Japan's Depressing Racism
Last month, a group of 14 Muslims filed suit against the central and Tokyo metropolitan governments. The group demanded over 150 million yen in compensation for violations of their privacy and religious freedom stemming from the leak of documents from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. The documents reportedly contained information about their 'birthplaces, home and work addresses, names and birthdays of spouses, children and associates, personal histories and immigration records,' in what appears to be a textbook case of profiling—in some cases, merely practicing the Islamic faith was sufficient grounds for surveillance.
This was undoubtedly an egregious act of discrimination. But it’s also not altogether unsurprising in Japan. It’s unfortunate that the Muslim community has suffered discrimination, but the truth is if you are any kind of minority in Japan, then you should prepare yourself for some sort discrimination. And don’t bother confronting the Japanese about it. They won’t even think it's discrimination.
In 2006, Doudou Diène, then a United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of discrimination, published a report in which he discussed the pervading discrimination against three specific groups: the national minorities (including the burakumin, the Ainu, and the Ryukyuans), the descendants of former Japanese colonies (including Koreans and Chinese), and lastly, foreigners and migrants from the rest of the world. Although published several years ago, the report's claims remain valid today considering the minimal progress that has been made on combating discrimination in Japan. I highly recommend reading it, but note that the report is merely a good primer on discrimination in Japan. As such, it gives an excellent ‘lay of the land,’ but fails to capture the scale of discrimination in Japan.
For a start, Diène's report doesn’t discuss continued discrimination against kikokushijo , or returnees—children who have returned to Japan after living overseas. For a moment during the 1980s, during Japan's bubble, these children (and other well-travelled Japanese as well) came to be seen as valuable assets for Japan’s ambitions for expansion and internationalization. Yet despite this brief respite in the negative image of returnees, today the image lingers of them as ‘problem children’ who need to be ‘reintegrated’ into Japanese society as if they are defective. And this is one of the problems with a society modelled on collectivist ideals: there’s no value given to differences, and different ways of thinking. Individuality isn’t a quality that is appreciated in Japan, it’s frequently abhorred and discriminated against.
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