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2018
BBC: Fukuoka Hilton Hotel refuses entry to Cuban Ambassador due to “US sanctions”. J authorities call action “illegal”. How quaint.original ↗
18 Nov 2018
JT: GOJ Cabinet approves new NJ worker visa categories. Small print: Don’t bring your families. Or try to escape.original ↗
10 Nov 2018
Nikkei: Japanese-Brazilians snub Tokyo’s diaspora residency program, attracting exactly ZERO applications after starting 3 months agooriginal ↗
30 Oct 2018
Nikkei Asian Review: “In rural Japan, immigrants spark a rebirth”. An optimistic antidote to the regular media Gaijin Bashingoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2018
Excellent Japan Times feature on dual citizenship in Japan: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy leaves many in the darkoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2018
SCMP: “Tennis queen Naomi Osaka a role model, says ‘Indian’ Miss Japan Priyanka Yoshikawa”. A little more complex than that.original ↗
26 Sept 2018
My Japan Times JBC Col 113: “Warning to Naomi Osaka: Playing for Japan can seriously shorten your career” (Sep. 19, 2018)original ↗
19 Sept 2018
Naomi Osaka’s US Open victory over Serena Williams: Congratulations, but I don’t think you know what you’re getting yourself into.original ↗
10 Sept 2018
Farrah on Hamamatsu’s city-sponsored “Gaijin Day” event: Problematic wording and execution, esp. given the history of Hamamatsu, and who attended.original ↗
3 Sept 2018
JT/Kyodo: Immigration Bureau to be upgraded to Immigration Agency April 2019. Baby steps towards Immigration Ministry with actual immigration policy?original ↗
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018
Trevor Noah controversy on French World Cup team: “Africa won the World Cup”. Debito.org disagrees with French Ambassador’s protest letter.original ↗
13 Aug 2018
GOJ sets targets for importing even more NJ temp labor, Kyodo editorializes on how badly Japan needs NJoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2018
NYT: Dr. Sacko, Kyoto Seika University’s African-Born President, claims no experience of racism in Japan. Just of “being treated differently because he doesn’t look Japanese”. Huh?original ↗
30 Jul 2018
Kyodo/Mainichi: Japan increases “nuclear security” before 2019 Rugby World Cup, 2020 Olympics (again, insinuating NJ are potential terrorists)original ↗
24 Jul 2018
My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE 112: “What about we stop it with the ‘whataboutism’?” (July 16, 2018)original ↗
15 Jul 2018
“Japanese Only” Osaka Nishinari-ku Izakaya Bar brags on Instagram about refusing foreign customers service for a laugh! (UPDATE: RETRACTED)original ↗
13 Jul 2018
Japan lowering age of adulthood to from age 20 to 18 in 2022: Also means Japan’s dual nationals now must declare by age 20, not 22.original ↗
8 Jul 2018
What I Learned Today #1: Hitler showed a documentary to Scandinavia, and got them to surrender in 1940original ↗
6 Jul 2018
Reuters/Asahi: New “minpaku” law stifles homesharing with tourists, on grounds insinuating foreigners are “unsafe” for children walking to school! (or ISIS terrorists)original ↗
30 Jun 2018
JT/JIJI: Japan plans new surveillance system to centralize NJ residents’ data. (Actually, it’s to justify police budgets as crime overall continues to drop.)original ↗
23 Jun 2018
NHK World: Japan’s social media “rife” with fake rumors after recent Osaka quake, including foreigner “thefts and burglaries”, “looting convenience stores”. Again.original ↗
18 Jun 2018
Japan Times: Preferential visa system extended to foreign 4th-generation Japanese [sic]: Allowing even NJ minors to build Olympic facilities!original ↗
11 Jun 2018
JT and Nikkei: Japan to offer longer stays for “Trainees”, but with contract lengths that void qualifying for Permanent Residencyoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2018
Sapporo Consadole player and former England Team soccer striker Jay Bothroyd refused entry to Hokkaido Classic golf course for being “not Japanese”original ↗
30 May 2018
“Japanese Only” diving and hiking tour company in Tokashikimura, Okinawa: “Begin Diving Buddies”original ↗
2 May 2018
Mainichi: Zainichi Korean’s hate speech lawsuit ends in her favor. Bravo. But Mainichi plays word games, mistranslates “racial discrimination” (jinshu sabetsu) into “ethnic discrimination” in English!original ↗
21 Apr 2018
Racial Profiling by Japanese Police in Tokyo Azabu: Uprizine’s Interview with Austin Freeman, a student at Temple University Japanoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2018
Japan Supreme Court enforces Hague Convention on Int’l Child Abductions (for Japanese claimants). Yet Sakura TV claims Hague is for “selfish White men” trying to entrap women from “uncivilized countries” as “babysitters”original ↗
30 Mar 2018
Asahi: Setagaya Ward plans to battle inter alia racial, ethnic discrimination (in specific) in a local ordinance. Progressive steps!original ↗
22 Mar 2018
Kyoto City Govt. subway advert has Visible Minority as poster girl for free AIDS/STDs testing. Wrong on many levels, especially statistically.original ↗
14 Mar 2018
My Japan Times column JBC 111: “White Supremacists and Japan: A Love Story” (March 8, 2018)original ↗
7 Mar 2018
Asahi: Japanese living abroad plan unprecedented lawsuit demanding dual citizenship. Bravo!original ↗
1 Mar 2018
Wash Post: South Korea’s naturalized athletes in the PyeongChang Olympics; beyond treated as mercenaries?original ↗
22 Feb 2018
Wash Post: “NBC apologizes to Koreans for Olympics coverage praising Japan’s brutal occupation”, rightly sooriginal ↗
15 Feb 2018
Kyodo: Official stats on NJ “Trainee” work deaths & accidents; 2x higher than J worker deaths, and likely understatedoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2018
JT: “Japan’s NJ workers reach record 1.28 million with labor crunch”; more grist for the grinderoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2018
JT: “Coming of age: 1 in 8 new adults in Tokyo are not Japanese”; underanalyzed stats posing as media pegoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2018
Hawaii’s false alarm missile attack of Jan 13, 2018. JT reports: “Hawaii residents spooked but Japanese sanguine”. Poor reporting and social science.original ↗
17 Jan 2018
A Top Ten for 2017: Debito’s Japan Times JBC 110: “In 2017, Japan woke up to the issue of discrimination”original ↗
3 Jan 2018
2017
XY: My experience with a Harajuku shop keeper – “F*ckin Foreigner kill” racist signs and threatened violenceoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2017
Working on 2017’s Top 10 Human Rights Events that affected NJ residents of Japan. What do you think should be included?original ↗
16 Dec 2017
Bitcoin purchasing and racial profiling by Quoinex and BITPoint Japan: Hurdles for NJ customers onlyoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2017
Mainichi: Ex-hate speech group core member regretful on anniversary of clampdown law. SITYS. Hate speech laws matter.original ↗
20 Nov 2017
Flawed academic article on Otaru Onsens Case et al.: “Discrimination Against Foreigners in Japan”, in Journal of Law and Policy Transformationoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2017
Reuters: “Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?” Japan asks, but celebrates Nobel author as its own. Very symptomatic of Japan’s ethnostate.original ↗
9 Nov 2017
Racism in US World Series against baseball pitcher Yu Darvish: Immediately punished, and turned into learning opportunityoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2017
October 2017 Lower House Election Briefing: LDP wins big again, routs Japan’s left wing, but some silver linings to be hadoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2017
Japan Times JBC 109: “‘Attach the evidence and wait for your day in court,’ says Turkish plaintiff after Osaka victory”original ↗
11 Oct 2017
11 Oct 2017
New Japanese “Party of Hope” remains unhopeful for Japan’s NJ residents, requiring new party entrants to deny all NJ voting rightsoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2017
“Japanese Only” rules mutate: Hagoromo-yu, a bathhouse excluding LGBT in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, in reaction to local same-sex-partner ordinanceoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2017
Nikkei: Japan’s “Japanese Only” apartment rental market may adversely affect NJ worker retention during labor shortageoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2017
Plaintiff Ibrahim Yener provides Debito.org with details on his successful lawsuit against “Japanese Only” Nihon Autoplaza car companyoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2017
Positive book review of “Embedded Racism” in “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity” journal (American Sociological Association)original ↗
5 Sept 2017
31 Aug 2017
My Japan Times JBC 108: “In wake of Charlottesville, U.S. should follow Japan and outlaw hate speech”, Aug 24, 2017original ↗
23 Aug 2017
Asahi: Japan treats 1 million foreign workers as ‘non-existent’, and shouldn’t. Another recycled hopeful article.original ↗
19 Aug 2017
Yomiuri: 4th generation Nikkei to get new visa status. Come back, all is forgiven! Just don’t read the fine print.original ↗
10 Aug 2017
Good news: Japan’s National Pension scheme lowers minimum qualification time from 25 years to 10!original ↗
3 Aug 2017
Book Review in SSJJ journal calls “Embedded Racism” a “must-read text”, “highly recommended reading to anyone interested in Japan’s future”original ↗
28 Jul 2017
Daily Show on overseas media interpreters’ self-censorship of Trump’s language: Japanese interpreter plays dumb, claims no way to express “grab ’em by the pu**y”original ↗
22 Jul 2017
One more Bucket List item removed: Meeting Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran; here’s my playlistoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2017
Amy Chavez JT obit on “Japan writing giant” Boye De Mente: Let’s not whitewash his devaluation of Japan Studiesoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2017
Mainichi Editorial on 1-yr anniv. of Hate Speech Law: “To end hate speech, Japan must face its deep-rooted discriminatory thinking”, offers moral support but few concrete proposalsoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2017
Denver Post columnist Terry Frei fired after racist tweet re Japanese driver’s Indy 500 win (contrast with how J media treated Nigerian-Japanese HS baseball player Okoye Rui)original ↗
13 Jun 2017
Japan Times cites Debito on “Tackling [anti-foreigner] signs in Japan that you’re not welcome”, including Tokyo Harajuku Takeshita Doorioriginal ↗
6 Jun 2017
Abe Admin backlashes against UN Rapporteur criticism against Conspiracy Bill, overseas Gaijin Handlers kick into gearoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2017
Tangent: NPR: journalist Tom Ricks and how Western society operates best when it assumes an objective reality, and values facts over opinionsoriginal ↗
28 May 2017
Kyodo: “A year after enactment of hate speech law, xenophobic rallies down by nearly half”, but hateful language continues, mutatesoriginal ↗
22 May 2017
Japan’s High School Hair Police: Asahi on “Survey: 57% of Tokyo HSs demand hair-color proof”. Still.original ↗
18 May 2017
Asahi: Joe Kurosu MD on ineffectually low doses of medicine for NJ patients and bureaucratic intransigenceoriginal ↗
13 May 2017
Reader StrepThroat: Medical prescriptions for foreign patients gauged to ineffectual children’s doses, regardless of patient size considerationsoriginal ↗
8 May 2017
Nikkei: ‘No foreigners allowed’: Survey shows heavy discrimination in Japan (which editorializing Nikkei Asian Review tries to excuse and dismiss)original ↗
4 May 2017
Japan Times JBC column 107: “Time to act on insights from landmark survey of Japan’s foreign residents” Apr 26, 2017original ↗
26 Apr 2017
Fukushima Pref Police HQ online poster asking for public vigilantism against “illegal foreign workers, overstayers”original ↗
23 Apr 2017
Yomiuri on “Sharp decline in tourist spending”, with GOJ measures to certify NJ in “Cool Japan” for preferential visasoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2017
Cautionary tale: Bern on how a lack of protections against harassment in Japan’s universities targets NJ regardless of Japan savviness and skill leveloriginal ↗
12 Apr 2017
NHK repeatedly racially profiles prototypical criminal (the only NJ person in a crowd) on TV program Close-Up Gendai, Apr 5, 2017original ↗
7 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017
Unprecedented Ministry of Justice survey of NJ discrimination results out, officially quantifies significantly high rates of unequal treatmentoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2017
17 Mar 2017
12 Mar 2017