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BY ARUDOU DEBITO
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Activism in Japan: attitudes towards 327-330. SEE ALSO Forums, United Nations University.

Ainu (Hokkaido indigenous people), Kayano Shiro's negotation with onsen Osupa 179-181.

Akebono (naturalized sumo wrestler) 190.

Aiuchi, Toshikazu Dr (Otaru University of Commerce): 132, 328-329.

Aldwinckle, Dave SEE Arudou, Debito.

Ana Bortz Case: SEE Bortz, Ana.

Anti-Discrimination Law in Japan, lack of: 64-65, 234-235, 295, 325. SEE ALSO Diet.

Arudou, Debito (aka Aldwinckle, Dave): 10-11, 22-24, 26, 34, 48, 68-69, 70-71, 73-74, 91, 93, 139, 159-160, 179-184, 193-194, 214-216, 218, 242-243, 248-254, 255-258, 277-284, 290-292, 295, 297, 330-333, 335-337, 341-342, 364-366, 386-389. SEE ALSO Negotiations and Reports for more detailed groupings of events, and Karthaus, Olaf, and Sutherland, Ken.

Asahi Bank: 186-188 SEE ALSO Herman Case.

Bathhouses: SEE Onsen, Sento.

Bathing manners in Japan: 1-6, 83-84, 163-164, 286-290. SEE ALSO Onsen, Sento.

BENCI (Businesses Excluding Non-Japanese Customers Issho) Project (internet working group): 51-60, 85-86, 100, 106-108, 143, 171-172, 239-241, 251-254. SEE ALSO ISSHO Kikaku, Laszlo, Tony, Internet Activism.

"Bengodan" (legal team): Formation of 372-377. How not to 330-333. SEE ALSO Itoh Hideko, Lawsuits.

Bortz, Ana (plaintiff in Ana Bortz Case, Brazilian activist): 61, 66-68, 170, 188, 189,213-214, 217, 238, 284, 397. Court text on Seibido Jewelry Store lawsuit ruling by Shizuoka District Court 61-65, 67. SEE ALSO ISSHO Kikaku.

Brazilians in Japan: 12, 396-397. SEE ALSO Bortz, Ana.

Burakumin (Japan's historical underclass) 75.

Canada: SEE Governments.

CCPR: SEE Convention on Civil and Political Rights.

CERD: SEE Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Chan, Alexei (Rumoi interlocutor): 220.

Chinese: 198, 199.

Chinjou (petition for local ordinance): viii, 74-75, 129-133, 210, 236, 248-249, 311. SEE ALSO Jourei, Seigan.

Clark, Gregory (Japan Times columnist): 93-96, 189-194, 198-200, 216-217.

Communist Party, Japan (JCP): SEE Political Parties.

Constitution of Japan: 61, 89, 91, 314.

Consulates SEE Governments

Convention on Convention on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR, United Nations Treaty effected by Japan in 1979): CCPR Committee's criticisms of political rights in Japan: 358-359, 388. SEE ALSO CERD, Prime Minister's Cabinet, United Nations.

Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD, United Nations Treaty effected by Japan in 1996): iii, 64-65, 67, 170, 193, 284, 325, 326, 361-362, 379. Relevant Citations 306-309. CERD Committee's criticisms of human rights in Japan: 379-383, 385. SEE ALSO CCPR, Prime Minister's Cabinet, United Nations.

Court cases. SEE Lawsuits.

Critics: 285, 286, 297-302, 303-306. Dealing with: 299, 311-315, 368-370. SEE ALSO Internet Activism, Peanut Gallery.

"Cultural blind spots": as paradigm for analyzing racism in Japan 393-400.

"Cultural imperialism" argument: ii

Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ): SEE Political Parties.

Diet (Parliament) in Japan, lobbying for anti-discrimination law: 213-214, 236-237. SEE ALSO Anti-Discrimination Law, Political Parties.

Discrimination: 72, 140, 160, 164, 186-188, at onsen other than Yunohana, Osupa, and Yuransen: 221-222, at restaurants 222-223, at stores 222, 225-227, at a barbershop 227-228, at high schools 228-229, in police notices and enforcement 317, in advertising for Miwa Locks 200-202. Lack of at Wakkanai Grand Hotel 235-236. SEE ALSO Foreign Crime, Osupa, Otaru, Panorama, Prime Minister's Cabinet, Racism, "Rational Discrimination", Yunohana, Yuransen.

Dunedin, New Zealand (Otaru's Sister City): 133-136, 241. Mayor Sukhi Turner on Otaru exclusions: 134, 137, 241.

Embassies SEE Governments

Exclusionary establishments: SEE Discrimination.

Freizeit (nonexclusionary Otaru bathhouse): 36-38 SEE ALSO Osupa, Otaru, Panorama, Yunohana, Yuransen.

Foreign Crime: 196-209, 249, 317. Statistics 204. How crime reports distort statistics: 203-208. SEE ALSO Ishihara Shintaro, National Police Agency.

Forums: Otaru University of Commerce: 108, 126, 141-142, 144-154, 165-166. Osupa Forum: 335-337. SEE ALSO Activism, Internet Activism.

Fox, Michael H.: 151, 254-255, 278-279.

Gaijin (epithet used for "foreigners"): SEE Gaikokujin

"Gaijin Card" (identification for resident foreigners in Japan): vi-vii, 265-267.

Gaikokujin (foreigners): vi, 11-13, 103. Status of in Japan 11-13, 187, 387. SEE ALSO Brazilians, Chinese, Russians, Zainichi Gaikokujin.

Germany: SEE Governments

"Global Standards": 93-96.

"Guests vs. Hosts" argument: ii-iii, 13.

Governments negotiated with:
German Embassy, statement 173-174.
Canadian Ambassador Leonard Edwards 177, statement 185.
United States, Sapporo Consulate 178, State Dept. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Japan 197-198 (2000), 317 (2001).
Russian Consulate Sapporo: 178-179, 209, 219-220. SEE ALSO Russians.

Green Sauna (Yunohana's downtown bathhouse allegedly bankrupted by Russian sailors): 115, 159-160, 295-297. SEE ALSO Yunohana.

"Groupism": 105-106.

Hadfield, Peter (reporter): 186-188.

Hall, Ivan: Footnote 280, Back cover.

Hamamatsu (City, Shizuoka Pref.) 60-61, 189-193, Hamamatsu Sengen on rights of foreign residents 334-335. SEE ALSO Bortz, Ana, Map.

Hatayama, Yukio (DPJ politician and party head): 325. SEE ALSO Political Parties.

Herman, Steven (reporter, lawsuiter against Asahi Bank) 186-189.

Higashizawa, Yasushi (human rights lawyer): 187, 238, 372-373. SEE ALSO Bengodan.

Hokkaido Prefectural Government: Burial of lobbied law in committee 236, 237. SEE ALSO Political Parties.

Human Rights: SEE CERD, CCPR, Discrimination, Racism, Prime Minister's Cabinet.

ICERD: SEE Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Internet activism: Lessons learned from this experience: 13-14, 111-112, 129, 213, 277-284. SEE ALSO Critics, Press Conferences.

Ishihara, Shintaro (Tokyo Governor): "Sankokujin" speech 196-198, reverberations on the status of foreigners in Japan 199, 200, 238. SEE ALSO Foreign Crime, National Police Agency.

ISSHO Kikaku (internet group): iii-iv, 14, 49, 51, 73, 105, 106-108, 143, 209, 213-214, 237, 238, 248, 251-254, 302-303. SEE ALSO Laszlo, Tony, BENCI Project.

Itoh, Hideko (controversial lawyer): 281-282, 284, 290-291, 330-333, court cross-examination 338-352, 363, refused rehiring 377. SEE ALSO Bengodan, Lawsuits.

Jinken Yougobu (Bureau of Human Rights) SEE Ministry of Justice.

Johnson, Chalmers: 174-175.

Jourei (local ordinance): viii, 74-75, 129-133, 210, 236, 248-249, 311. SEE ALSO Chinjou, Seigan.

Judicial activism, lack of: 278-281, 358-360. SEE ALSO Fox, Michael H, Lawsuits.

Karthaus, Olaf: 16-18, 24-25, 44-45, 30-33, 60, 106-108, 125, 234, 239, 242-243, 246-248, 253-254, 282-284, 290, 298, 363, 367-368, 386-389. Karthaus, Daniel: 242-243, 246-248, 283. Karthaus, Yuki: 58-59.

Kawasaki (city): foreign rights legislation 294.

Kayano, Shiro (Ainu activist): SEE Ainu.

King, Martin Luthor 299.

Kobayashi, Katsuyuki/Masayuki (Otaru onsen Yunohana manager): 98-99, 114-117, 126, 140-141, 215-216. Testimony of 338-342. SEE ALSO Yunohana.

"Kokusaika taisaku iinkai" (NPA Policymaking Committee against Internationalization): SEE National Police Agency.

"Koko Ga Hen Da Yo Nihonjin" (TV show): 301-302. SEE ALSO Critics.

Kouan Iinkai (National Public Safety Commission): 261-265. Compared with prewar Kenpeitai (Thought Police) 262-263.

Koumeitou (Clean Govt. Party): SEE Political Parties.

Komatsuki, Akio (Dean, UN University): SEE United Nations University.

Konishiki (naturalized sumo wrestler) 190.

Koreans: 196-197, 199, 334.

Laszlo, Tony (Director, ISSHO Kikaku) 49-51, 52-53, 73-75, 85-86, 100, 101-102, 105, 143, 171-172, 188, 197, 237, 238-240, 248-249, 251-254. Statement against Otaru Onsen Lawsuit 302-303. SEE ALSO BENCI Project, ISSHO Kikaku.

Lawsuits in Japan: Statistics 280 footnote. How to and why people are deterred from 277-281. Cautionary examples Ienaga Saburo, Gallagher Gwen, Minamata 277-278. Damages tabulation 297-298. SEE ALSO Bengodan, Fox, Michael H, Judicial activism.

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP): SEE Political Parties.

Lie, John Dr (Author, "Multiethnic Japan"): ii, 396.

Lobbying: See Political Parties.

Map: xi.

Mass Media: Overview of Japan's viii-ix, 13-14.

Newspapers (shinbun) appearing in this book:

• Asahi: 58, 80-81, 90-91, 212-217, 251, 293, 335. Mistranslation of New York Times article by, 90-92.
• Chuunichi (regional): 238.
• Hokkaido Shinbun ("Doshin"): 20, 45-49, 78, 96-99, 127, 176, 183, 195, 209-210, 245-246, 238-239, 240, 284, 285, 294-5 (editorial), 328, 333, 366, 384-386 (editorial), Otaru debates sponsored by 182-183.
• Japan Times: 93-95, 154, 189-193, 198-200, 315 (cartoon), 316-317, 335-337.
• Kyodo: 154, 176, 196.
• Mainichi: 58, 249.
• Sankei: 202-203, 208. SEE ALSO Foreign Crime.
• Yomiuri: 82, 154, 176, 217
• Shuukanshi (tabloid weeklies): Overview ix, Shuukan Asahi 92-93, Shuukan Shinchou 195-196.

  Broadcast media:

• NHK: 132-133, 154. Transcripts (Jan 13 2000) 139-142, (Feb 5 2000) 157-168, (Feb 9 2000) 168-170.
• UHB TV Oct 27, 1999 transcript 69-72. HBC, STV, UHB, NHK, TV Asahi 311, 325.

  Overseas media:

• New York Times 66-69, 88-89, 142, 157, 159. Asahi mistranslation of 90-92.
• BBC 311, Economist London 315-316, Frankfurter 176-177, Fodors Japan 318, LA Times 177, Let's Go Japan 386, Otago Daily Times (NZ) 136, Pravda 154, Reuters 196, The Times London 177, Taipei Times 189-194, USA Today 186-189.

"Meiwaku" (inconvenience to others): 190, 290-291, 394.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimushou): Comment on New York Times article 88-89.

Ministry of Home Affairs (Soumushou): 335.

Ministry of Justice (Houmushou) : 18,187, Bureau of Human Rights Asahikawa intervention in Monbetsu exclusions 249-251. Naturalization procedures 256-261. BOHR advice to Otaru City that legislative negligence carries no penalty 346-347. SEE ALSO Naturalization.

Miwa Locks: SEE Discrimination.

Monbetsu (Okhotsk Sea city): 220, 248-251, 311. SEE ALSO Ministry of Justice, Discrimination, Map.

Mylet, James. SEE Welcome House.

Nakhodka (Otaru's Russian Sister City): 57-8, 79. SEE ALSO Map.

National Police Agency (NPA): 202-208, 244, 264-265. Policymaking Committee against Internationalization (kokusaika taisaku iinkai) and its budgeting of fear campaigns against foreign crime 206-207. DNA tests for racial profiling of foreign crime 396 footnote. SEE ALSO Foreign Crime.

Naturalization: 72. Procedure 256-271. Reason why 267-271.

Negotiations (by Arudou Debito et al): First onsens trip 27-45, Otaru City Govt. 76-85, Otaru City Assembly76-88, second onsens trip 113-126, at Otaru Univ. of Commerce Forum 144-151, third onsen trip 179-184, trip to national Diet etc 213-217, trip to Rumoi and Wakkanai 220-235, final refusal at Yunohana 271-276, Sapporo District Court Wakai Negotiations 352-356. SEE ALSO Reports, Wakai.

Newspaper: See Mass Media, Overseas Media subheading.

New York Times: See Mass Media, Overseas Media subheading.

Nishimura, Daisuke (Hokkaido Shinbun reporter): 21-22, 25-26, 35, 43, 96-99, 101-106, 128, 245-246.

NPA: SEE National Police Agency.

"Nyuu Yoku Times" (Aldwinckle internet reports) SEE Reports.

Ogata, Sadako (UNHCR official) 68.

Ohkoshi (manager of Otaru onsen Osupa): 117-125, 141, 145, 159-160, 165-166, 179-184. SEE ALSO Osupa, Osupa Survey.

Onsen (hot spring): vii, 1-6 SEE ALSO Bathing manners in Japan, Freizeit, Osupa, Panorama, Yunohana, Yuransen..

Osupa (Otaru exclusionary onsen): 38-39, 107, 117-125, 158, 180, 212, 215-216. Osupa public forum 335-337. SEE ALSO Discrimination, Ohkoshi, Osupa Survey, Otaru, Freizeit, Panorama, Racism, Yunohana, Yuransen.

Osupa Survey: Details and flaws of 118-124, Citations in media 127, 141, 147-151, 159, 161, 166.

Otaru, City Government of (Defendant): 14-16, 57, 99, 105, 117, 159, 209-212, 318, 326. Exclusion of foreigners from policy meetings 76-85. Negotiations with City Assembly 86-88, 129-133, 215, 276. Killing of anti-discrimination chinjou in committee 210-211. Measures taken by City 83, 291-294. Measures not taken 245-246, 309-310. Discriminatory website 244. Testimony of 342-351. SEE ALSO Discrimination, Dunedin, Freizeit, Panorama, Racism, Takeuchi Kazuho (Int'l Desk Chief), Yamada Katsumaro (Mayor), Yunohana.

"Peanut Gallery" (internet trolls hiding behind monikers making irresponsible comments): Definition 285. 286, 297-302. SEE ALSO Critics.

Parliament: SEE Diet.

Panorama (Otaru exclusionary onsen): 40-43, 81, 125-6, 158. SEE ALSO Freizeit, Onsen, Otaru, Yunohana.

Permanent Residency (eijuuken, visa status): vi.

Political Parties: Lobbying for anti-discrimination laws. Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ, Minshutou) 86-88, 214, 325, 333-334. Liberal Democratic Party (LDP, Jimintou) 238-240. Japan Communist Party (JCP, Kyousantou) 210, 240. General Election of 2000 and their standpoints on anti-discrimination law 238-241. SEE ALSO Diet, Anti-Discrimination Law.

Press conferences, how to: 130-133, 137-138, 151-154. SEE ALSO Internet activism.

Prime Minister's Cabinet surveys: Less public support for human rights for foreigners 387-388, need more foreign labor and immigration 389.

Racism: 34, 64, 116, 168, 189-193, 244, 291. Racist comments by Otaru citizens on TV 161-163. Racial Discrimination 271-276, 286-290, 391-393. SEE ALSO Clark, Gregory, "Cultural blind spots", Prime Minister's Cabinet.

"Rational Discrimination" (gouriteki sabetsu): Use of judicial construct in court decisions 358-360.

Refugees, numbers taken by Japan: 68.

Reports (Nyuu Yoku Times etc.) on on-site events: First onsens trip 27-45, Otaru City Assembly 76-88, second onsens trip 112-137, Otaru Univ. of Commerce Forum 144-154, third onsen trip 175-184, trip to Rumoi and Wakkanai 219-237, naturalizing 256-271, final refusal at Yunohana 271-276, why we sue 306-315, going to Sapporo District Court 318-326, Sapporo District Court Wakai Negotiations 352-356, District Court Decision critique 357-362, filing papers in Sapporo High Court 364-370, forming bengodan legal team for appeal 373-377, High Court Decision critique 378-384. SEE ALSO Negotiations, Wakai.

Richie, Donald: Back cover.

Russians in Japan: 17, 32-33, 54, 70, 79, 97-99, 139-140, 142, 161-162, 164, 193, 198, 199, 214-215, 220-227, 303. Statistics of Russian boats 178-179. Japanese attitudes towards 102-104, 232-234. SEE ALSO Clark, Gregory, Governments, Sakhalin.

Rumoi (city): 220-224. SEE ALSO Map.

Sakhalin: 104, 220. SEE ALSO Russians, Map.

"Sankokujin": See Ishihara Shintaro.

Sapporo District Court: 280, 318-326, Wakai 352-356, Decision 357-362, 401-404. See ALSO Sapporo High Court, Judicial activism, Lawsuits, "Rational Discrimination", Wakai.

Sapporo High Court: 280, 318-326, 364-366, 370-371, Decision 378-383, 405-407. See ALSO Sapporo District Court, Judicial activism, Lawsuits.

Sato, Makoto (Otaru City Charge D'Affaires): 182-183. Damage control re Dunedin Sister-City relationship 134-136. SEE ALSO Dunedin.

Schreiber, Mark: 200-202, Back cover.

Seigan (assemblymember-sponsored petition for local ordinance): vii, 74-75. SEE ALSO Chinjou, Jourei.

Sento (neighborhood bathhouse): vi, 1-6, 9-10 Taisho-yu (Otaru sento) exclusions 195-196. Nonexclusionary Tokyo sento Takenoyu 163-164. SEE ALSO Bathing manners in Japan, Onsen.

Shinbun (newspaper): viii-ix. SEE ALSO Mass Media, Newspapers subheading.

Shizuoka (city): SEE Bortz, Ana, Map

Sunakku ("snack" bars), ix-x, 97, Exclusions at 249. SEE ALSO Monbetsu.

Supreme Court of Japan 383-384. SEE ALSO Sapporo District Court, Sapporo High Court.

Sutherland, Ken (plaintiff): 282-284, 286-290, 291, 296, 298.

Takeuchi, Kazuho (Otaru City Int'l Desk Chief): 20-21, 54-55, 71, 141, 310, Testimony of 342-351. Statements about Russian values to LA Times 177. SEE ALSO Otaru.

Taisho-yu (Otaru exclusionary sento) SEE Sento

Television: SEE Mass Media, Broadcast media subheading.

Turner, Sukhi (Dunedin NZ Mayor), SEE Dunedin.

United Nations: 280, 385, 389. Criticisms of Japan's human rights record 379-383. SEE ALSO CERD, CCPR, United Nations Security Council.

United Nations Security Council: Japan's desire for a seat 311, 388.

United Nations University (Tokyo): cancellation of human rights forum 328-329.

United States: SEE Governments.

"Uniqueness" of Japan argument addressed: 393-394.

Wakai (pre-ruling court settlement), negotiations at Sapporo District Court for, 352-356.

Wakkanai (city): 219, 224-237, 248, 311. SEE ALSO Map.

Welcome House (NGO Catholic activist group), 81, 85-88, 126, 132, 139, 158, 165-166.

Whiting, Robert: Back Cover.

World Cup 2002: 208.

www.debito.org (website links within text): 13, 50, 130, 132, 136, 151, 152, 154, 175, 176, 200, 207, 208, 211, 227, 230, 232, 248, 257, 258, 259, 266, 268, 281, 282, 290, 291, 301, 306, 307, 323, 325, 327, 328, 330, 335, 338, 376-377, 358, 373, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 386, 387, 388, 389, 396, 401. Artery sites at 181 and 398.

Yamada, Katsumaro (Otaru Mayor): 58-59, 209-210, 293-294, 313-314, 362. SEE ALSO Otaru.

Yunohana (Otaru exclusionary onsen), Defendant: 14-16, 30-35, 107, 114-117, 126, 127-128, 159-160, 182, 215, 276, 283, 284, 285, 286-289, 310, 314, 321, 362. Protest petition of 326, Testimony of 338-342, Appeal 366. Settlement offer by owner Hashimoto 290-291. SEE ALSO Discrimination, Green Sauna, Kobayashi Katsuyuki (Manager), Osupa, Otaru, Panorama, Racism, Yuransen.

Yuransen (Wakkanai segregated public bath): Exclusion of Olaf Karthaus 16-18, negotiations with 229-235. SEE ALSO Discrimination, Osupa, Otaru, Panorama, Racism, Yunohana.

Zainichi Gaikokujin (generational foreigners in Japan): vii, 180.

Zekria, Natalia (wife of Nishimura Daisuke): 101-105.