{"id":6873,"date":"2010-06-09T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2010-06-09T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T03:50:07","slug":"japanese-taiwanese-renho-becomes-first-multicultural-cabinet-member-racist-dietmember-hiranuma-continues-ranting-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese-Japanese Dietmember Renho becomes first multiethnic Cabinet member; racist Dietmember Hiranuma continues ranting about it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 The new Kan Cabinet<\/a> started out yesterday, and it would of course be remiss of me to not mention that one of the Cabinet members, Renho<\/a>, has become the first multicultural<\/span> multiethnic Dietmember to serve in the highest echelons of elected political power in Japan.\u00a0 Congratulations!<\/p>\n

She is, however, a constant target of criticism by the Far Right in Japan, who accuse her of not being a real Japanese<\/a> (she is of Japanese-Taiwanese extraction, who chose Japanese citizenship).\u00a0 Dietmember Hiranuma Takeo most notably.\u00a0 He continued his invective against her on May 7 from a soundtruck, and it made the next day’s Tokyo Sports Shinbun.\u00a0 Courtesy of Dave Spector.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that this is a basically a rant about a Cabinet member by a former Cabinet member who will never be a Cabinet member again, an aging ideological dinosaur raging against tide and evolution.\u00a0 Sucks to be a bigot and in a position of perpetual weakness as well, I guess.\u00a0 Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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The new Kan Cabinet started out yesterday, and it would of course be remiss of me to not mention that one of the Cabinet members, Renho, has become the first multiethnic Dietmember to serve in the highest echelons of elected political power in Japan. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

She is, however, a constant target of criticism by the Far Right in Japan, who accuse her of not being a real Japanese (she is of Japanese-Taiwanese extraction, who chose Japanese citizenship). Dietmember Hiranuma Takeo most notably. He continued his invective against her on May 7 from a soundtruck, and it made the next day’s Tokyo Sports Shinbun. Courtesy of Dave Spector.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that this is a basically a rant about a Cabinet member by a former Cabinet member who will never be a Cabinet member again, an aging ideological dinosaur raging against tide and evolution. Sucks to be a bigot and in a position of perpetual weakness as well, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,52,12,4,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-good-news","category-hate-speech","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","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=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}