{"id":780,"date":"2007-11-23T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=780"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:34:36","slug":"fingerprinting-anger-in-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Fingerprinting: Anger in the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Lots to do this weekend in Tokyo at JALT, so I’ll be brief:<\/p>\n

In all my twenty years of Japan, I’ve never seen the NJ communities so angry. <\/p>\n

Not during the “gaijin all have AIDS” scare of 1986, the Otaru Onsens Case of 1999, the Ishihara anti-gaijin anti-crime “Sangokujin Speech” media campaigns of 2000, the “anti-hooligan” scare before and during World Cup 2002, the Al-Qaeda scare of 2005, or the “foreign crime is rising” National Police Agency media campaigns every six months. This time, there’s a very “faith no more” element to it all.<\/p>\n

I am receiving links to angry diatribes on the Fingerprint policy in the Blogosphere. Two that leave a lasting impression:<\/p>\n

Running Gaijin Card Checks
\nhttp:\/\/www.keepingpaceinjapan.com\/2007\/11\/running-in-fear.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Oppose Japan’s bid for The Olympics
\nhttp:\/\/nofj16.googlepages.com\/home<\/a><\/p>\n

If you know of any more, please send links to the comments section below. Angry, humorous, ironic, and\/or poignant is fine, racist is not, so exercise discretion. <\/p>\n

The point is, how else are NJ going to express their anger when they are this disenfranchised in Japanese society? Where the media machines for manufacturing consent will ultimately pit the entire Japanese society against the “gaijin”–through completely unfounded assertions of criminality, terrorism, and allegedly effective preventative measures which single people out for discrimination by race, nationality, and national origin. <\/p>\n

How else? The Blogosphere. Vent away.<\/p>\n

How things work over here to create “Team Japan vs. The World” has never come out as clearly as now. Arudou Debito in Tokyo\n<\/p>\n

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I’ve never seen the NJ communities in Japan so angry, and I’ve seen a lot of anti-foreigner campaigns in my 20-plus years here. After the Fingerprinting policy implimentation, there’s definitely a “faith no more” side to it all. Witness what’s going on in the Blogosphere–since that’s the disenfranchised NJ’s only real avenue for expression. Feel free to send some more links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}