Arudou Debito
Biographic Data
| ID | 250969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arudou Debito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arudou |
| FAMILY NAME | Debito |
| SIGNATURE | DEBITO A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Japanese Government Pressures American Publisher to Delete Textbook Treatment of Wartime Sexual Slavery
The debate on Japan's history of wartime sexual for political purposes.“ slavery (the ”Comfort Women“ issue) has heated up again, with the Japanese government extending its efforts to revise school textbooks to overseas publishers. Last November, McGraw-Hill, publisher of a world history textbook, “Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past” Volume Two, by history professors Herbert Ziegler and Jerry Bentley, was contacted by Jap…
Japan's Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu
M.G. Sheftall, Professor of Modern Japanese History at Shizuoka University and author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (Penguin 2005), was in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the battleship USS Missouri (site of the Japanese surrender in World War II) speaking at the dedication of a temporary exhibition of the Tokkō Kamikaze suicide pilots on April 10 and 11, 2015
Japan's Rightward Swing and the Tottori Prefecture Human Rights Ordinance
Japan's swing to the right in the December 2012 Lower House election placed three-quarters of the seats in the hands of conservative parties. The result should come as no surprise. This political movement not only capitalized on a putative external threat generated by recent international territorial disputes (with China/Taiwan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands and with South Korea over Takeshima/Dokdo islands). It also rode a xenophobic wave durin…
Japan's Entrenched Discrimination Toward Foreigners
Will Japan ever overcome its distrust of foreigners? This question has been forcefully posed in various guises, most notably perhaps by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights Doudou Diene. In 2005 he concluded after a nine-day investigation in Japan that the authorities were not doing enough to tackle what he called Japan's "deep and profound racism" and xenophobia, particularly against its former colonial subjects. The report appe…
Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan
A new bilingual book by lawyer Higuchi Akira and author-activist Arudou Debito went on sale in March 2008. The book includes advice on securing stable visas, establishing businesses and secure jobs, resolving legal problems, and planning for the future from entry into Japan to death.　In this extract, they explain the rationale behind the project and offer advice for how to deal with problems in Japan and integrate into Japanese society
Japan's Future as an International, Multicultural Society
Despite an express policy against importing unskilled foreign labor, the Government of Japan (GOJ) since 1990 has been following an unacknowledged backdoor "guest worker" program to alleviate a labor shortage that threatens to become chronic. Through its "Student", "Entertainer", "Nikkei repatriation", "Researcher", "Trainee", and "Intern" Visa programs, the GOJ has imported hundreds of thousands of cost-effective Non-Japanese (NJ) laborers to st…
Gaijin Hanzai Magazine and Hate Speech in Japan
A recent event making headlines worldwide was the publication of GAIJIN HANZAI URA FAIRU (The Underground Files of Gaijin Crime). This magazine, which went on sale at major Japanese bookstores and convenience stores nationwide, depicts foreigners as "dangerous" and "evil". Despite Japan's lack of a legal framework, or a civil society capable of curbing hate speech, activists managed to have the magazine removed from stores and put out of circulat…
The Coming Internationalization
With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article ("Minority Reports") on their causes. It posed an important question: Why are some countries able to assimilate immigrants and their children more peacefully than others? It took a stab at comparing "integrationist" vs. "assimilationist" public policies in France, England, Germany, Holland, and the United States
Japanese Only
In 1993, an onsen (hotspring) in the city of Otaru, Hokkaido, decided it had had enough of Russian sailors not following bathhouse rules. The managers put up signs saying "JAPANESE ONLY," and refused entry to all foreigners.Excluded people complained about this situation for years, but the Otaru city government ignored the situation. Although they admitted that this activity was discrimination, they maintained that they had no power to stop it. T…
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Japanese Only
In 1993, an onsen (hotspring) in the city of Otaru, Hokkaido, decided it had had enough of Russian sailors not following bathhouse rules. The managers put up signs saying "JAPANESE ONLY," and refused entry to all foreigners.Excluded people complained about this situation for years, but the Otaru city government ignored the situation. Although they admitted that this activity was discrimination, they maintained that they had no power to stop it. T…
The Coming Internationalization
With the recent ethnic riots in France, The Economist (London) ran a thoughtful article ("Minority Reports") on their causes. It posed an important question: Why are some countries able to assimilate immigrants and their children more peacefully than others? It took a stab at comparing "integrationist" vs. "assimilationist" public policies in France, England, Germany, Holland, and the United States
Japan's Future as an International, Multicultural Society
Despite an express policy against importing unskilled foreign labor, the Government of Japan (GOJ) since 1990 has been following an unacknowledged backdoor "guest worker" program to alleviate a labor shortage that threatens to become chronic. Through its "Student", "Entertainer", "Nikkei repatriation", "Researcher", "Trainee", and "Intern" Visa programs, the GOJ has imported hundreds of thousands of cost-effective Non-Japanese (NJ) laborers to st…
Gaijin Hanzai Magazine and Hate Speech in Japan
A recent event making headlines worldwide was the publication of GAIJIN HANZAI URA FAIRU (The Underground Files of Gaijin Crime). This magazine, which went on sale at major Japanese bookstores and convenience stores nationwide, depicts foreigners as "dangerous" and "evil". Despite Japan's lack of a legal framework, or a civil society capable of curbing hate speech, activists managed to have the magazine removed from stores and put out of circulat…
Japan's Entrenched Discrimination Toward Foreigners
Will Japan ever overcome its distrust of foreigners? This question has been forcefully posed in various guises, most notably perhaps by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights Doudou Diene. In 2005 he concluded after a nine-day investigation in Japan that the authorities were not doing enough to tackle what he called Japan's "deep and profound racism" and xenophobia, particularly against its former colonial subjects. The report appe…
Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan
A new bilingual book by lawyer Higuchi Akira and author-activist Arudou Debito went on sale in March 2008. The book includes advice on securing stable visas, establishing businesses and secure jobs, resolving legal problems, and planning for the future from entry into Japan to death.　In this extract, they explain the rationale behind the project and offer advice for how to deal with problems in Japan and integrate into Japanese society
Japan's Rightward Swing and the Tottori Prefecture Human Rights Ordinance
Japan's swing to the right in the December 2012 Lower House election placed three-quarters of the seats in the hands of conservative parties. The result should come as no surprise. This political movement not only capitalized on a putative external threat generated by recent international territorial disputes (with China/Taiwan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands and with South Korea over Takeshima/Dokdo islands). It also rode a xenophobic wave durin…
Japanese Government Pressures American Publisher to Delete Textbook Treatment of Wartime Sexual Slavery
The debate on Japan's history of wartime sexual for political purposes.“ slavery (the ”Comfort Women“ issue) has heated up again, with the Japanese government extending its efforts to revise school textbooks to overseas publishers. Last November, McGraw-Hill, publisher of a world history textbook, “Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past” Volume Two, by history professors Herbert Ziegler and Jerry Bentley, was contacted by Jap…
Japan's Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu
M.G. Sheftall, Professor of Modern Japanese History at Shizuoka University and author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (Penguin 2005), was in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the battleship USS Missouri (site of the Japanese surrender in World War II) speaking at the dedication of a temporary exhibition of the Tokkō Kamikaze suicide pilots on April 10 and 11, 2015
Political science (8 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work)