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「ジャパニーズ・オンリー」

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キャ プション

  「アジア人お断り」。もし海外 でこの看板を目にしたら、どう思いますか?
 「外国人お断り」という看板を 掲げた小樽市内の入浴施設が、一律に、外国人のような外見の人の入浴を拒否した。 これは人種差別ではないのか?ある外国人らはそう抗議を始め、この問題が世界的に 知り渡った。そして永年、市をはじめとする行政がこうした状態を放置したため、入 浴施設と小樽市を提訴し、現在は継続中。この問題の発端から現在までを原告一人、 有道出人が書いた本書は日本に鋭く問いかけるーー日本の真の国際化とは何か?日本 における人権とは何か?

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If you saw signs up in public places saying "No Coloreds", what would you do?  See them as relics of a bygone era, a la US Segregation or South African Apartheid?  Not in Japan, where even today "Japanese Only" signs, excluding people who look "foreign", may be found nationwide, thanks to fear and opportunism arising from Japan's internationalization and economic decline.

JAPANESE ONLY is the definitive account of the Otaru Onsens Case, where public bathhouses in Otaru City, Hokkaido, put up "no foreigners allowed" signs to refuse entry to Russian sailors, and in the process denied service to Japanese.  One of Japan's most studied postwar court cases on racial discrimination, this case went all the way to Japan's Supreme Court, and called into question the willingness of the Japanese judiciary to enforce Japan's Constitution. 

Written by one of the plaintiffs to the lawsuit, a bilingual naturalized citizen who has lived in Japan for 25 years, this highly-readable first-person account chronologically charts the story behind the case and the surrounding debate in Japanese media between 1999 and 2005.  The author uncovers a side of Japanese society that many Japanese and scholars of Japan would rather not discuss:  How the social determination of "Japanese" inevitably leads to racism.  How Japan, despite international treaties and even its own constitutional provisions, remains the only modern, developed country without any form of a law against racial discrimination, resulting in situations where foreigners and even Japanese are refused service at bathhouses, restaurants, stores, apartments, hotels, schools, even hospitals, simply for looking too "foreign".  How Japan officially denies the existence of racial discrimination in Japan (as its allegedly homogeneous society by definition contains no minorities), until the Sapporo District Court ruled otherwise with Otaru Onsens.

JAPANESE ONLY also charts the arc of a public debate that reached extremes of xenophobia:  Where government-sponsored fear campaigns against "foreign crime" and "illegal foreigners" were used to justify exclusionism.  Where outright acts of discrimination, once dismissed as mere "cultural misunderstandings", were then used as a means to "protect Japanese" from "scary, unhygienic, criminal foreigners" and led to the normalization of racialized hate speech.  Where even resident foreigners turned on themselves, including Japan Times columnist Gregory Clark's repeated diatribes against "bathhouse fanatics", and future "My Darling is a Foreigner" manga star Tony Laszlo's opportunistic use of activism to promote his own agenda at the expense of the cause.  Where the plaintiffs stay the course despite enormous public pressure to drop the lawsuit (including death threats), and do so at great personal risk and sacrifice.  Remaining in print since its first publication in 2003, JAPANESE ONLY remains a testament to the dark side of race relations in Japan, and contains a taut story of courage and perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Now for the first time in ebook format, this Tenth Anniversary Edition in English offers a new Introduction and Postscript by the author, updating the reader on what has changed, what work remains to be done, and how Japan in fact is reverse-engineering itself to become more insular and xenophobic in the 2010s.  Called "a reasoned and spirited denunciation of national prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry" (Donald Richie, legendary Japanologist), "clear, well-paced, balanced and informative" (Tom Baker, The Daily Yomiuri), "a personal and fascinating account of how this movement evolved, its consequences and how it affected those who participated in it" (Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times), and "the book of reference on the subject for decades to come and should be required reading for anyone studying social protest" (Robert Whiting, author of You've Gotta Have Wa), JAPANESE ONLY is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Japan's future direction in the world and its latent attitudes towards outsiders. More reviews here.  Preview and download from here.

BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS
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If you saw signs up in public places saying "No Coloreds", what would you do? See them as relics of a bygone era, a la US segregationism or South African apartheid? Not so in Japan, where today "Japanese Only" signs, excluding people who "look foreign", are proliferating nationwide--thanks to fear and opportunism arising from Japan's inevitable internationalization.

Naturalized Japanese citizen ARUDOU Debito, formerly Dave Aldwinckle, offers this first-person narrative account of his experiences dealing with exclusionary onsen bathhouses in Otaru City, Hokkaido, Japan.

As the case transforms from an international issue into a domestic policy push, he meticulously charts the obstacles--interpersonal, ideological, journalistic, governmental, and judicial--which he and his friends encounter in their quest for justice and equal protection of the law.

Instructive to those interested in improving their lot as residents of a foreign country,
JAPANESE ONLY is also a non-academic read for people with even a passing interest in Japan, or in human rights and social movements in the age of the Internet.

2006 EDITION now includes 2005 Supreme Court decision text and INDEX for your research ease.
INDEX for 2004 edition of "JAPANESE ONLY" is available online here

REVIEWS:

(More reviews as they come out.)

COMMENTS FROM GENERAL READERS: (email me here--I love feedback!)

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(1) The English site of Akashi Shoten Inc. at http://www.akashi.co.jp
Or contact
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Phone (in Japan): 03-5818-1171, FAX: 03-5818-1174
The book will arrive C.O.D. (chaku barai) to your mailing address, meaning you pay cash to the delivery person for the book plus postage.
(2) Via internet bookseller Amazon.co.jp (Amazon Japan has the book blurb in Japanese, but pay no attention. As entitled, it is the English version, and you can still use the shopping cart and make your purchase in English.)
(The book is not available at Amazon.com, sorry)
(3) Any Japanese bookstore, especially those which sell English-language books (like Kinokuniya, Maruzen, etc.)
All they need is the ISBN.
(which is, 4-7503-9018-6)
It's a book published in Japan, so theoretically there should be no problem. I have personally confirmed that
Tower Records Shibuya 7F, Maruzen Osaka, and Kinokuniya Sapporo stock it.
If you can't find it, give the ISBN to the clerks at the counter, or click here to download an order form
for shopkeeps to FAX the publisher. (updated version in pdf format here)
Recommend choice (2) for credit card users, and choice (3) for urban shoppers. Either option saves you postage.

While I'm at it: If you think your local foreign-books store should stock JAPANESE ONLY, could you please ask the management to order a few extra copies? People have often been buying the Japanese and English versions as a set (for their Japanese friends or spouse), so perhaps suggest they put them together in the foreign books (yousho) section?
I am visiting as many bookstores as possible to promote the book myself, but of course can't get everywhere. If you could help out, thanks: download some bilingual order forms here. All you have to do is give them the form and they will fax it to my publisher at their leisure. Reassure them if necessary that any books left unsold can be returned to the publisher at no cost to the bookstore. Thanks!


INTERNATIONAL (i.e. outside of Japan)
You have basically one option:
(1) Order via internet bookseller Amazon.co.jp (Amazon Japan has the book blurb in Japanese, but pay no attention. As entitled, it is the English version, and you can still use the shopping cart and make your purchase in English.)
Bulk orders (i.e. five or more copies), or if you are an overseas academic institution ordering this as a class textbook, please contact Akashi Shoten's Eigyoubu at eigyo@akashi.co.jp
Click on the buttons below to place and view your order (of up to five copies):

 

ENGLISH VERSION: 424 pages, 3500 yen,  ISBN: 4-7503-9018-6
eBOOK Version 2013:  US $9.99 or conversion equivalent (around 900 yen) on Amazons/B&N Worldwide

JAPANESE VERSION: 272 pages, 2500 yen, ISBN: 4-7503-9011-9
On sale now through these contact details.

(More on the Otaru Onsens Case and Lawsuit here)
Book reviews in Japanese of the Japanese version follow immediately below:

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書 評

200498日現在)

人権新聞(自由人権協会 (JCLU)発行)書評 2003728

民団新聞 200372日 pg 2

International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shinbun May 31-June 1, 2003, pg 30

北海道新聞「ほっかいどうの本」2003525日(朝)pg 15

産経新聞 「本・BOOK」欄 2003511

月刊誌「論座」20036月号 pg 314-5 鎌 田 慧氏 著

朝日新聞「読書」欄 2003427日(朝)pg 8

毎 日新聞(2003420日(朝)札幌版) pg 26

週刊金曜日 2003418日号(No.456pg 41



民団新聞  200372日 pg 2


人権新聞(自由人権協会(JCLU)発行)書評  2003728


International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shinbun May 31-June 1, 2003, pg 30



北海道新聞 「ほっかいどうの本」2003525



産経新聞「 本・BOOK」欄 2003511日 より:


月刊誌 「論座」03年6月号、トップレビュー(315ページ) 鎌田 慧氏 著


朝日新 聞「読書」欄 2003427日(朝)より:


『週 刊金曜日』2003418日号(No.456)より:


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