{"id":8369,"date":"2011-01-13T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T00:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2011-01-13T18:43:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:43:47","slug":"alleged-mistranslation-at-japan-today-of-akb48-ingenues-anti-crime-activities-asking-nationality-of-perp-sop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8369","title":{"rendered":"Alleged “mistranslation” at Kyodo News of AKB48 ingenue’s anti-crime activities: Asking nationality of perp SOP for 110 calls?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes (46 today, won’t feel a milestone for another four years). \u00a0With no particular connection is today’s blog entry, regarding the possibility that that the NPA’s slip was showing.<\/p>\n

We had AKB48 (yes, I know what the acronym stands for, but I can’t help but think of it, not inappropriately, as a serial number) ingenue Maeda Atsuko doing public service for the police the other day (and boy it got carpet-bomb coverage by the media, see print articles alone below). \u00a0But the original and revised articles had a significant omission between them. \u00a0Alert Debito.org Reader RY reports below:<\/p>\n

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From: \tRY
\nSubject: \t110 Call center practices
\nDate: \tJanuary 12, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stumbled across your website several years ago and began following you again recently. Thank you for your work.<\/em><\/p>\n

I found this article on the Japan Today site. I read it to my husband who is Japanese and he replied “It must be in the manual”. Referring to the content in the second paragraph.<\/em><\/p>\n

I personally find it cumbersome to try to remember the difference for when to call 110\/119 but now we are supposed to determine the nationality of the perp as well!? Why not easier questions such as gender\/height\/build\/hair color?<\/em><\/p>\n

Ok I admit maybe those might be a little difficult to answer too with the herbivores running around and all the different hair die numbers. <\/em>Just thought this article was interesting. RY<\/em><\/p>\n

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AKB48’s Atsuko Maeda mans police call center
\nJapan Today\/Kyodo News Wednesday 12th January 2011, 01:08 AM JST<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/entertainment\/view\/akb48s-atsuko-maeda-mans-police-call-center<\/a><\/p>\n

TOKYO \u2014 Atsuko Maeda, 19, from popular idol group AKB48 this week visited a police emergency call center to publicize \u201c110 day,\u201d a day on which the public is reminded of the number to call in the event of an emergency. She took a mock emergency call from a witness to a robbery in order to experience the routine of a call center employee.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

She calmly asked, \u201cIs anybody injured? What nationality was the culprit?\u201d to gauge the situation before passing the information on to a nearby patrol car.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When asked about her impressions of the experience, Maeda replied, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to ask the right questions and get the information to officers as quickly as possible, and that it is not as easy as it sounds.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Debito here again. \u00a0Seems the Standard Operating Procedure for the NPA’s checklist of questions given our dapper detective involved asking whether or not the perp is NJ or not (no easy task, unless you accept the rubric that anyone who doesn’t look Japanese is a gaijin, which hardly narrows the field anyway). \u00a0But since it seems the NPA (or Kyodo News) is getting a bit more sensitive about how things might play in Peoria (or at least how it will come off in media “not meant for domestic consumption”<\/a>), we had the following “correction” made:<\/p>\n

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Er, “mistranslated”? \u00a0“What nationality was the culprit?” is a far cry from “How many suspects were there?” \u00a0My translation skills aren’t perfect, and I’ve been accused of liberally interpreting in the past, but sorry, I don’t buy it. \u00a0This doesn’t seem like a random string of letters that happened because the machine translator had a power surge or the proofreader had a stroke.<\/p>\n

I note that all the Kyodo Feed media now share the same correction as well. \u00a0Below are all the articles I could find on the subject in Google News. \u00a0Anyone find the actual original preserved in 2-chan amber somewhere, let us know.<\/p>\n

Kyodo News (as do all J media) have a habit of sweetening articles that may in fact portray their public-power subjects in a bad light. \u00a0Good example was Dietmember Etoh Takami back in 2003 claiming half the registered NJ population (as in a cool million) were all “murderers and thieves” (media kindly amended it to a mere ‘lots”, thanks for softening the blow apparently on our behalf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NPA, your racial-profiling slip is showing. \u00a0Nice try keeping it out of the media. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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UPDATE JANUARY 13, 2010 5:34PM JST<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Blog. I had plenty of time to think about today’s blog entry during my snowbound Sapporo commute to university today (a 35-minute drive took more than three hours), and I’ve come to the following conclusion:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It was in all likelihood a translation mistake.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I came to this conclusion thusly:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

1) I could find no evidence of an uncorrected Japanese version which mentioned nationality (there usually is one around the denizens of 2-Channel, but not this time).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

2) I find the mistranslation of \u4f55\u4eba (which by the way does not come out as “nani-jin” when I hit the henkan button) as possibly “what kind of person” (a possibly oblique reference to nationality in this circumstance) plausible — although that’s certainly something the professionals should have picked up on before publishing the article.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So this time I think I got it wrong — I doubt Maeda actually asked about nationality when she read her script. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I of course still stand by my assertions that 1) the NPA’s SOP involves racial profiling (particularly in their use of the unsophisticated and misleading label “gaikokujin-fuu” to categorize anyone as not “Japanese-looking”), and that 2) the media significantly alters the factual content of their news stories for overseas — or even domestic — consumption. Those acts are perfectly within character, as per the examples I gave in this blog entry. I just don’t think that this case is an example.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Never mind. My style is to make the assertion first and capitulate when wrong. I find it brings out people who are willing to go the extra mile just to prove it wrong. I’m wrong this time. I capitulate.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry for jumping to conclusions. Thanks for keeping it real. Arudou Debito<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RY: I stumbled across your website several years ago and began following you again recently. Thank you for your work. I found this article on the Japan Today site [about an AKB48 member doing public service for the NPA: <\/p>\n

Quote: She calmly asked, \u201cIs anybody injured? What nationality was the culprit?\u201d to gauge the situation before passing the information on to a nearby patrol car. When asked about her impressions of the experience, Maeda replied, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to ask the right questions and get the information to officers as quickly as possible, and that it is not as easy as it sounds.\u201d]<\/p>\n

I read it to my husband who is Japanese and he replied “It must be in the manual”… I personally find it cumbersome to try to remember the difference for when to call 110\/119 but now we are supposed to determine the nationality of the perp as well!? Why not easier questions such as gender\/height\/build\/hair color?”<\/p>\n

COMMENT: Making it more interesting is that afterwards Kyodo News and Japan Today removed this bit about questioning nationality, called it a mistranslation, and rendered it “How many suspects were there?” Sorry, I don’t buy it. NPA, your racial-profiling slip is showing. Nice try keeping it out of the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","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=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}