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From Taiji to Okinawa, readers dissect some issues of 2012
Okinawa :: Japan | 4 months ago
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Taiji hunts continue to anger, confound readers," ( Have Your Say, Oct. 30 ): Sadly, this season once again, Sea Shepherd activists are intruding on the activities of those involved in the whaling and dolphin-hunting industry in the town of Taiji, in
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Is Shintaro Ishihara the most dangerous man in Japan? Readers discuss
Hashimoto :: Japan | 5 months ago
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Readers discuss Parallels with wartime general Re: " The world according to Toru Hashimoto " by Eric Johnston (Light Gist, Oct. 30): Only one kana syllable (or one letter in romaji ) separates (Nippon Ishin no Kai leader Shintaro) Ishihara from (
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Less naming and shaming, better translations and more pragmatism, please
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
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Readers of those articles will know that this claim is nonsense, and that I frequently criticise some Japanese policies, including immigration policies, as closed-minded. Meanwhile, Mr. Arudou, for his own reasons, never misses an opportunity not
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Strong winds linger from the microaggressions tempest
Okinawa :: Japan | 11 months ago
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But has Debito ever listened to any Japanese-Japanese conversations? One would be hard-pressed to find an interaction between casual acquaintances that doesn't begin with something about the weather. Is this reliance on the same ice-breaker when
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'It's just because ... foreigners know best': readers' views
Tōkyō :: Japan | 12 months ago
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I think Spiri is right that the comments posted on Debito.org , insofar as they claimed that Japanese attitudes are genetic, are racist. However, his argument that foreigners who criticize Japan are behaving like missionaries is just silly. It's a
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The elephant in the foreigner's room now has a name: microaggression
Sue :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Usually I just check out Debito's blog once every couple of months, because he's too strident to read more often. (Maybe that is the result of 20-plus years of microaggressions!) But he hit the nail on the head with this column. These so-called
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The elephant in the foreigner's room now has a name: microaggression
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 year ago
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A weight off my shoulders I just wanted to thank you for writing this article. It is the first time anybody has been able to articulate this phenomenon that has frustrated me for 20 years...I was home-schooled in Japanese by my mom, attended summer
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Debito takes on Donald: readers' responses
Fukushima :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Why would he denigrate those foreign residents in Japan who strive to do the same? Keene's insinuation that the "foreign devil" is a source of increasing criminality in Japan is akin to racial profiling in places like New York city or Sanford,
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Revolving-door immigration policy hard-wired to fail: readers' responses
Sendai :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Furthermore, an interview with a care home manager revealed that it cost him about ¥8 million extra to support his two foreign staff over three years while only getting about ¥800,000 from the government for taking them in; it looks like he missed
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A few of readers' favorite things; heated discussion on the burning issue of warmth
Ōsaka :: Japan | 1 year ago
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I can only imagine he is also thrilled that there is no enforcement of handicap parking violations. Perhaps if there were fewer self-entitled "foreigners" taking what they want when they want it, Mr. Arudou would not have or need as many straw men to
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