{"id":9892,"date":"2012-01-24T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2012-01-25T03:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:11:35","slug":"nepalese-beaten-to-death-in-osaka-4-assailants-arrested-in-apparent-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9892","title":{"rendered":"Nepalese beaten to death in Osaka, 4 assailants arrested in apparent hate crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8577\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8577\" title=\"inappropriatecoverthumb150x226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\" alt=\"IN APPROPRIATE, A novel of culture, kidnapping, and revenge in modern Japan, By ARUDOU Debito\" width=\"149\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New novel IN APPROPRIATE by ARUDOU Debito<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot; width=\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?cat=32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4921\" title=\"debitopodcastthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/debitopodcastthumb.jpg\" alt=\"debitopodcastthumb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. What follows in my view is clearly a hate crime. It is reportedly a random singling out of a NJ by a group of four J youths who beat him senseless &#8212; even dropped a bicycle on his head, smashing his skull on the pavement. Fortunately (after a chase), they have all been arrested, no doubt after the security camera footage (below) made any plausible deniability of the event impossible. (In statements to the police, according to the Japanese media below, one assailant even insinuated that he couldn&#8217;t believe he had actually killed a foreigner. \u00a0Come again? \u00a0That&#8217;s the ultimate in <em>kubetsu<\/em> plus denial.) Story follows, then a quick comment from me:<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Japan Times, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Man beaten to death on Osaka street<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nn20120118a8.html\">http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nn20120118a8.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Osaka (Kyodo) \u2014 A Nepalese man died Monday after being assaulted on a street in Osaka early Monday by two men and two women, police said Tuesday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bishnu Prasad Dhamala, 42, died at a hospital after being attacked in Abeno Ward.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The police said they arrested Hiroki Shiraishi, 21, a tattoo artist, and his acquaintance, Miyoko Shiraishi, 22, at the scene after receiving a report about the assault.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The police are looking into the whereabouts of the other two assailants.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The four and Dhamala are not believed to be acquainted and the police are trying to identify the cause of the incident.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dhamala came to Japan about 10 years ago and had been working at a restaurant in the city, according to the police.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ends<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p>\u5927\u962a\u5e02\u30cd\u30d1\u30fc\u30eb\u4eba\u7537\u6027\u66b4\u884c\u6b7b\u4e8b\u4ef6\u3000\u73fe\u5834\u304b\u3089\u9003\u3052\u3066\u3044\u305f\u7537\u59732\u4eba\u3092\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u5185\u3067\u902e\u6355<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.search.yahoo.co.jp\/search?to=2&amp;rkf=1&amp;ei=EUC-JP&amp;p=%A5%D5%A5%B8%A5%C6%A5%EC%A5%D3%B7%CF%A1%CAFNN%A1%CB\">\u30d5\u30b8\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u7cfb<\/a>\uff08FNN\uff09 1\u670822\u65e5(\u65e5)13\u664233\u5206\u914d\u4fe1, courtesy of Dave Spector<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/videonews\/fnn?a=20120122-00000775-fnn-soci\">http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/videonews\/fnn?a=20120122-00000775-fnn-soci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u5927\u962a\u5e02\u30671\u670816\u65e5\u3001\u30cd\u30d1\u30fc\u30eb\u4eba\u306e\u7537\u6027\u304c4\u4eba\u7d44\u306e\u7537\u5973\u304b\u3089\u66b4\u884c\u3092\u53d7\u3051\u6b7b\u4ea1\u3057\u305f\u4e8b\u4ef6\u3067\u3001\u8b66\u5bdf\u306f\u3001\u73fe\u5834\u304b\u3089\u9003\u3052\u3066\u3044\u305f\u7537\u59732\u4eba\u3092\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u5185\u3067\u902e\u6355\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u6bba\u4eba\u306e\u7591\u3044\u3067\u902e\u6355\u3055\u308c\u305f\u306e\u306f\u3001\u5927\u962a\u5e02\u897f\u6210\u533a\u306e\u5efa\u7bc9\u5de5\u30fb\u4f0a\u6c5f\u5f18\u660c(\u3072\u308d\u3042\u304d)\u5bb9\u7591\u8005(21)\u3068\u3001\u5929\u738b\u5bfa\u533a\u306e\u7121\u8077\u30fb\u585a\u672c\u8a13\u5b50(\u304f\u306b\u3053)\u5bb9\u7591\u8005(21)\u3002<\/p>\n<p>2\u4eba\u306f1\u670816\u65e5\u3001\u963f\u500d\u91ce\u533a\u306e\u8def\u4e0a\u3067\u3001\u30cd\u30d1\u30fc\u30eb\u4eba\u306e\u30d3\u30b7\u30e5\u30cc\u30fb\u30d7\u30e9\u30b5\u30c9\u30fb\u30c0\u30de\u30e9\u3055\u3093(42)\u306b\u66b4\u884c\u3092\u52a0\u3048\u3066\u6bba\u5bb3\u3057\u305f\u7591\u3044\u304c\u6301\u305f\u308c\u3066\u3044\u3066\u3001\u4e8b\u4ef6\u5f8c\u3001\u89aa\u985e\u3092\u983c\u3063\u3066\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u5185\u306b\u3044\u308b\u3068\u3053\u308d\u3092\u902e\u6355\u3055\u308c\u305f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u3053\u306e\u4e8b\u4ef6\u3067\u306f\u3001\u5171\u306b\u66b4\u884c\u3092\u52a0\u3048\u305f\u6bba\u4eba\u5bb9\u7591\u3067\u3001\u81ea\u79f0\u30fb\u5f6b\u308a\u5e2b\u306e\u767d\u77f3\u5927\u6a39\u5bb9\u7591\u8005(21)\u3068\u3001\u767d\u77f3 \u7f8e\u4ee3\u5b50\u5bb9\u7591\u8005(22)\u306e2\u4eba\u304c\u3001\u3059\u3067\u306b\u902e\u6355\u30fb\u9001\u691c\u3055\u308c\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u8abf\u3079\u306b\u5bfe\u3057\u4f0a\u6c5f\u5bb9\u7591\u8005\u306f\u3001\u66b4\u884c\u3057\u305f\u3053\u3068\u306f\u8a8d\u3081\u3066\u3044\u308b\u304c\u3001\u6bba\u610f\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u306f\u5426\u8a8d\u3057\u3066\u3044\u3066\u3001\u585a\u672c\u5bb9\u7591\u8005\u3082\u3001\u300c\u307b\u304b\u306e3\u4eba\u3092\u6b62\u3081\u3088\u3046\u3068\u3057\u305f\u300d\u3068\u3001\u5bb9\u7591\u3092\u5426\u8a8d\u3057\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3002<br \/>\n\u6700\u7d42\u66f4\u65b0:1\u670822\u65e5(\u65e5)13\u664233\u5206<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p>See security camera coverage of the assault at this link:<\/p>\n<p>\u5927\u962a\u5e02\u963f\u500d\u91ce\u533a\u306e\u8def\u4e0a\u306716\u65e5\u3001\u30cd\u30d1\u30fc\u30eb\u4eba\u306e\u7537\u6027\u304c4\u4eba\u7d44\u306e\u7537\u5973\u306b\u6bba\u5bb3\u3055\u308c\u305f\u4e8b\u4ef6\u3067\u3001\u9003\u3052\u3066\u3044\u305f20\u4ee3\u306e\u7537\u59732\u4eba\u304c\u902e\u6355\u3055\u308c\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002(\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u671d\u65e5\uff09<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv-asahi.co.jp\/ann\/news\/web\/html\/220122002.html\">http:\/\/www.tv-asahi.co.jp\/ann\/news\/web\/html\/220122002.html<\/a><br 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\u8aad\u58f2\u65b0\u805e\uff09<br \/>\nends<br \/>\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENT<\/strong>: There is little more to be said except that this is hardly an isolated incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9500\">We&#8217;ve already mentioned here the Scott Kang and Matthew Lacey probable homicides<\/a> (&#8220;probable&#8221; only because the NPA essentially refuses to acknowledge that they were outright murders, and stonewalls attempts to release further data that would probably prove things conclusively). But go back a bit, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/Bortzpressconf.html\">you&#8217;ll find the Herculano Case, where a 14-year-old Brazilian boy named Herculano Reiko Lukocevicius\u00a0was similarly beaten to death on October 6, 1997<\/a> by a Japanese gang in Komaki, Aichi (<a href=\"http:\/\/shiga.sinsyu.or.jp\/~magia\/Eng-Hercurano-book.html\">information about a book on his case is here<\/a>); he was afforded much less press coverage (I&#8217;m glad the Japanese media is on the ball this time, with far more coverage in Japanese than in English). And of course we cannot leave out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9619\">the Suraj Case, which is even more insidious since his brutal death was at the hands of officialdom<\/a> (and may be but the tip of the iceberg, given Immigration&#8217;s history of ill-treatment of NJ while in detention). And if we stretch the issue even further, how about that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nn20120110a7.html\">recent curious &#8220;suicide&#8221; of a NJ suspect, accused of murdering two other Taiwanese students<\/a>, who was somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/2012\/01\/09\/taiwanese-murder-suspect-commits-suicide\/\">allowed to have a knife and sufficient mobility while in NPA custody<\/a>\u00a0presumably despite searches? \u00a0All curious lapses in standard procedure when a NJ is involved.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, I think it is time to retire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/meijigakuin071705.html\">the myth that Japan is preternaturally &#8220;safe&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/unsafejapan.html\">public maintenance of this myth not only gets in the way of honest accounting<\/a>, but also makes nationality an issue, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japantimes100402.html\">officialdom publicly states that foreigners commit more crime<\/a> (and therefore, the logic eventually ensues, shouldn&#8217;t be here in the first place). \u00a0Let&#8217;s face it: \u00a0When properly accounted for, reported, and considered without the bias of nationality either of victim or perp, Japan has its fair share of criminal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore people should be careful of being the target of basic covetousness, wanton prejudice and scapegoating, or even just random hatred. \u00a0After all, Japan has no effective laws to punish the last two (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/otarulawsuit.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8711&amp;cpage=1#comment-245979\">here<\/a>) if you have the misfortune to be existing while foreign here. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JT: A Nepalese man died Monday after being assaulted on a street in Osaka early Monday by two men and two women, police said Tuesday.  Bishnu Prasad Dhamala, 42, died at a hospital after being attacked in Abeno Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The police said they arrested Hiroki Shiraishi, 21, a tattoo artist, and his acquaintance, Miyoko Shiraishi, 22, at the scene after receiving a report about the assault. The police are looking into the whereabouts of the other two assailants. [who were later arrested in Tokyo] The four and Dhamala are not believed to be acquainted and the police are trying to identify the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>COMMENT:  This is clearly a hate crime. It is reportedly a random singling out of a NJ by a group of four J youths who beat him senseless &#8212; even dropped a bicycle on his head, smashing his skull on the pavement. Fortunately (after a chase), they have all been arrested, no doubt after the security camera footage (below) made any plausible deniability of the event impossible. (In statements to the police, according to the Japanese media below, one assailant even insinuated that he couldn&#8217;t believe he had actually killed a foreigner.  Come again?  That&#8217;s the ultimate in kubetsu plus denial.)<\/p>\n<p>There is little more to be said except that this is hardly an isolated incident. We&#8217;ve already mentioned the Scott Kang and Matthew Lacey probable homicides (&#8220;probable&#8221; only because the NPA essentially refuses to acknowledge that they were outright murders, and stonewalls attempts to release further data that would probably prove things conclusively). But go back a bit, and you&#8217;ll find the Herculano Case, where a 14-year-old Brazilian boy named Herculano Reiko Lukocevicius was similarly beaten to death on October 6, 1997 by a Japanese gang in Komaki, Aichi (information about a book on his case is here); he was afforded much less press coverage (I&#8217;m glad the Japanese media is on the ball this time, with far more coverage in Japanese than in English). And of course we cannot leave out the Suraj Case, which is even more insidious since his brutal death was at the hands of officialdom (and may be but the tip of the iceberg, given Immigration&#8217;s history of ill-treatment of NJ while in detention). And if we stretch the issue even further, how about that recent curious &#8220;suicide&#8221; of a NJ suspect, accused of murdering two other Taiwanese students, who was somehow allowed to have a knife and sufficient mobility while in NPA custody presumably despite searches?  All curious lapses in standard procedure when a NJ is involved.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, I think it is time to retire the myth that Japan is preternaturally &#8220;safe&#8221;.  After all, public maintenance of this myth not only gets in the way of honest accounting, but also makes nationality an issue, as officialdom publicly states that foreigners commit more crime (and therefore, the logic eventually ensues, shouldn&#8217;t be here in the first place).  Let&#8217;s face it:  When properly accounted for, reported, and considered without the bias of nationality either of victim or perp, Japan has its fair share of criminal behavior.  Therefore people should be careful of being the target of basic covetousness, wanton prejudice and scapegoating, or even just random hatred.  After all, Japan has no effective laws to punish the last two (see here and here) if you have the misfortune to be existing while foreign here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,10,13,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hate-speech","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","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=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}