www.debito.org
(November 1, 2002)

Hello readers, particularly those who read my briefing on the Otaru Onsen Lawsuit, or the Japan Times Zeit Gist Column of October 4, 2002

This page is to direct you to some links substantiating the claims I made in the articles.



First, about Tokyo Governor Ishihara's Chinese DNA remarks in the Sankei Shinbun, May 8, 2001, please see

http://www.issho.org/criminalgenes.html

His April 9, 2000 SDF remarks on the "foreigner roundups" in case of an earthquake are well reported elsewhere (as the "sangokujin" speech).



Second, about Japanese police and their crime-prevention tendencies towards "Racial Profiling":

A general overview is available at

http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/communityissues.html#police

The Shizuoka Police manual on how to pick out foreign criminals is available in its entirety at

http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/shizuokakeisatsuhandbook.html

The Mainichi Daily News Article on Nagano bank flyers criminalizing foreigners is at

http://www.mainichi.co.jp/english/news/archive/200102/22/news03.html

An excerpt from the previous report on foreign crime stats (March 2002) showing drops in foreign crime is available at

http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/crimestats.html

Information on detention procedures for arrested criminal suspects in Japan available at

http://www.debito.org/arrestperiods.html

And the US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Japan (Feb 23, 2001) notes "credible reports that police and prison officials physically and psychologically abused prisoners and detainees", available at

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/709.htm



Third, about the Miwa Locks foreigner-gang-proof lock advertisement, please see

http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/communityissues.html#gaijinimages



Fourth, the May 1, 2000 Sankei Shinbun headline alleging that foreign crimes going up six-fold can be found at

http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/sankei050100.html

with substantiation about how erroneous this was at

http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/crimestats.html



Lastly, the UN report on Japanese Immigration exigencies is alluded to in a Guardian article at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/population/Story/0,2763,531074,00.html

The Prime Minister's Commission on Japan's Goals in the 21st Century, issued January 18, 2000, is alluded to at

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/archive_mn/feb_2000-14mn.html
(link has expired)

and more details can be found via Google at

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Prime+Minister%27s+Commission+on+Japan%27s+Goals+in+the+21st+Century&btnG=Google+Search



As always, thanks for reading!

Arudou Debito
www.debito.org