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Racism in Tokyo

Posted By tok_jimmy On February 26, 2007 @ 3:36 pm In Racism | Comments Disabled

Matt Romaine ^[1] opens the proverbial can of worms that is Racism in Japan.
He recounted two episodes of apparent racism and after being Dugg ^[2], the invevitable deluge came.
I’ve experienced minor things that could possibly be due to racism, but overall I get more positive than negative discrimination here. You’re bound to come across some nutters in any big city like Tokyo, but the issue here was whether it is a part of some kind of trend.
The recent campaign by JapanProbe ^[3] against the racist magazine on sale in convenience stores comes to mind.
Gen ^[4] and Shin ^[5] and Japanologist ^[6] have blogged on the issue.
There was also a big discussion ^[7] here on the Tokyo Metroblog a while back.

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[1] Matt Romaine: http://www.mattromaine.com/2007/02/22/creepy-crawlies-comin-out-o-the-woods/

[2] Dugg: http://www.digg.com/world_news/An_American_s_Sudden_Brush_With_Japanese_Racism

[3] JapanProbe: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1072

[4] Gen: http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/02/23/18h48m14s#comments

[5] Shin: http://fukumimi.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/the-digg-effect-and-some-additional-thoughts-on-japan-and-racism/

[6] Japanologist: http://japanologist.blogspot.com/2006/08/racism-in-japan.html

[7] discussion: http://tokyo.metblogs.com/archives/2005/01/racism_in_japan.phtml

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