Hello Blog. Something interesting here. Friend passed on a link to a blog post as follows:<\/p>\n
=================================== This of course might be a hoax (you have to be careful about non-verifiable postings like these, and if it turns out as such, I’ll delete this issue from my blog with apologies). Still, might be worth checking into. Not all that difficult. Place a call to the NPA and see. Or ask around. Anyone have any friends in the police forces in Japan or other countries? Anyone know if there is a problem with police marrying non-citizens here or elsewhere?<\/p>\n Watch this space. I will add to this blog entry directly if there is something blogworthy. Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n ============================<\/p>\n REPLY: Nov 14, 2006, from The Community mailing list:<\/p>\n Apparently there is no bar whatsoever to police marrying foreigners. I have it on authority from a member of Tokyo Metropolitan Police who says there are 5 officers she knows of who are married to foreigners. If this girl’s boyfriend was threatened with bullying over a matter which is not a case of breaking rules, he should report whoever made the comments to an appropriate body.<\/p>\n ============================== ENDS<\/p>\n UPDATE: \u00a0A few more related articles have come out since this blog entry was written:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n J MSDF demoting military officers with NJ spouses (UPDATED)<\/strong><\/em> Also related<\/strong><\/em> Hello Blog. Something interesting here. Friend passed on a link to a blog post as follows: =================================== Hello. I am really down so I hope to get some help here. My boyfriend is japanese and I am german. We met in Japan ( working holiday…)and want to merry next year, because we are really sure …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-japans-blame-game","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15106,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/15106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHello. I am really down so I hope to get some help here. My boyfriend is japanese and I am german. We met in Japan ( working holiday…)and want to merry next year, because we are really sure about our love. The big problem we have is his job. He is a policeman. Policemen in Japan have to report their girlfriends when they become serious about their partnership. So my boyfreind reported me. After that we really had a lot of problems, because his organisation said that he can not have a relation with a foreign women. If he will go on with me, he will never get a promotion again and they will bully him at work. Yeah, that’s what they told him. The reason they gave us is to protect the Japanese Police Organitation and that after our marrigae is will be difficult to stop other policemen to merry with foreign women. For me it is simply racism! How could I be dangerous to the Police? I mean I am just a young women who wants to merry with love. What can we do? Of course my boyfriend thougth about chaning his job, but in this case they will get what they want. And there will be the same stupid old mind and discrimination in the Japanese Police like always. It should not be like that. Can`t we do anything against it? Is racism and discrimination really tolerated in Japan?
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\nOriginal post and more discussion at
\n http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/forum\/quereadisplay.html?0 30435<\/a><\/p>\n
\nANOTHER REPLY FROM THE COMMUNITY MAILING LIST
\nNov 14, 2006
\nI am married to a member of JASDF but he had to change his job when
\nwe met because he was in a “sensitive” field at the time. It was
\ntough for him as he loved what he had been doing and had to switch to
\nsomething he does NOT love. He also has a friend who quit JASDF to
\nmarry his Chinese girlfriend. I don`t think it`s policy for all jobs
\nwithin the Force but it definitely happens sometimes.
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\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=460<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Japan Times Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007<\/strong><\/em>
\nTHE ZEIT GIST<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe blame game<\/strong><\/em>
\nConvenience, creativity seen in efforts to scapegoat Japan’s foreign community<\/strong><\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/fl20070828zg.html<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"