 pages).\u00a0 Prepared for the 76th<\/sup> United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Japan, submitted to UNCERD February 2010.\u00a0 Compiled by Solidarity with Migrants Japan.\u00a0 Particularly germane to this information packet is Chapter 2 by Arudou Debito, entitled \u201cRace and Nationality-Based Entrance Refusals at Private and Quasi-Public Establishments\u201d (3 pages). https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6000<\/a><\/p>\n

      2. <\/strong>Japan Focus<\/a> paper (14 pages): \u00a0“GAIJIN HANZAI MAGAZINE AND HATE SPEECH IN JAPAN<\/a>: \u00a0The newfound power of Japan’s international residents” (March 20, 2007).\u00a0 This academic paper talks about how a \u201cForeign Crime Magazine\u201d deliberately distorted data (to the point of accusing Non-Japanese of criminal acts that were not actually crimes), and portrayed Chinese and other minorities as having criminality as part of their innate nature. http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/-Arudou-Debito\/2386<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

      3. Japan Times article, “NJ Suffrage and the Racist Element<\/a>” (February 2, 2010), on xenophobic Japan Dietmember Hiranuma’s racist statements towards fellow Dietmember Renho (who has Taiwanese roots), and how it lays bare the lie of the xenophobic Rightists demanding people take Japanese citizenship if they want the right to vote in local elections \u2013 when it clearly makes no difference to them if they do. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100202ad.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      4. Japan Times article, “The Issue that dares not speak its name<\/a>“, on the suppressed debate on racial discrimination in Japan (June 2, 2009), where the term \u201cracial discrimination\u201d itself is not part of the Japanese media\u2019s vocabulary to describe even situations adjudged \u201cracial discrimination\u201d by Japanese courts. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20090602ad.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      5. Japan Times article: \u00a0“HOW TO KILL A BILL<\/a>:\u00a0 Tottori’s Human Rights Ordinance is a case study in alarmism” (May 2, 2006), on how Japan\u2019s first prefectural-level ordinance against discrimination was actually unpassed<\/em> months later, due to a hue and cry over the apparent dangers of giving foreigners too many rights. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20060502zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      6. Academic Paper (Linguapax Asia, forthcoming) (14 pages):\u00a0 \u201cPropaganda in Japan\u2019s Media:\u00a0 Manufacturing Consent for National Goals at the Expense of Non-Japanese Residents\u201d, on how government policy, political opportunism, and the Japanese media fomented a fictitious \u201cForeign Crime Wave\u201d in the 2000s, and how that caused quantifiable social damage to Non-Japanese residents.<\/p>\n

      7. Japan Focus<\/a> paper (2 pages): “JAPANESE ONLY:\u00a0 The Otaru Hotspring Case and Discrimination Against ‘Foreigners’ in Japan<\/a>” (November 2005), a very brief summary explaining Japan\u2019s first case of racial discrimination that made to the Supreme Court (where it was rejected for consideration), and what it means in terms of Japan\u2019s blind-eying of discrimination. http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/-Arudou-Debito\/1743<\/a><\/p>\n

      8. Debito.org Website:\u00a0 \u201cTokyo Edogawa-ku Liberal Democratic Party flyer, likens granting Permanent Residents the right to vote in local elections to an alien invasion\u201d.\u00a0 (February 24, 2010)\u00a0 Seventeen local politicians of the formerly-ruling LDP lend their names against the ruling Democratic Party of Japan\u2019s liberalizing policy, illustrated with a UFO targeting the Japanese archipelago. https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6182<\/a><\/p>\n

      9. Debito.org Website:\u00a0 \u201cMore anti-foreigner scare posters and publications, linking Permanent Resident suffrage bill to foreign crime and Chinese invasion\u201d. (March 15, 2010)\u00a0 Anonymous internet billeters are putting propaganda in home post boxes in Nagoya and Narita, and bookstores are selling books capitalizing on the fear by saying that granting NJ the vote will make Japan \u201cdisappear\u201d by turning into a foreign country. https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6182<\/a><\/p>\n

      10. Debito.org Website:\u00a0 Anti-foreign suffrage protests in Shibuya Nov 28 2009. The invective in flyers and banners: \u201cJapan is in danger!\u201d (December 4, 2009).\u00a0 An overview and summary translation of the invective and arguments being put forth by the xenophobic Far-Right in public demonstrations. https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5353<\/a><\/p>\n

      IV. <\/strong>On the Disenfranchisement of the Non-Japanese communities in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

      This section touches upon how Non-Japanese minorities are shut out of Japan\u2019s debate arenas, public events, even court rooms, making them largely unable to stand up for themselves and assimilate on their own terms.<\/em><\/p>\n

      1. Trans Pacific Radio: \u00a0“RUMBLE AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS<\/a> \u2013 A hearing on human rights is disrupted by right wingers” (September 10, 2007), demonstrating how the government will not stop hate speech from Right-wingers even when it willfully disrupts their official fact-finding meetings. http:\/\/www.transpacificradio.com\/2007\/09\/10\/debito-rumble-at-moj\/<\/a><\/p>\n

      2. Japan Times article, McDonald’s Japan’s “Mr James” campaign: \u00a0Why these stereotyping advertisements should be discontinued.<\/a> (September 1, 2009), showing how McDonald\u2019s, an otherwise racially-tolerant multinational corporation overseas, is able thanks to lax attitudes in Japan to stoop to racial stereotyping to sell product, moreover not engage in constructive public debate about the issues. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20090901ad.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      3. Japan Times article: “ABUSE, RACISM, LOST EVIDENCE DENY JUSTICE IN VALENTINE CASE<\/a>:\u00a0Nigerian’s ordeal shows that different judicial standards apply for foreigners\u00a0in court” (August 14, 2007), where even foreigners\u2019 testimony is overtly dismissed in court expressly because it is foreign. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20070814zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      4. Japan Times article: “TWISTED LEGAL LOGIC DEALS RIGHTS BLOW TO FOREIGNERS<\/a>: \u00a0McGowan ruling has set a very dangerous precedent” (February 7, 2006), in that a store manager who barred an African-American customer entry, expressly because he dislikes black people, was exonerated in court on a semantic technicality. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20060207zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      5. Japan Times article: “SCHOOLS SINGLE OUT FOREIGN ROOTS:<\/a> International kids suffer under archaic rules” (July 17, 2007). An article about the \u201cHair Police\u201d in Japan\u2019s schools, who force Non-Japanese and ethnically-diverse Japanese to dye their natural hair color black. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20070717zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      6. Japan Times article: “A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?<\/a>: National Sports Festival bars gaijin, and amateur leagues follow suit” (Sept 30, 2003), on Japan’s National Sports Meets (kokutai<\/em>), and how Japan’s amateur sports leagues refuse Non-Japanese residents’ participation: http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20030930zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      7. Asahi Shimbun English-language POINT OF VIEW column, “IF CARTOON KIDS HAVE IT, WHY NOT FOREIGNERS?<\/a>” (Dec 29, 2003).\u00a0 A translation of my Nov 8 2003 Asahi Watashi no Shiten<\/em> column, wondering why cartoon characters and wild sealions (see #9 below) are allowed to be registered as \u201cresidents\u201d in Japan under the government\u2019s j\u016bminhy\u014d<\/em> Residency Certificate system, but not Non-Japanese. https:\/\/www.debito.org\/asahi122903.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

      8. Japan Times article, “FREEDOM OF SPEECH<\/a>: ‘Tainted blood’ sees ‘foreign’ students barred from English contests” (Jan 6, 2004), with several odd, blood-based rules indicating a belief that foreign ancestry gives people an advantage in terms of language ability \u2013 even if the foreign ethnicity is not Anglophone! http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20040106zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      9. Japan Times article on \u201cSEALING THE DEAL ON PUBLIC MEETINGS: Outdoor gatherings are wrapped in red tape<\/span>.\u201d (March 4, 2003), on the sealion \u201cTama-chan\u201d issue and demonstrations over the issue of family registry exclusionism (see #7 above).\u00a0 Why is it so difficult to raise public awareness about minority issues in Japan?\u00a0 Because police grant permission to public gatherings. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20030304zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      V. <\/strong>On What Japan should do to face its multicultural future<\/strong><\/p>\n

      This section offers suggestions on what Japan ought to be doing:\u00a0 Engaging immigration, instead of retreating further into a fortress mentality and defaming those who wish to emigrate here.<\/em><\/p>\n

      1. <\/strong>Japan Focus<\/a> paper: \u00a0“JAPAN’S COMING INTERNATIONALIZATION<\/a>: \u00a0Can Japan assimilate its immigrants?” (January 12, 2006) http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/-Arudou-Debito\/2078<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

      2. Japan Times article, “A Level Playing Field for Immigrants<\/a>” (December 1, 2009), offering policy proposals to the new DPJ ruling party on how to make Japan a more attractive place for immigration. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20091201ad.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      3. Japan Focus<\/a> paper: \u00a0“JAPAN’S FUTURE AS AN INTERNATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY<\/a>: From Migrants to Immigrants” (October 29, 2007)\u00a0http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/-Arudou-Debito\/2559<\/a><\/p>\n

      4. “Medical Care for Non-Japanese Residents of Japan: Let’s look at Japanese Society’s General ‘Bedside Manner’ First<\/a>“, Journal of International Health Vol.23, No.1 2008, pgs 19-21. https:\/\/www.debito.org\/journalintlhealth2008.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

      VI. Japan and the United Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n

      1. <\/strong>Academic paper (forthcoming, draft, 21 pages):\u00a0 \u201cRacial Discrimination in Japan:\u00a0 Arguments made by the Japanese government to justify the status quo in defiance of United Nations Treaty\u201d.\u00a0 This paper points out the blind spot in both United Nations and the Japanese government, which continues to overlook the plight of immigrants (viewing them more as temporary migrant workers), and their ethnically-diverse Japanese children, even in their February 2010 UNCERD Review of Japan (please skip to pages 18-19 in the paper).<\/strong><\/p>\n

      2. Japan Times article:\u00a0“PULLING THE WOOL<\/a>: \u00a0Japan’s pitch for the UN Human Rights Council was disingenuous at best” (November 7, 2006), talking about the disinformation the government was giving the UN in its successful bid to have a leadership post on the newfound HRC. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20061107zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      3. Japan Times article: “RIGHTING A WRONG<\/a>: United Nations representative Doudou Diene’s trip to Japan has caused a stir” (June 27, 2006). http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/print\/fl20060627zg.html<\/a><\/p>\n

      VII. OTHER REPORTS FROM CONCERNED PARTIES (emails)<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Topics<\/span>:\u00a0 Daycare center teaching \u201cLittle Black Sambo\u201d to preschoolers despite requests from international parents to desist, Anonymous statement regarding professional working conditions in Japan for professional and expatriate women (issues of CEDAW), Discriminatory hiring practices at English-language schools (2 cases), Racial profiling at Narita Airport, Harassment of foreign customers by Japanese credit agencies, Hunger strikers at Ibaraki Detention Center, Politician scaremongering regarding a hypothetical \u00a0“foreign Arab prince with 50 kids claiming child tax allowance”<\/p>\n

      ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What follows is the Table of Contents for an information packet I will be presenting Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Migrants Jorge A. Bustamante, who will be visiting Japan and holding hearings on the state of discrimination in Japan. Presented on behalf of our NGO FRANCA (Sendai and Tokyo meetings on Sun Mar 21 and Sat Mar 27 respectively).<\/p>\n

      It’s a hefty packet of about 500 pages printed off or so, but I will keep a couple of pockets at the back for Debito.org Readers who would like to submit something about discrimination in Japan they think the UN should hear. It can be anonymous, but better would be people who provide contact details about themselves.<\/p>\n

      Last call for that. Two pages A4 front and back, max (play with the fonts and margins if you like). Please send to debito@debito.org by NOON JST Thursday March 18, so I can print it on my laser printer and slip it in the back.<\/p>\n

      Here’s what I’ll be giving as part of an information pack. I haven’t written my 20-minute presentation for March 23 yet, but thanks for all your feedback on that last week, everyone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18,34,33,51,42,27,52,5,12,37,26,4,10,14,16,2,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-academia","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-franca","category-g8-summit","category-gaijin-hanzai-mag","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-injustice","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-otaru-onsen-lawsuit","category-speech-materials","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","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=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}