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2015
My Japan Times JBC Column 86 April 6, 2015: “Japan makes more sense through a religious lens”original ↗
5 Apr 2015
ABC News Radio Australia interviews me on multiethnic Japanese Ariana Miyamoto’s crowning as Miss Japan 2015original ↗
3 Apr 2015
Spoke at Washington University at St. Louis Law School Colorism Conference April 3, on skin color stigmatism in Japanoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2015
Koike Yuriko in World Economic Forum: “Why inequality is different in Japan” (= because “We Japanese have a deeply ingrained stoicism”)original ↗
27 Mar 2015
JT: “Should Japan beef up its anti-terrorism measures?” Renewed political opportunism to further erode Postwar civil liberties, go soft on right-wing groupsoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2015
Renewed GOJ projections of hard and soft power: Yomiuri argues for remilitarization “to protect J-nationals abroad”, Reuters reports GOJ reinvestment in overseas universities, claims “no strings attached”original ↗
20 Mar 2015
NYT Opinion: Mindy Kotler on “The Comfort Women and Japan’s War on Truth”, an excellent primer on the issueoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2015
Kyodo: Japan didn’t meddle with U.S. “Comfort Women” textbook, Japanese Ambassador to US Sasae claims; meanwhile GOJ panel established to “Restore the Honor and Trust of Japan”original ↗
13 Mar 2015
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus carries full text of my interview with Dr. Ziegler on GOJ pressure to censor his history book of “Comfort Women”original ↗
10 Mar 2015
PNS: Deaths of unknown persons in the custody of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police: At least 5 in past yearoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2015
Suspicious recent death of NJ after being “restrained” on the street by Tokyo Police in daytime warrants more investigation and attentionoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2015
Japan Times JBC 85, Mar 5 2015: “US author recounts ‘lecture’ he got about ‘comfort women’ from uninvited Japanese guests”, with targeted textbook text on Debito.org for the recordoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2015
Japan Times: Inflammatory articles (such as Sono Ayako’s “Japartheid” Sankei column) aren’t helping mags’ circulation numbersoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2015
Kyodo: Foreign trainee slain, colleague wounded in rural Ibaraki attack, in oddly terse article (UPDATED with news of another underreported NJ death)original ↗
26 Feb 2015
Japan Times: UK inspectors say Japan’s Immigration Detention Centers are like “prisons”. In fact, they’re worse.original ↗
23 Feb 2015
Good JT article on historically-ignorant blackface on Japanese performers and “modern-day minstrel shows” in Japanoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2015
Debito.org quoted in South China Morning Post about Sankei Shinbun’s Sono Ayako advocating Japartheidoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2015
Sankei columnist Sono Ayako advocates separation of NJ residential zones by race in Japan, cites Apartheid South Africa as example (UPDATED)original ↗
12 Feb 2015
Tangent: AFP/Jiji: “Workaholic Japan considers making it compulsory to take vacation days.” Good news, if enforceableoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2015
Japan Today: Gov’t to tighten controls on foreign trainee program, by creating another special overseeing agencyoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2015
IPC Digital et al.: Shizuoka Iwata City General Hospital doctor refuses care to Brazilian child, curses out parents and tells them to “die” (kuso, shine)original ↗
31 Jan 2015
26 Jan 2015
Lawyer threatens Debito.org in 2009 re a 1993 article in The Australian Magazine on Japan pundit Gregory Clark. Had received reprint permission, so nothing came of it.original ↗
21 Jan 2015
Yomiuri: GOJ sky-pie policy proposes to deal with rural population decrease with resettlement info websites, and robots!original ↗
16 Jan 2015
Tangent: A debate I’ve been having on whether birthdays are to be celebrated or not. Discuss.original ↗
14 Jan 2015
Fukuoka Subway Poster Contest winner: Rude Statue of Liberty “overdoes freedom”, takes space from J passengersoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2015
Japan Times: Japan’s “Omotenashi” (“selfless hospitality”) not in tune with what visitors want, NJ expert warnsoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2015
My Japan Times JBC 83 Jan 1, 2015: “Hate, Muzzle and Poll”: Debito’s Annual Top Ten List of Human Rights News Events for 2014original ↗
2 Jan 2015
2014
Holiday Tangent: Hanif Kureishi on UK’s Enoch Powell: How just one racist-populist politician can color the debate in an entire societyoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2014
Grauniad: Police in Japan place anti-Korean extremist group Zaitokukai on watchlist; good news, if enforcedoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2014
DEBITO.ORG ELECTION SPECIAL DECEMBER 2014: A clear LDP victory, normalizing Japan’s Rightward swingoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2014
Japan Election 2014: “Why taboo?” Grotesque foreigner-bashing cartoon by Hiranuma’s Jisedai Party, features “Taboo Pig” sliced in half over NJ welfare recipients “issue”original ↗
11 Dec 2014
7 Dec 2014
My Japan Times JBC Column 82: “Time to Burst your Bubble and Face Reality”, December 4, 2014original ↗
5 Dec 2014
Ministry of Justice Bureau of Human Rights 2014 on raising public awareness of NJ human rights (full site scanned with analysis: it’s underwhelming business as usual)original ↗
30 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014
Japan Procter & Gamble’s racialized laundry detergent ad: “Cinderella and the Nose Ballroom Dance”original ↗
20 Nov 2014
15 Nov 2014
Louis Carlet et al. on the misunderstood July 2014 Supreme Court Ruling denying welfare benefits to NJ: “no rights” does not mean automatic NJ denialsoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2014
UH Manoa Center for Japanese Studies presents, “Japan’s Visible Minorities: Appearance and Prejudice in Japanese Society”, by Dr. ARUDOU, Debitooriginal ↗
7 Nov 2014
Japan Times JBC 81, Nov 5 2014, “Does social change in Japan come from the top down or bottom up?”original ↗
5 Nov 2014
Two recent JT columns (domestic & international authors) revealing the damage done by PM Abe to Japan’s int’l imageoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2014
Fun Facts #19: JT: Supreme Court denying welfare for NJ residents inspires exclusionary policy proposals by fringe politicians; yet the math does not equal the hypeoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2014
Osaka Mayor Hashimoto vs Zaitokukai Sakurai: I say, bully for Hash for standing up to the bully boysoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2014
Georgetown prof Dr. Kevin Doak honored by Sakurai Yoshiko’s JINF group for concept of “civic nationalism” (as opposed to ethnic nationalism) in Japanoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2014
From hate speech to witch hunt: Mainichi Editorial: Intimidation of universities employing ex-Asahi reporters intolerable; Sakurai Yoshiko advocates GOJ historical revisionism overseasoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2014
Japan Times JBC 80 October 8, 2014: “Biased pamphlet bodes ill for left-behind parents”, on MOFA propagandizing re Hague Treaty on Child Abductionsoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2014
JT on hate speech and GOJ’s connections to organized crime: “Yakuza do what Abe Cabinet’s Yamatani can’t”original ↗
4 Oct 2014
1 Oct 2014
Blame Game #433: JT on “Rumors of Foreign Looters in Hiroshima Unfounded”, “Social Media Rehashes Historical Hate”, and Economist on unoptimistic outcomes re hate speech laworiginal ↗
27 Sept 2014
Blame Game #432: J-Cast.com reports Mt. Fuji is covered in human poop, speculates due to increase in foreign touristsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2014
Debito receives his Ph.D. Sept. 18, 2014, at Meiji Gakuin University ceremony. Photo included.original ↗
19 Sept 2014
SCMP (Hong Kong) on MOFA Hague Pamphlet: “‘Racist’ cartoon issued by Japanese ministry angers rights activists”, cites Debito.org (UPDATE: Also makes Huffington Post Japan in Japanese & Al Jazeera)original ↗
16 Sept 2014
2014 MOFA pamphlet explaining Hague Treaty on Child Abductions to J citizens (full text with synopsis, including child-beating NJ father on cover & victimized J mothers throughout) UPDATE: With link to MOFA pdf and official E translationoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2014
Quoted in BBC Brasil (original Portuguese & machine E translation): “Japan receives criticism from the UN after wave of xenophobia in the streets”original ↗
10 Sept 2014
JT: Ishihara and Hiranuma’s conservative party to submit bill halting welfare for needy NJ a la July Supreme Court decisionoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2014
Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 79, on Japan’s Visible Minorities, Sept. 4, 2014 (version with links to sources)original ↗
5 Sept 2014
UN: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considers report of Japan 2014: Little progress madeoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2014
Nikkei: Another Japanese nabbed for being like a “suspicious foreigner” in Ibaraki. Adding it to the collectionoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2014
United Nations demands Tokyo introduce anti-discrimination law to counter hate speech (HRC report CCPR/C/JPN/CO/6 text included in full, citing “Japanese Only” signs, thanks)original ↗
23 Aug 2014
“No Foreigners” (and no women) Capsule Inn Omiya hotel in Saitama (UPDATE AUG 21: No-foreigner rule withdrawn, but lots more exclusionary hotels found on Rakuten)original ↗
17 Aug 2014
My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column 78, August 14, 2014, “Past victimhood blinds Japan to present-day racial discrimination”original ↗
13 Aug 2014
Colin Jones on NJ rights after the Supreme Court welfare verdict of July 2014: None but what MOJ bureaucrats grant youoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2014
Yomiuri: TV shows to get foreign-language subtitles by 2020 for “foreign visitors” to Tokyo Olympics. Nice, but how about for NJ residents now?original ↗
3 Aug 2014
Japanese hotel and restaurant bars all Non-Japanese — in Bangalore, India! And it’s shut down by the local Indian govt. within daysoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2014
SITYS: JT publishes lawyer’s analysis of J-cops’ arbitrary “stop and frisk” procedures. It’s now actually worse for NJ than Debito.org has reported before (correctly)original ↗
26 Jul 2014
JT: Japan needs to get tough on hate speech: U.N. experts and columnist Eric Johnston; why I doubt that will happenoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2014
In a stunning decision, Japan’s Supreme Court overturns Fukuoka High Court, rules that NJ Permanent Residents (etc.) not automatically eligible for social welfare benefitsoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2014
AFP: “Tarento Rola changing DNA of Japanese pop culture”. I wish her well, but the hyperbolic hype is not warrantedoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2014
JDriver on J Driver License renewals and questionable legality of residency/Gaijin Card checks to ferret out “illegal overstayers”original ↗
13 Jul 2014
Asahi’s AERA Mag July 14, 2014: Special on NJ in J globalized companies, says “Offices without NJ will not succeed”. Yet again panders to stereotypesoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2014
Unsuccessful protest against instatement of NJ CEO at Takeda Pharma: Note weird narratives of exclusionismoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2014
6 Jul 2014
Japan Times JBC 77 July 3, 2014,”Complexes continue to color Japan’s ambivalent ties to the outside world”, modified version with links to sourcesoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2014
Japan’s population tally in media still excludes NJ residents; plus J political misogyny and appeals to gaiatsuoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2014
Reuters Special Report on Japan’s “Trainee System” as “Sweatshops in Disguise”: Foreign interns pay the price for Japan’s labor shortageoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2014
Fodor’s Travel Guide on Japan 2014 features two chapters on Hokkaido and Tohoku written by Debitooriginal ↗
19 Jun 2014
MLB J-baseball player Kawasaki Munenori doing his best to speak English to North American media. Debito.org approves.original ↗
16 Jun 2014
World Cup 2014: Held in Brazil, but causes tightened police security in Tokyo due to alleged possibility of “vandalism”original ↗
13 Jun 2014
J-Govt. “We are Tomodachi” Newsletter Vol. 4 , June 2014 offers fascinating insights into PM Abe Admin mindsetsoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2014
My Japan Times JBC column 76: “Humanize the dry debate about immigration”, June 5, 2014, with links to sourcesoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2014
Asahi & Kyodo: Japan’s soccer leagues taking anti-discrimination courses, meting out punishments for racismoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2014
Tangent: Economist: China to become world’s largest economy by end-2014. Will USA react to being overtaken similar to Japan?original ↗
27 May 2014
Saitama’s Konsho Gakuen school, “Japanese Only” since 1976, repeals rule only after media pressure, despite prefecture knowing about it since 2012original ↗
23 May 2014