共同と毎日：甲府市「金髪碧眼」求人募集について報道
共同通信とTBSテレビ：『教師「金髪、碧眼が条件」英会話学校が求人ポスター』がようやく報道された。そして、毎日新聞も。
JT/Kyodo on foreign crime *decrease*, yet Mainichi focusses on increase
Kyodo/Japan Times reports that despite all the punditry about the foreign crime rise, that foreign crime has actually gone DOWN. Nevertheless, the Mainichi reports (in the J version, at least) on the bits that have gone up (while cleaning it up for the E version). Foreigners can’t seem to avoid a bum rap in the J media.
Economist: Police Confessions & J justice
Economist article on the new Suo film and police interrogations/confessions in Japan. Some links on what to do if arrested. DO NOT SIGN A CONFESSION IF YOU DID NOT DO IT, or you have sold yourself down the river.
GAIJIN HANZAI mag endgame: “out of stock”
Looks as though the threat of boycott worked. Letters from major distributors pulling the GAIJIN HANZAI mag off their shelves has led to publisher Eichi saying they will recall the issue; even Eichi’s website has “sold out”. Amazon remains the lone seller holdout… Used all this information very effectively in my speeches today…
Japan Probe: GAIJIN HANZAI publisher Saka responds
Shigeki Saka, Eichi Shuppan’s editorial director denied the magazine has any xenophobic sentences, claimed he’s not a racist and refused to apologize: ” I know there are some people bothered but if you read the magazine, you’ll see there’s no single discriminatory phrase, so I don’t know why I should.”
Review of GAIJIN HANZAI Mag: what’s wrong with it?
To deflect the cultural relativists and naybobs who make a sport of poking holes in any argument or social movement, it’s probably a good idea to give a review of the “GAIJIN HANZAI UNDERGROUND FILES” publication. and why it’s symptomatic of so much of what is wrong about a media which has insufficient safeguards against hate speech and defamation of ethnic groups.
UPCOMING SPEECHES IN THE KANSAI
Repeating this, as it was buried in a newsletter: MY SPEECHES NEXT WEEK IN KANSAI… AND “JAPANESE ONLY” T-SHIRTS SELLING OUT. STOP ME AND BUY ONE I will be on the road next week for ten days, travelling between Nara, Hikone, Wakayama, Kurashiki, Okayama, and Miyazaki. I will be making speeches (schedule follows), so attend …
GAIJIN HANZAI off shelves, apologies begin
Foreign press takes this up, books get withdrawn by distributors with apologies, and publisher defends this because of the need for debate, and that the word “nigger” is not offensive in Japan. Huh?
GAIJIN HANZAI Mag publisher “Joey Washington” a penname, not allowed
Whenever you publish something in Japan, you must put down the publisher’s name. On the GAIJIN HANZAI Mag, it is listed as “Joey H. Washington”, which is clearly a pseudonym… which is apparently not allowed….
The Times (London) Weblog on GAIJIN HANZAI Mag Issue
The Times (London) Weblog: “I’ll keep this brief because the tale is recounted in detail on other blogs – but there is an illuminating flap in progress over a magazine which appeared a few days ago in Japanese convenience stores. It is entitled Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu…”
「外人犯罪裏ファイル」雑誌コンビニ等で発売中
外国人住民コミュニティーで物議を醸し出したことですが、「外人[まま]犯罪裏ファイル」という雑誌はコンビニ（特にファミリマート）等とアマゾンで発売中です。内容はここです。
“BOYCOTT FAMILY MART”; Letter in E and J for you to download
Dear Family Mart Management:
I have always enjoyed being a customer of yours. However, I am gravely disappointed that you have decided to stock and sell a magazine entitled GAIJIN HANZAI URA FAIRU, which in my view offers discriminatory statements and images about non-Japanese residents of Japan.
Please remove this magazine from your shelves immediately and return them to the publisher. Please take care not to sell magazines of this type ever again in your stores.
Until you do, I will not shop in your store, and will tell my friends overseas and nationwide to boycott your stores. Non-Japanese are important customers too, and in this competitive market it will be no trouble for us to take our business elsewhere.
Sincerely,
Guardian UK on GAIJIN HANZAI Mag
Human rights activists said the magazine was indicative of the climate of fear of foreigners created by conservative newspapers and politicians, notably the governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara.
“It goes beyond being puerile and into the realm of encouraging hatred of foreigners,” Debito Arudou, a naturalised Japanese citizen, told the Guardian. “The fact that this is available in major bookstores is a definite cause of concern. It would be tantamount to hate speech in some societies.”
One section is devoted to the alleged tricks foreign-run brothels use to fleece inebriated Japanese salarymen, while another features a comic strip retelling, in graphic detail, the murders of four members of a Japanese family by three Chinese men in 2003.
Mr Arudou accused the mainstream press of exploiting the supposed rise in foreign crime by failing to challenge official police figures. Although the actual number of crimes has risen, he said, so has the size of the foreign population.
“The portrayal [of foreign criminals] is not one of a neutral tone,” he said. “They don’t put any of the statistics into perspective and they don’t report drops in certain crimes.”
Family Mart replies: GAIJIN HANZAI off shelves “within 7 days”
Family Mart replies to request to stop stocking problematic GAIJIN HANZAI magazine: “FamilyMart Japan will have this publication off their shelves within 7 days.”
Blogosphere: Boycott Family Mart (for selling GAIJIN HANZAI mag)
Japan Probe: “The magazine is disgusting, and I don’t think it would be out of line to use the word racist when referring to it. We here at Japan Probe are not going to let a mainstream convenience store like Family Mart get away with selling such offensive material. We would like to call for an international boycott of FamilyMart-affiliated convenience stores.”
DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 3, 2007
1) “GAIJIN CRIME” TABLOID MAGAZINE ON SALE IN CONVENIENCE STORES
2) UPDATE ON “WANTED: BLUE-EYED GAIJIN TEACHER” EIKAIWA WANT AD
3) TRIP TO TOKYO: NEW BOOKS, SABBATICAL, UNHCR MEETING, VICTIM OF VIOLENCE
4) UNIVERSITY GREENLIST UPDATE, AND BLOWBACK FROM BLACKLIST
and finally…
MY SPEECHES NEXT WEEK IN KANSAI…
PLUS “JAPANESE ONLY” T-SHIRTS SELLING OUT. STOP ME AND BUY ONE
Protest against Child Abductions in Portland, Oregon, Feb 2007
From Mark Smith at the Children’s Rights Network Japan–Debito There is another “Protest Against Japanese Abductions” coming up in Portland Oregon this Saturday, Sunday and the following week. (Feb 3,4,10,11). This is the FOURTH event so far, and promises to be the biggest yet. There are over 20 left behind parents, friends, and family known …
サンデー毎日:２chひろゆきが「オイラは閉鎖しない」と言い放した自信
有道 出人：「２ちゃんねるは有意義なサイトだと思いますよ。でも、こんなに名誉毀損の温床になってしまっては…。私はウソを書いた発言者の情報を掲示し、責任をとってほしいだけなのです。」
Zakzak:２ch マルサ動く…国税局職員の父親を直撃
日本最大の掲示板「２ちゃんねる（２Ｃｈ）」の管理人、西村博之氏（３０、写真）に対し、東京国税局査察部（通称・マルサ）が調査を開始したことが１日、分かった。現役国税職員を父に持ち、「年収１億円以上」と公言する西村氏だが、税金の納付が滞っており、このままでは差し押さえも時間の問題。２Ｃｈをめぐる金の流れの解明は、マルサの手に委ねられた。
“GAIJIN HANZAI FILE” pubs spectre of evil foreign crime
“GAIJIN [sic] HANZAI FILE”, apparently even available in convenience stores, publicizes all the evils that gaijin in Japan do, including “niggers” seducing our women on the street…
「ニューカマーのための実用ガイドブック」単行本出版決定！
単行本「ニューカマーのための実用ガイドブック・日本に定着するには 」
樋口 彰 と 有道 出人 共著
英語／日本語の対訳で、ほぼ２００ページ
２００７年夏期頃発売予定
“HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS” to be published March 2008
Divided into seven chapters closely reflecting the stages of assimilation into any society, WORKING GUIDEBOOK takes the reader through 1) entry procedures, 2) securing employment, 3) establishing one’s own business, 4) addressing possible problems, 5) planning for the future and retirement, and 6) participating in the development of civil society. We offer the information in easy grammatical English (for readers of English as a second language) and furigana Japanese on opposing pages. We hope this will serve a wide readership.
Yomiuri Jan 24 07 on foreigners “filling” J prisons
Interesting stats: About 3,200 inmates, 360 more than the capacity, are held at Fuchu Prison. Among them, about 550 are foreigners. The number is 1.3 times more than were incarcerated 10 years ago. Fuchu prison houses inmates from 46 countries who speak 35 languages. The figure has increased from 22 countries in 1986, and 39 in 1996.The number of foreign inmates nationwide was 5,312–2.6 times more than a decade ago.
“JAPANESE ONLY” T-SHIRTS ON SALE AGAIN AT DEBITO.ORG
Back by popular demand, Debito.org T-shirts with an authentic “JAPANESE ONLY” sign emblazoned on the front. Help spread awareness of the problem in the best of satirical traditions, by wearing your heart on your sleeve, and the issue on your chest!
DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JAN 25 07
1) IVAN HALL NOV 3 2006 JALT SPEECH ON DEBITO.ORG
2) ENDGAME FOR JAPAN’S QUEST FOR UNSC SEAT?
3) METROPOLIS ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTIONS
4) AP PRIMER ON J IMMIGRATION ISSUES
5) HUMOR…
a) How to deal with Japanese police ID checkpoints: have personalities.
b) Amorously noisy bathers cause trouble at onsen. Ban them too?
c) Yunohana’s “Japanese Only” sign copied into online video game.
d) First Debito.org Dejima Award: Town approves university only if no foreign students allowed
and finally.. “JAPANESE ONLY” T-SHIRTS ON SALE AGAIN AT DEBITO.ORG
Ivan Hall Speech text JALT Nov 3 06
Ivan Hall, author of seminal work CARTELS OF THE MIND (Norton 1997), described the systematic ways Japanese “intellectual cartels” in influential sectors of thought transfer (including the mass media, academic, and legal community) shut out foreign influences as a matter of course. He gave a marvellous speech in JALT Kitakyushu on November 3, 2006. It is my pleasure to premiere the full text on debito.org.
Otaru Onsens “Japanese Only” sign incorporated into video game
Surprise bit of pop culture: Incorporated into a video game and then cut, here is a scene where our hero gunman faces a door with a “JAPANESE ONLY” sign. Believe it or not, that is a copy and paste from the Otaru Yunohana Onsen sign!
Metropolis on J int’l child abductions
‘[Murray] Wood’s is just one of the 31 active cases of child custody and family distress that the Canadian Embassy is currently dealing with in Japan, a sharp increase from the 21 active cases a year earlier…. No Japanese court has ever caused a child abducted to Japan by a Japanese parent to be returned to the child’s habitual residence outside Japan. Part of the problem is that Japan is not a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which works to ensure the prompt return of abducted children to their country of habitual residence. “Japan continues to be a haven for international child abduction”..’
AP primer on Japanese Immigration issues
Pretty good article rounding up what we’ve been saying so far about the issues of Japanese immigration, particularly that of guest workers-cum-immigrants from South America reaching double-digit percentages of the population of some Japanese towns. Courtesy of Steve at The Community.
The article says few things which readers of this and other mailing lists don’t already know. But I’m glad to see this issue receiving wider attention overseas. Quite often it takes “gaiatsu” (overseas pressure) from exposure before the GOJ is ever shamed into doing something about its own social problems. For what do the policymaking elites care about these people? They care more about how it tarnishes Japan’s reputation overseas.
UPDATE: Visiting Immigration re Spouse Visa questionnaire
I visited Sapporo’s very friendly Immigration Bureau (Nyuukoku Kanrikyoku) yesterday to find out more about the Questionnaire (shitumonsho) for people marrying Japanese and applying for the appropriate visa. I talked to the Inspection Division (shinsa bumon) for about an hour regarding the requirements for certain types of visas based upon conjugal status. A fascinating discussion ensued about how Japan is trying to suss out fake international marriages.
NEWSFLASH: 2chan Comments in Wake-Up Plus TV and Sunday Mainichi
Some comments from me re the 2-Channel issue will be appearing Sat 8AM 1/20 on NTV’s “Wake Up Plus”, and also in Sunday Mainichi’s issue on sale Tues 1/23.
２ちゃんねる：読売テレビとサンデー毎日報道
NEWS FLASH 1/19(土)の読売テレビ（NTV)の「ウェクアッププラス」（午前８時から放送）とサンデー毎日（1/23)をご覧下さい。２ちゃんねるの件についてコメントが報道されます。
Endgame on GOJ push for UNSC seat?
I have the feeling that Japan may be approaching checkmate on getting its permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Using the appointment of Ban Ki Moon as the new UN Secretary General as an opportunity to put some wind behind their sails, the GOJ has gotten their ducks lined up: the major world powers (sans China) are falling for Japan’s arguments of quid pro quo.
東京スポーツ「２ちゃん閉鎖騒動・逆手に大儲け」
東京スポーツ新聞２００７年１月１７日より。Dave Spectorさまに感謝。（イメージが読みにくければどうぞクリックして下さい。）有道 出人
Dejima Award: Setaka Town approves foreigner-free university
Announcing the first debito.org Dejima Award for overt xenophobia: Chris Flynn reports that Setaka Town Assembly in Fukuoka Prefecture approved a university only if it would not bring in foreign students–as a crime-prevention measure.
２ちゃんねる:１６日NTV放送(youtube), debito.orgがサイバーテロ標的
１）１月１６日 ２３：０５より、NTV「ニュースゼロ」で
2ちゃんねるについて有道 出人とのインタビューが放送
２）夕刊フジによって「２ちゃんねるのXデー」の噂によって
違う裁判の原告の有道 出人はヘートメイルの標的となり
サイトのdebito.orgがやられた
３）ちなみに、毎日新聞の２ちゃんねるについての元旦特集記事
Mainichi: Criminal complaint re slander of school on 2-Channel
The operator of a school in Odawara where dozens of children who have dropped out of other schools are enrolled in has filed a criminal complaint with law enforcers over 2-Channel messages slandering the school.
毎日：２ちゃんねる：書き込み者を名誉棄損で告訴 神奈川の学校
２ちゃんねる：書き込み者を名誉棄損で告訴 神奈川の学校 http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/shakai/jiken/news/20070116k0000m040145000c.html インターネット掲示板「２ちゃんねる」の書き込みで中傷されたとして、神奈川県小田原市で不登校の子供が通う学校を運営する学校法人「湘南ライナス学園」（吉崎真里学園長）が、書き込んだ人物を被疑者不詳のまま名誉棄損などで県警小田原署に刑事告訴していたことが分かった。 告訴状は、０５年１２月〜０６年１０月、不特定多数が「学園長は精神異常者」「ライナスでは学力が低下する」などの中傷やうその書き込みをし、同学園の信用や吉崎学園長の名誉を損なった−−としている。同学園によると、中傷の書き込みは２０００件以上に上り、退学者や入学予定者の辞退が相次いだという。同署は４日に告訴状を受理し、書き込み人物の特定を進めている。同学園は、２ちゃんねる運営者の西村博之氏に書き込みの削除を求めたが、削除されていない。吉崎学園長は「不登校など事情のある子供の居場所としてようやく設立された学園なのに、根拠のないことを書き込まれ運営に支障が出ている」という。 同学園は、構造改革教育特区認定校に指定されたことを受け、０５年４月に不登校やＬＤ（学習障害）などの児童生徒向けに小・中・高一貫校として開校した。計４３人が通っている。【堀智行】 英文を読む 毎日新聞 2007年1月16日 3時00分
ZAKZAK: ２ｃｈ管理人に破産申し立て…３５歳被害者が手続き
日本最大の掲示板「２ちゃんねる」（２ｃｈ）の管理人、西村博之氏（３０）に対し、第三者破産が申し立てられていたことが１６日、分かった。１２日に東京都内の男性会社員（３５）が西村氏の全財産仮差し押さえを申し立てたことから「２ｃｈ閉鎖」の憶測が広がる中、西村氏の包囲網は確実に狭まりつつあるようだ。
debito.org website zapped by cyberelements
debito.org website got zapped today by cyberspace elements in apparent retaliation for internet BBS 2-Channel being taken offline after a lawsuit. Even though I had nothing to do with it (I support 2-Channel’s existence; it should just honor court decisions) and 2-Channel DIDN’T go down after all.
NEWSFLASH: NTV interviews Arudou Debito re 2-Channel Lawsuit
NEWS FLASH I got interviewed earlier tonight with Nippon TV (Ch 5 in Sapporo, Ch 4 in Tokyo). Details as follows: ///////////////////////////////////////////// 2-CHANNEL INTERNET BBS LIBEL ISSUE INTERVIEW WITH ARUDOU DEBITO, PLAINTIFF “NEWS ZERO” NEWS PROGRAM STARTS FROM 11:05 PM TONIGHT, JANUARY 16, 2007 ///////////////////////////////////////////// I’d send you a link for background on the issue …
MDN Waiwai: J bad bath manners :-)
Assuming that this is true: Gracious old rural inns, traditionally, have been places where Japanese go to relax in natural surroundings while soaking away their aches and pains in mineral hot springs. But, reports Shukan Jitsuwa (10/13), inns’ clientele of late seem to have other ideas. “The idea of 24-hour bathing was to let you get up early, and soak in the tub while watching the rising sun burn off the morning mist,” continues the kami. “Or, you could go late there at night and gaze at the starry sky. It made things all the more relaxing. But when you’ve got to worry about families bathing within hearing range of these noisy young couples, it’s really vexing.”…
MDN Waiwai on dealing with police checkpoints: have boobs.
A little humorous diversion. Mainichi’s Waiwai Page (a guilty pleasure–it really captures one facet of Japan’s fascinating media) has a story on how a Double model dealt with one of those nasty random NPA Gaijin Card Checkpoints: her personalities! Now, why didn’t I ever think of that?
ZAKZAK:２ちゃんねる、再来週にも強制執行
ネット界激震！！ 賠償命令を無視し続けてきた日本最大の掲示板「２ちゃんねる」（２Ｃｈ）の管理人、西村博之氏（３０）の全財産が仮差し押さえされることが１２日、分かった。債権者が東京地裁に申し立てたもので、対象となるのは西村氏の銀行口座、軽自動車、パソコン、さらにネット上の住所にあたる２Ｃｈのドメイン「２ｃｈ．ｎｅｔ」にまで及ぶ見込み。執行されれば掲示板の機能が一時停止するのは必至だ。
DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JAN 12, 2007
1) IMMIGRATION BUREAU VIOLATES PRIVACY OF MARRIAGE,
IN QUESTIONING J SPOUSES FOR LONGER-TERM VISAS
2) ECONOMIST ON THE BASIC EDUCATION LAW’S REFORM
3) BUSINESS CONSORTIUM INTRODUCING IC CHIP SHOPPING DEVICES
4) MORE LABOR ABUSES OF FOREIGN “TRAINEES” COMING TO LIGHT
and finally…
DEBITO’S EXPANDED ITINERARY: UPDATED SCHEDULE WITH OPEN DAYS
GOING THROUGH TOKYO, KANSAI, AND KYUSHU, NEED ME TO SPEAK?
MOJ Immigration Bureau violates privacy of marriage with new visa “shitsumon sho”
Want a visa of any duration longer than three months, and just happen to be married? Well the Immigration Bureau has instituted a new questionnaire, which asks you breathtakingly personal questions, such as what language you use at home, who came to your wedding, how much rent you pay, how and where and when you met (include photos, love letters, international phone bills), and how you learned Japanese. Why? Because they are Immigration and they can do whatever they damn well please to foreigners and their unfortunate Japanese spouses.
Economist/Japan Times on J Basic Education Law reform
Launching a series on what I see as a very serious issue (training people to be “patriotic” at the early stages of education, with “love of country” tests already happening in Kyushu and Saitama grade schools), here is an introductory article from The Economist (London) on Japan’s reform of its Basic Education Law (Kyouiku Kihon Hou).
I don’t quite share its analytical framework or its rosy conclusions, but it’s a decent primer on the issue. Further links to this issue on debito.org included after the article. Further links to this issue on debito.org included after the article.
Below that follow two more Japan Times articles showing the most recent policy push in its genesis, back in 2002 and 2003.
I’m sure I’ll be saying this many times in the course of analysis and argument from now on, but what of the international community and mixed-roots children getting their education in Japan? Will they have to make a choice about their national identity (one, not both?), or just be excluded altogether?
サンデー毎日：「外国人・少年犯罪は増えていない？」
ブログの皆様、２００６年１２月２３日付の週刊誌「サンデー毎日」は非常に大事な記事を載せました。このようなことは私たちは数年も指示しております。（２０００年４月より本格的に始まりました。私の単行本「ジャパニーズ・オンリー」（明石書店出版）第三章をご参考に。）参考サイトはこちらです： https://www.debito.org/NPAracialprofiling.html#nihongo https://www.debito.org/ishiharahikokusaika.html https://www.debito.org/hiyorimishugi.html https://www.debito.org/futouhanzaitaisaku.html https://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/nakanohittakuri.html#nihongo https://www.debito.org/immigrationsnitchsite.html#nihongo https://www.debito.org/japantimes101805j.html https://www.debito.org/crimestats.html では、記事（２ページ分）以降の通りです。久保さまに大感謝！有道 出人。 この記事の英訳は
J Times Jan 3 07 on foreign “trainees” facing chronic abuses
Launched by the government in 1993, the training and internship programs allow young foreigners to undergo language and other training for one year and to serve as interns at companies in Japan
for up to two years… In 2005 alone, as many as 80,000 young people came to Japan on the
programs. However, those in the programs are left unprotected by labor law. During the first year of training, monthly pay is limited to 60,000 yen — below the legally set minimum wage. Although monthly pay rises to around 120,000 yen over the internship period, employers often deduct management and other fees to cut net pay by tens of thousands of yen.
J Times Jan 3 07 on J Immigration, toku ni Chinese Perm Resid
Japan Times on how the foreign community, particularly the composition of its ethnicities, is changing. An interesting case study of one Chinese’s immigration to Japan.