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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Table of Contents:
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1) Reuters and ABC News: Tokyo 2020 chief Mori makes sexist remarks at Olympics meeting. It’s been within character for decades now, so retire him.
2) Kyodo: Japan developing GPS tracking system for foreign travelers as “anti-virus measure”. So Covid is now another international event, justifying more policing of foreigners only?
3) Kyodo: Tokyo District Court rules in favor of Japan’s ban on dual nationality. My, what paranoia and hypocrisy
4) Full text of SNA VM column 3 now archived on Debito.org: “Racial Profiling at Japanese Hotel Check-Ins”, October 23, 2019
… and finally…
5) My SNA Visible Minorities column 18: “Latest visa rules could purge any foreigner” (Jan 18, 2021), on how Covid countermeasures disproportionately target Non-Japanese against all science or logic
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By Debito Arudou, Ph.D. (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org Twitter @arudoudebito)
Debito.org Newsletters as always are freely forwardable
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1) Reuters and ABC News: Tokyo 2020 chief Mori makes sexist remarks at Olympics meeting. It’s been within character for decades now, so retire him.
ABC News: Mori, an 83-year-old former prime minister of Japan, made the remarks during an executive meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee that was held online Wednesday. When giving his “private opinion” about the committee’s goal of increasing the number of female board directors from 20% to more than 40%, Mori expressed concern about how that would affect the length of meetings, according to a report by The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest daily newspapers. […]
“A meeting of an executive board that includes many women would take time,” Mori was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “Women are competitive. When someone raises his or her hand and speaks, they probably think they should speak too. That is why they all end up making comments.” [..] Speaking at a hastily-prepared press conference on Thursday, Mori confirmed he made the comments and offered an apology. “It was an inappropriate remark that went against the spirit of the Olympics and Paralympics,” he said. “I deeply regret it and would like to sincerely apologize to anyone whom I have offended.” When asked about the calls for his resignation, Mori told reporters: “I’m not considering resigning.” […]
COMMENT FROM SUBMITTER MG: “Just wanted to send another bit of good Debito fodder from our ol’ buddy Mori Yoshiro. Just another reminder of what a terrible choice it was to hire this jerk to head an Olympics that really should just never have been handed to Japan in the first place when there was still a ruined Tohoku that needed rebuilding. Were it not for the long-term economic consequences that will follow my beloved adopted home country due to folly of these Games, I would surely enjoy the schadenfreude of a group of elites getting egg all over their face.”
COMMENT FROM DEBITO: Mori, one of Japan’s least-popular Prime Ministers ever, is the type of Japan elite dinosaur zombie politician (in the same vein as equally useless Former PM Aso Taro) who feels he can say whatever bigoted thing pops into his head (as I cover in this blog entry, he’s made many other racist statements), and not be held accountable. Because he never really has. Despite being a lousy leader, he just keeps on getting jobs leading things — such as high-profile sports committees (the Rugby World Cup in 2019) that turn into international embarrassments. As it has again today. To Japan, tolerating Mori Yoshiro is like tolerating gaffes from the UK’s Prince Philip. But Mori is not royalty, endured only because his position is essential upholding an apparently sacrosanct system. He should be retired from public service immediately even if he refuses to resign. It’s obviously long overdue.
https://www.debito.org/?p=16414
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2) Kyodo: Japan developing GPS tracking system for foreign travelers as “anti-virus measure”. So Covid is now another international event, justifying more policing of foreigners only?
In a development that Debito.org has been anticipating for quite some time (see, for example, the remotely-trackable RFID chipped Zairyuu Kaado ID cards the Government rolled out in 2012 to keep better tabs on NJ Residents), according to a Kyodo article below the Government is using the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as an excuse to enact programs digitally tracking all foreign tourists.
Nothing quite like being forced to wear the equivalent of a GPS criminal tracker for your entire stay. And it’s not a stretch to see it being applied beyond tourists to NJ Residents after that, as Covid is providing a pretense to “track and trace” those “foreign clusters”. As CNN notes, “If visitors are allowed [to attend the Olympics], their experience will likely be high-tech. The government is developing a contract tracing app for attendees using GPS that will reportedly link visas, proof of test results, tickets and other information, authorities said.”
Visas? So we’re getting Immigration involved? As Submitter JDG notes, “Obviously, it’s just a matter of time until the Japanese demand all NJ are 24/7 tracked legally in real time with an automated alert popping up on some koban monitor the minute their visas expire. That ought to end that nefarious den of crime right there! Whew.”
So with the advance of technology, the dragnet further tightens on “the foreign element” in Japan. As we have seen with the G8 Summits, the 2002 soccer World Cup, the 2019 Rugby World Cup, “Visit Japan” tourism campaigns in general, and now the 2020 Olympics, international events in Japan serve to inflame its knee-jerk “safety and security” reflexes, and justify all manner of bad overpolicing habits. They essentially become an excuse to invite foreigners in, then police them further.
https://www.debito.org/?p=16363
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3) Kyodo: Tokyo District Court rules in favor of Japan’s ban on dual nationality. My, what paranoia and hypocrisy
In a landmark ruling yesterday (see articles below) first testing the waters for allowing Japanese to have more diverse roots in a legal sense, the Tokyo District Court has just ruled that Japanese who obtain other citizenships do not have constitutional protections from being subsequently deprived of Japanese citizenship. This means:
a) If you as a Japanese citizen naturalize in another country, then when the Japanese government decides to take away your Japanese citizenship, you have no legal recourse under the Japanese Constitution. It can be unilaterally revoked at the government’s discretion.
b) If you as a native-born Japanese citizen have dual nationality due to having international parents, and if you do not declare to the Japanese government that you are a Japanese citizen only (and have renounced all other citizenships by age 22 — as Osaka Naomi, referred to below, reportedly did), then the Japanese government can revoke your Japanese citizenship and not deprive you of any Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
Conclusion: Essentially, nothing has changed in practice. The lower judiciary has essentially just made its stance against dual nationality clear. Take into account that this ruling, handed down by a notoriously conservative branch of Japan’s judiciary (yes, Tokyo District and High Courts are actually well-known around the Japanese legal community for their very conservative judgments), has merely affirmed what was already true: “two passports = untrustworthy”. And their legal reasoning mentioned in the articles below reflects that logic, based upon paranoid pre-war arguments about individual mixed allegiances threatening the motherland, etc., with no need to update for the complexities of the modern world. Should the plaintiffs decide to appeal this case, then the Tokyo High Court and probably eventually the Supreme Court will affirm the lower court’s ruling. So it’s definitive.
What to do about it: Continue to follow Debito.org’s advice: If you have two passports, you always claim to be solely Japanese by age 22 but secretly keep renewing your foreign passport. The Japanese government is still not fully enforcing any draconian “show us a revoked foreign passport by age 22 or we will revoke your Japanese citizenship” towards all its citizens with international roots. Given Japan’s dropping population, that’s probably not in its interest. But if the Japanese government ever gets around to doing that, based upon yesterday’s ruling, as far as the Japanese judiciary is concerned it will have free rein.
https://www.debito.org/?p=16393
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4) Full text of SNA VM column 3 now archived on Debito.org: “Racial Profiling at Japanese Hotel Check-Ins”, October 23, 2019
SNA: In Japan, your first experience might be with your apartment search—realtors may deny you a home simply because “the landlord doesn’t like foreigners.”
Sadly, there’s little you can do: racial discrimination is not illegal in Japan, even in 2019. You could report what happened to the Ministry of Justice’s Human Rights Bureau (which will generally do nothing), or take them to court where you’re at the mercy of a judge susceptible to narratives of “foreigners are different/difficult, so refusing them is okay,” which is known legally as “rational discrimination.” Still, you will need a place right away to call home.
Eventually, after getting an interlocutor to negotiate or an employer to vouch for you, you find one. You’ll forget about what happened. Something like this doesn’t happen every day, right?
But it may occur the next time you want a hotel room. Given the tourism boom and hosted international sports events, racial profiling and discrimination have become widespread in Japan’s hoteling industry. This is particularly insidious because it’s not just the occasional bigoted landlord calling the shots; this time it’s the Japanese police…
Full text now up at https://www.debito.org/?p=15804
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… and finally…
5) My SNA Visible Minorities column 18: “Latest visa rules could purge any foreigner” (Jan 18, 2021), on how Covid countermeasures disproportionately target Non-Japanese against all science or logic
SNA: New year, new salvo of foreigner bashing: Last week, the Suga administration unveiled re-entry rules that permit non-Japanese residents to re-enter the same as Japanese, as long as they completed the same paperwork and fourteen-day quarantine. Good, but here’s the wrinkle: If you are found in violation of any quarantine regulations, you don’t just get in trouble like Japanese by, err, having your name made public. You may lose your visa status and get deported from the country. You read that right.
This policy was in reaction to the discovery of the United Kingdom mutation of Covid within Japan this month. But like most policy created in times of shock, it has hasty assumptions: that a foreign variant meant that foreigners were somehow responsible. In fact, the Patient Zeroes who came back from England and went out partying instead of quarantining were Japanese.
This new policy is ironic. In addition to the past year of Japanese media blaming foreigners for creating “foreign clusters,” it also ignores the lazy government response to Covid. Nobody at the national level wanted to take the responsibility for declaring a blanket state of emergency. But since infections have now reached record numbers, here comes the crackdown—and once again foreigners are being disproportionately targeted.
Granted, the government is now threatening to mete out jail time and fines for Japanese who don’t cooperate with measures to reduce Covid’s spread. This has occasioned the perfunctory hand-wringing about the effectiveness of punishment in curbing infections and “infringing too much on personal freedoms” for Japanese. I see that as part of the healthy give-and-take of political debate, to make sure things don’t go too far. But where is the parallel debate about the “freedoms” of non-Japanese residents who are receiving unequal treatment under the law?
A Japanese getting a fine or a spell in the clink is one thing, but it’s incomparable to a foreigner losing their legal status gleaned after years or decades of residency, followed by deportation and permanent separation from their lives, livelihoods, and families in Japan. We know that one of the reasons Covid became a pandemic is because of asymptomatic transmission. So what if a person who doesn’t know they’re sick and hasn’t left the country gets linked to a cluster by contact tracing? If that somebody happens to be a foreigner, his or her life in Japan may well be over…
https://www.debito.org/?p=16382
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That’s all for this month. Thanks for reading!
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21 comments on “DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 15, 2021”
This is an interesting story.
https://japantoday.com/category/national/ex-director-sues-amnesty-japan-for-firing-him-over-japanese-ability
Forget that Amnesty International is an NJ organization imported in Japan, but note that it was the Japan based operation, staffed by Japanese, who recruited an American with a Japanese name through the kind of bait and switch job offers we’ve all seen before, and then bullied him into quitting because he wasn’t ‘Japanese’ enough.
Even Amnesty International has a racist bullying culture in Japan. Gee, what’s the common denominator?
Japanese culture.
Any organization is not immune to its internal problems. I have heard several news about organizational bullying tactics that culminated into resignation or firing employees, citing whatever reasons they use for their convenience. They are something like language policing (NYT firing Don McNeil), publishing a provocative opinion(James Bennett stepped down from NYT editor), criticizing a foreign government (Guardian firing Current Affair Editor-in-Chief Nathan Robinson, CNN firing Marc Lamont Hill, Texas Public School firing a Muslim teacher), refusing to delete criticism of presidential candidate from the article draft (Glenn Greenwald resigned from the Intercept after his clash with NY editors over his article). It’s all about culture conflated with management and ideology. That’s the exactly what happened to those people for resisting organizational abuse of power and culture by semi-autocratic management.
Regarding the Amnesty Japan, I am not really surprised to see the fallout. It’s an overseas branch, and functions completely different from its’ headquarter(London, UK). No matter what their issue is, it was a former director who decided to hire an American guy(with a Japanese name) despite language constraints. And it’s her damn job to provide adequate support and resources to make sure that dude would not get depressed with undue stress accumulated from amount of work and culturally challenging work environment. They should have appointed NJ representatives and split up the Japanese/NJ ratio on the board. It just reduces them to a dime-a-dozen pseudo left/liberal cartel that only thrives in the Jalapagos island. And that’s quite disappointing.
Well he is going to sue Amnesty Japan. I wish him good luck but hope that he isn’t suing them through the Japanese court system. I hope he isn’t that naive. If its a small issue you can win as a foreigner but if its a big issue and newsworthy you can’t win.
BBC News has interesting article on the sudden rise of female suicides last year in Japan;
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55837160
Correctly points out that women are more likely to have been economically and socially impacted by the pandemic due to lack of secure employment and entrenched gender roles.
Fails to mention that Japan ranks very poorly for gender equality, which would have been helpful given the final quote of the article where Japanese researcher says that if this is the situation in super-covid-safe Japan, then just lord knows how much worse it must be in western countries! FAIL.
Whilst I’m sure women as well as men and children are suffering in many countries affected by the pandemic, the researcher might like to know that the 100+ countries ranking above Japan for gender equality will have more women working on the same contracts as their male colleagues.
Here is an interesting tangent to the current misogyny problem in Japanese politics.
Apparently J. Mark Ramseyer, professor at Harvard Law School, has joint the right-wing wajin nutjobs who’re denying any problems with the so-called “comfort women”. His paper “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War”, International Review of Law and Economics 65 portrays all “comfort women” as regularly licensed prostitutes who merely worked on voluntary contracts. He also talks this trash in an article published by Japan Forward.
There are two statements/open letters by other scholars demanding that Ramseyer’s piece gets retracted immediately because of severe academic misconduct. A short one by Harvard’s historians Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert. Another very long one by historian Amy Stanley et alia, pointing out much of the academic flaws Ramseyer used to “support” his claims, and completely busting them in the process.
My wife’s grandparents were abducted from Jeju Island (Korea) by the Japanese during WW2. I have never asked what work her Grandmother had to do, and I never will ask. I am pretty sure they didn’t sign any contracts though.
I sincerely hope this Ramseyer guy has Darwined himself out of academia for good.
Thank you for posting this. I have been following since J. Mark Ramseyer is a well-known Japan apologist, who slammed Ivan P. Hall’s “Cartels of Mind” for trashy gossip(and Journal of Japanese Studies folks defended that). I haven’t read his entire article yet, though I read the abstract. It’s kind of like reading Alan Deshorwitz’s piece of crap (https://www.amazon.com/Torture-Collection-Sanford-Levinson/dp/0195306465/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Torture%3A+A+Collection&qid=1613972919&sr=8-1; see his name on the top). My impression is that Ramseyer’s article is 1)facetiously absurd, 2) fatally flawed, and 3) grossly offensive at the same time. You don’t need to be an expert in Japan/South Korea Pacific War to poke holes. He uses game theory to put ’emic’ texts into ‘etic’ measurement for his gross academic-partisan fornication(Yuck!).
It’s a sham, junk science like Raj Chetty’s (another Harvard Professor) bogus VAM study to evaluate student’s future economic outcome linking with effectiveness of public school teachers based on standardized test scores of students they don’t teach. His study was debunked by many education researchers (https://dianeravitch.net/?s=Raj+Chetty%27s), yet it’s still available in the academic journal archives. And his name emerged once again. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/raj-chettys-american-dream/592804/
I know Harvard takes a huge role in neoliberal academic-economic social order, and Ramseyer is one of the three I know of who fit in to that club. To many people, he may look like one of the few bad apples, but he’s definitely not the last one in the game.
Anyone in Japan willing to report this seller on Yahoo Auctions?
https://famicomblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-minor-quibble-with-festering-cesspool.html
6 years later he is the same as he was then.
Interesting article by usually reliably in our corner on the issue, Ms. Osumi, starts by describing Suga government’s poor pandemic communication strategy towards NJ residents, ends up quoting Japanese ‘experts’ who essentially blame the victims, NJ, for not speaking Japanese and requiring (naturally!) English language services (coz all NJ speak English).
Disappointed to see that Osumi is putting out an article along the lines of ‘J-gov has been a neglectful host to its NJ guests, causing confusion’ (sounds exactly like a dictated apologist excuse when I say it like that!), rather than her usual ‘J-gov pandemic policies discriminate against and scapegoat NJ’.
Perhaps Japan Times has felt pressure from above and are pressuring her to repeat party platitudes? (After all, there’s a long list of TV and print journalists who were ‘let go’ during the Abe regime for being critical of the government).
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/23/national/crisis-communication-foreign-community-coronavirus/
To be fair, “ministry officials” quoted in the article, including Omi are to indicate the their serious institutional problems with providing important information about Covid guidance. Her argument is consistent: Government’s inability to effectively set up its communications causes significant discrepancies in messages that deliberately excluded/ostracized NJ residents from the public community. I don’t think the JT has met intense government scrutiny (which is not surprising to me, though), since the article does not discuss the top-level mismanagement on the issue.
Cluster outbreak of Covid at the Shinagawa gaijin tank. NHK also brought it this morning, but this wasn’t online, yet, at the time of posting.
Just watched Utada Hikaru’s new video, which was shot out and around lockdown London (music videos ‘essential work’ now it seems), and looked at her Wikipedia page;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utada_Hikaru
Apparently she’s ‘Japanese-American’ now. Did the woman who complained on Twitter that ‘foreigners buying houses in Japan is a problem’, take US citizenship? Or is she doing the Naomi Osaka thing?
Jim, she was born in the U.S. and thus automatically obtained U.S. citizenship. The Japanese Wiki page includes a reference to a comment she made online about registering to vote in the U.S. presidential election while overseas, suggesting she has been allowed to maintain dual citizenship well past the legal limit.
It is also possible that she is in fact only Japanese in heritage but is being intentionally misrepresented as “Japanese,” along the lines of Mayuko Kawakita, i.e. the inverse of the “claim ’em if they’re famous” trend that minority Japanese experience. Here’s a page proudly proclaiming that Kawakita is “a Japanese of American nationality” (「アメリカ国籍を持つ日本人」). To be fair, a person with dual citizenship would technically fit that description, but I don’t see any sources actually stating that Kawakita does, in fact, have Japanese citizenship.
Human rights tangent: The Sapporo Regional Court judged that the GOJ’s refusal to allow same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Another detainee dies in detention. The detainee allegedly pleaded for days to be taken to a hospital, but immigration workers denied her requests of course.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210319/p2a/00m/0na/045000c
How long will this be allowed to continue? And why does such a country get to host the Olympics?
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Group urges Japanese immigration bureau to reveal truth behind Sri Lankan detainee’s death
March 19, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
NAGOYA — A group supporting foreign workers and refugees petitioned the immigration bureau in this central Japan city on March 18 to reveal the truth behind the death of a Sri Lankan woman in her 30s detained at the facility.
Members of the group Start, which supported the woman, gathered to submit their calls and to protest outside the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in the city’s Minato Ward. They chanted phrases including, “Why didn’t you save her?” and, “We want you to change.”
Their petition reads, “The incident was caused by neglecting medical care. Clarify who has responsibility for management, and release an apology and the truth, as soon as possible. To stop this from happening again, we ask you to change your policies from one of single-minded deportations to one that considers the circumstances of the individuals involved and offers them relief.”
Bureau officials reportedly said, “We are currently under investigation by the ministry (of justice), and therefore cannot respond.”
At the protest, around 10 supporters and others observed a minute’s silence. Yasunori Matsui, 66, an adviser to Start, said, “We had filed requests for her to be hospitalized and put on an IV drip, but the bureau just kept saying it was ‘fine.’ I’m forced to say they left her to die. We will continue to protest, and push the bureau to improve its response.” Supporters and others could be heard saying slogans in unison, including, “Totally unforgivable,” and, “Reveal the truth.”
In response to requests from her supporters, an altar for flower donations from people connected to the deceased woman was set up inside the facility on March 16. A Nigerian woman who came from Tokyo to the bureau said with tears rising: “Foreigners and Japanese people are just the same, so why wasn’t she helped?”
The deceased was out in detention at the bureau in August 2020 for not having residency status, but in January 2021 her health took a sudden turn, and she began vomiting repeatedly. The support group asked the bureau to admit her to hospital, among other measures, but officials did not accept their requests.
The woman was found in her cell without a pulse on March 6, and confirmed dead at the hospital she was dispatched to by ambulance. The Ministry of Justice is proceeding with an investigation, which includes listening to accounts from the support group.
(Japanese original by Shinichiro Kawase, Nagoya News Center)
入管収容女性死亡「見殺しにされた」 支援団体、真相公表を要請
毎日新聞 2021/3/18
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210318/k00/00m/040/182000c
名古屋出入国在留管理局（名古屋市港区）に収容されていた30代のスリランカ人女性が施設内で死亡した問題で、女性を支援していた団体「START」（外国人労働者・難民と共に歩む会）が18日、同管理局に真相公表を申し入れた。メンバーらは周辺で抗議集会を開き、「なぜ助けなかったのか」「（管理局は）変わってほしい」などと訴えた。
申し入れ書では「事件は医療放置により引き起こされた。管理責任を明確にさせ、謝罪の意を表明し、一日も早く真相を公表して。二度と起こさないためにも、送還一本やりの方針から当事者の事情を配慮し救済する方針にしてほしい」としている。同管理局側からは「私たちも本省（法務省）の調査を受けている立場なので答えられることはない」と回答があったという。
集会では、支援者ら約10人が1分間黙とう。同団体顧問の松井保憲さん（66）は「入院や点滴を申し入れたが入管からは『大丈夫』と繰り返された。見殺しにされたと言わざるを得ない。引き続き抗議し、改善策を働きかける」と話した。支援者らは「絶対に許さないぞ」「真相を公表しろ」などと、同管理局に向かってシュプレヒコールを上げた。
支援者の要請を受け、同管理局は施設内に、死亡した女性の関係者向けの献花台を16日に設置。東京から駆けつけたナイジェリア人女性は「外国人も日本人も同じはずなのになぜ助けられなかったのか」と話し、涙を浮かべていた。
この問題では、在留資格の無かった女性が2020年8月に同管理局に収容されたが、21年1月に体調が急変し、嘔吐（おうと）を繰り返すようになった。同団体は管理局側に入院措置などを求めていたが受け入れられることなく、女性は3月6日、居室内で脈がない状態で見つかり、緊急搬送先の病院で死亡が確認された。この問題について、法務省は支援団体に話を聞くなど調査を進めている。【川瀬慎一朗】
ENDS
The next time a police officer asks me a question I’ve decided what I will say:
“I am currently under investigation by the police so I cannot reply.”
Just a question…
The news doesn’t seem to want to report that the children-shooting Myanmar army officer Corp is trained in Japan, or that the ship blocking the Suez Canal is Japanese owned (if anyone has seen news to the contrary, please post).
I can’t decide if this is intentionally not covered due to Japan’s magnitude of 10 increase in overseas positive coverage buying budget under Abe, or ignored so as not to cast shade on the Olympics?
Ever Green:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/24/suez-canal-ever-given-stuck/
Anecdata: I (too?) saw it first described as ‘a Taiwanese vessel’ inside my country’s media (without going into the specifics of who owns and who operates it), while The Guardian had an article incorrectly saying it’s Taiwanese owned ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/25/suez-canal-blocked-ship-ever-given-stuck )
Military training: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-japan-idUSKBN2A20PX
Thanks for posting!
Now I’m waiting for the news to report that whilst western brands are being targeted for criticism of China’s human rights re: Uighurs, Muji is using Xinjiang cotton.
I don’t see any of this (but I don’t watch/read news all day).
Never mind international media, I’m wondering how much the Japanese are kept in the dark about what’s going on around the world.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b4cec7d992359bc136e7a317bf03760b5c5fdce2
Naomi Osaka should stick to playing tennis or educate herself before she speaks.
In criticizing anti-Asian/black racism in the US, she said;
“Imagine profiting/enjoying things that come from a culture and then attacking/diminishing the ethnic group that created it.”
Although she could equally have said the same about Japan. I’m sure her mother could tell her about the discrimination her father faced in Japan. But Osaka didn’t say that about Japan because she is ignorant of the issue.
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/tennis-osaka-raises-voice-against-anti-asian-hate-crimes#
This woman really is becoming THE poster child for Japanese ‘whattaboutism’.