{"id":851,"date":"2007-12-18T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=851"},"modified":"2009-11-18T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:30:48","slug":"debitoorg-podcast-dec-19-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"DEBITO.ORG PODCAST DEC 19, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEBITO.ORG PODCAST DECEMBER 19, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In this issue of the Debito.org Podcast:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1)  Debito&#8217;s latest Japan Times Column, which came out on December 18, on the beginning of the end:  How Japan&#8217;s xenophobia and closed-mindedness towards the outside world is now clearly not only hurting non-Japanese residents, but also destroying Japan for everyone&#8211;putting its very position as Asia&#8217;s leader and representative in jeopardy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2) James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly writes more poignantly and succinctly on what&#8217;s wrong with fingerprinting at Japan&#8217;s border than Debito could ever hope to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3) TV personality and music aficionado Peter Barakan is attacked by an unknown assailant in public&#8211;he and his hosts at a speech are pepper-sprayed, in a clearly-planned assault with even a rented getaway car.  Even though the police track down the car, the spray, and even a person inside, no arrests are made!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty five minutes.  As always, Duran Duran and Tangerine Dream excerpts are included to soothe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1)  Debito&#8217;s latest Japan Times Column, which came out on December 18, 2007, on the beginning of the end:  How Japan&#8217;s xenophobia and closed-mindedness towards the outside world is now clearly not only hurting non-Japanese residents, but also destroying Japan for everyone&#8211;putting its very position as Asia&#8217;s leader and representative in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>2) James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly writes more poignantly and succinctly on what&#8217;s wrong with fingerprinting at Japan&#8217;s border than Debito could ever hope to.<\/p>\n<p>3) TV personality and music aficionado Peter Barakan is attacked by an unknown assailant in public&#8211;he and his hosts at a speech are pepper-sprayed, in a clearly-planned assault with even a rented getaway car.  Even though the police track down the car, the spray, and even a person inside, no arrests are made!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}