An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem. Posted on 07/11/2005 1:54:34 PM PDT by M. Espinola
An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem.
Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, was speaking at the end of a nine-day tour of the country.
He said Japan should introduce new legislation to combat discrimination.
Mr Diene travelled to several Japanese cities during his visit, meeting minority groups and touring slums.
He said that although the government helped to organise his visit, he felt many officials failed to recognise the seriousness of the racism and discrimination minorities suffered.
He was also concerned that politicians used racist or nationalist themes, as he put it, to whip up popular emotions. He singled out the treatment of ethnic Koreans and Chinese and indigenous tribes.
Mr Diene says he plans to recommend that Japan enact a law against discrimination, which he said should be drawn up in consultation with minority groups.
He said he would now wait for the Japanese government to respond to his comments before submitting a report to the United Nations.
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This is indeed true.
In Japan the dirty jobs are reserved for Koreans and Japanese of Brazilian descent.
I have never understood why racism is considered a greater evil than, say, belching in public.
Interesting contrast with the rest of the G8.
I'm sure U.N.-mandated victicrat quotas will quickly overcome centuries of Japanese racial-superiority belief.
Back to reality ... the graph on numbers of "registered foreigners" is interesting. It wouldn't surprise me if many of those, especially the ones from South America, are ethnic Japanese born abroad.
I've never heard of a genocidal war built on a shared ideology of hatred of public eructation.
So what is wrong with protecting one's way of life
Usually, accusations of racism are just tools of exploitation by hippylibs to get what they want.
These aren't just "Koreans" most of these people arrived in Japan over 600 years ago but still are not considered to be Japanese.
I hope the Japanese government has the good sense to ignore this idiot's report. And they probably told him very politely that that is exactly what they will do.
The Japanese look down on the Chinese, and the Europeans look down on the Americans. Each has his own vice. I'm not sure why the BBC sees a need to point out the vices of the Japanese, though.
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I have ambivalence about a generalized claim of racism on the part of the Japanese. Yes, the Japanese look down on several groups, but the vast majority of their "racism" is directed toward other Asian groups, while they generally hold Caucasians in high esteem.
Japan, last time I looked, was a sovereign nation. Every bit entitled to run its own affairs as Cuba or Venezuela... or North Korea.
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Good. Maybe that'll keep out the Muslims.
Belching in public has never resulted in a man being drug behind a pickup truck for miles and miles.
I wonder if "registered foreigners" includes U.S. military members. My buddy is stationed at Yokota Air Base and loves it there.
The Japanese are widely racist, my friend who spent 5 years there in the Navy can back me up on that. However I think the UN could look at European nations that are so called "progressive" nations as they are probably just as racist as anywhere in the world. They hide behind their cloak of tolerance like all good hypocrits.
I wonder if there is an Al-Queda cell in Japan.....
Maybe she's not just a racist. Maybe she's psychotic as well.
Don't fall into the racism isn't real trap. Racism is real, it exists and it's not pretty.
"Japanese of Brazilian descent."
Hugh?
can you elaborate?
thanks.
It's incredible after centuries old ways die hard.
For those which doubt the content of the report they should read about the horrible treatment of our serviceman & that of other Allied troops serving in the Pacific who were captured, plus the barbaric methods used by the Imperial forces of Japan on conquered Asian nations.
A Chinese-American scholar visiting Japan once told me a story.
She was parked on the curb and a truck was double parked, blocking her. She asked the truck driver to move. The truck driver immediately began punching her. She screamed for the police. When they did arrive, the truck driver explained that he had thought she was Korean.
I don't know. It would surely include American business people living in Japan, but maybe the military is an exception. My husband spent a month at some base in Japan, and found it interesting.
I haven't figured that one out either.
There has been a Japanese emigre population in Brazil since the last century. For instance, the Japanese soldier who surrendered back in the 70s (Lt. Onoda) emigrated to Brazil because no one in Japan understood him anymore. In recent years, as the Brazilian economy has failed to modernize, some have returned to Japan for work.
They are treated like gaijin and given only menial jobs.
like the un would know squat about anything...
It's a bit easier to secure your borders when you're an island.
... and thinks only the Japanese can do anything worthwile.Try asking her why it is so much of her culture is derived from Chinese roots. That should keep her busy doing mental gymnastics for a while.
They no longer have to post signs that say, "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed." It's pretty much implied now.
Well, the Japs deserve this. They invite a UN official from the third world and then fail to pay him the bribes he thinks he's earned and fail to treat him like an imperial potentate. Of course, the slimey crook is going to bad mouth them!
My husband worked with a young American-born Japanese man who believed that b.s. ... in a civil service job in the DoD, no less. My father thought the guy should be fired for being a traitor!
Wow, that's almost scary.
What Japan really needs, is less U.N., and more 
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She has a lot of nerve. I suppose it was American fliers in those Zeros bombing the USS Arizona & the rest of our Pacific fleet on that Sunday morning?
The rationale (at least the one we heard) is that when the U.S. stopped selling oil to the Japanese, they had "no choice" but to attack us, so it's all our fault.
And this is news because.....?
You should hear the Japanese that come with the electronics industry here in the U.S.
Some silly UN mandate is not going to change anything.
I wonder what country Doudou Diene, the UN Inspector, is from. After the United States, Japan pays the largest share of contributions to the UN - he's biting the hand that feeds him.
Mr. Diene is from Senegal.
It was worse than that, actually. She explained that, for the good of the region, the Pacific should be Japanese and that the US had no business in Hawaii, the Philipines, Guam etc. The attack on Pearl was just the Japanese repelling an intruder.
I told you, psychotic.
The whole Mexican stamps issue showed that Mexico doesn't have the sensitivity -- or perhaps hypersensitivity -- of the United States. Reasonable people might disagree on the stamps issue, but no one can deny that Mexico treats its indigenous peoples badly.
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Reporters always bad mouth the nations who give them free access and who dont penalize them for bad mouthing them..
Let this chump go to China and roam as freely and critisize them with the same gusto
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