{"id":7769,"date":"2010-11-13T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2010-11-13T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:06:02","slug":"weekend-tangent-weird-broadside-from-japan-helplines-ken-joseph-jr-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Tangent: Weird broadside from Japan Helpline’s Ken Joseph Jr. on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Last Monday morning I got a request for a friending on Facebook by a Ken Joseph Jr. \u00a0For those who have heard the name, he’s one of the advice columnists for the Japan Times Lifelines Page<\/a>, and according to his website<\/a> (email registry required), “Ken Joseph Jr. is an international columnist and speaker. \u00a0He appears regularly on CNN, Foxnews, BBC, ITN and numerous radio outlets worldwide to give commentary on the news of the day from a background of personal experience. \u00a0His columns regularly run in newspapers worldwide.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So imagine my surprise when I get a broadside of this tone from a person of this standing, mere hours after I friend him.<\/p>\n

(Screen captures of my Facebook page where he tries to hijack an unrelated thread; printed, names other than Ken’s and mine redacted, and scanned.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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COMMENT<\/strong>: \u00a0I’m not sure why KJJ has it in for me. \u00a0I met him just once (during the Kobe Earthquake of 1995<\/a>) when I went down to Kobe from Sapporo on my own dime to volunteer under the auspices of Japan Helpline. \u00a0It wasn’t a long encounter, I doubt KJJ remembers me. \u00a0But during the Otaru Onsens Lawsuit<\/a> he hit me with a similar broadside, claiming online that our refusal at Onsen Osupa in Otaru was a lie because he allegedly managed to wangle his way in (this has never been substantiated, although Osupa’s “Japanese Only” signs certainly were, as was Osupa’s refusal of us on September 19, 1999<\/a>). \u00a0He also popped up from time to time on an old yahoogroups discussion list called “Shakai<\/a>” (half deleted by Tony “Darling Foreigner” Laszlo<\/a>) under a different name “Kenichi Suzuki<\/a>” with similar broadsides<\/a>. \u00a0That said, we never corresponded directly like this online until Monday, when he asked to be friended.<\/p>\n

Don’t know what’s eating him, but a person who makes himself out to be this important should show more decorum in his comments. \u00a0Leaving a record of unprofessional broadsides (of questionable veracity to boot) like this is quite unbecoming. \u00a0And unconstructive, given that we should all be working towards the same goals. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Monday morning I got a request for a friending on Facebook by a Ken Joseph Jr. For those who have heard the name, he’s one of the advice columnists for the Japan Times Lifelines Page, and according to his website (email registry required), “Ken Joseph Jr. is an international columnist and speaker. He appears regularly on CNN, Foxnews, BBC, ITN and numerous radio outlets worldwide to give commentary on the news of the day from a background of personal experience. His columns regularly run in newspapers worldwide.”<\/p>\n

So imagine my surprise when I get a broadside from a person of this standing, mere hours after I friend him, accusing me of losing the argument by taking out Japanese citizenship (“Becoming Japanese negated your ability to stand up for the international community”), claiming I look like a nut for ever doing so, and demanding I get my American passport back. Problem is, the exchange makes him look more nutty, sad to say. And a number of other people soon jumped in to dispute the claims of ineffectuality.<\/p>\n

(Screen captures of my Facebook page where he tries to hijack an unrelated thread; printed, redacted, and scanned.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,12,26,13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussions","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-media","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}