tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post8765881946308649447..comments2023-12-31T15:40:06.675-08:00Comments on Peace Philosophy Centre: A Korean School in Kyoto Attacked by Xenophobic GroupsPeace Philosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884294048618803206noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-57633819694776983362009-12-21T07:01:32.793-08:002009-12-21T07:01:32.793-08:00There will be an Emergency meeting in Kyoto to pro...There will be an Emergency meeting in Kyoto to protest against the Zaitokukais' action and the police ambivalence. Information in Japanese here:<br />http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~mingakko/sasaeruki091204c.htm<br /><br />In English here:<br />http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2009/12/emergency-meeting-to-protest-aggression.html<br />and here:<br />http://liralen42.xanga.com/718646664/emergency-gathering-stop-aggression-towards-korean-schools-kyoto-tues-dec-22nd-7pm/TenThousandThingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364179920975074197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-57682138363412103932009-12-21T03:29:30.398-08:002009-12-21T03:29:30.398-08:00Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments and...Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments and for educating me with your wide-ranging knowledge of racism in North America. I think it makes sense that I see Japan as a more hate-tolerant society than North America because I know Japan better than I know North America. I also appreciate your introduction of compassionate approach to hate. I know people who hate, people who commit crimes are deprived of love. This is the kind of message I got from this film Power of Forgiveness. While the wrong deed should be prosecuted and the perpetrator should be held responsible, love and forgiveness can be granted at the same time. Justice and forgiveness can go hand-in-hand. It is easier said than done. How do we approach these zaitokukai people with love and compassion? I will keep that question in mind while I travel... thank you again.Peace Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884294048618803206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-7865171034445943612009-12-21T03:20:28.871-08:002009-12-21T03:20:28.871-08:00I think because you are so conscientious and live ...I think because you are so conscientious and live in Vancouver<br />which is a relatively liberal place--although white supremacists<br />(neo-Nazis, Skinheads) live there as well as in Seattle and Portland.<br />After all, the Pacific Northwest is one of the major areas where<br />Japanese North Americans were driven out and imprisoned (as well<br />as Chinese North Americans--as Jean Pfaelzer has written about in<br />her great book: "Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese<br />Americans." (http://www.udel.edu/PR/drivenout/)<br /><br />I think because you grew up in Japan, your field of vision is able<br />to see a widespread perspective in Japan that tolerates hate. However,<br />because you have not lived throughout North America, you don't as<br />readily see the equally hate-tolerant widespread perspectives<br />in N. America. I have lived throughout the US and have been shocked <br />repeatedly by<br />widespread and common racism - especially against Native Americans, <br />Americans<br />and immigrants of Mexican, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian, East<br />Asian heritage, as well as ongoing discrimination against African<br />Americans who are not from elite backgrounds.<br /><br />There is widespread tolerance of racism on talk radio, FOX and CNN,<br />especially towards Mexican and Latino immigrants). In Japan, you<br />see this kind of inflammatory racism on Channel 2, but not on NHK,<br />which is liberal, educated, and high-minded--even if it has submitted<br />to censorship in highly publicized instances.<br /><br />Racism in North America is worse than in Japan. While the<br />mentally disturbed right-wingers yelled at elementary school children<br />in Kyoto, in the US there have been violent attacks<br />on school children. It was only a forty decades ago that American<br />Ku Klux Klan members bombed and lynched African<br />American schoolchildren. I hear about verbal assaults on children<br />of color happening frequently in the US today. A postal clerk called<br />a friend's son a "monkey," in the same way Republicans have<br />created cartoons of Obama recently.<br /><br />Just a few years ago, there was a television show in that came<br />from the UK to the US where Japanese people were made to look<br />buck-toothed, squinty-eyed, and stupid. This is a common caricature<br />of Asians in the UK and North America. And I can't even go near<br />European racism which is deep-rooted and the source of North<br />American and other imperialistic forms of colonial racism. We should<br />not forget that it was only decades ago that Australians and North<br />Americans removed aboriginal children from their homes to be schooled<br />as "whites"--in physically, sexually, emotionally, as well as culturally<br />violent environments. The last Canadian "residential school" only<br />closed in 1996!<br /><br />With this comparative background, I am not excusing the right-wing <br />verbal<br />attack in Kyoto.<br /><br />It's grotesque and bizarre. But I don't think it compares with the<br />systematic abuse of children of color and ongoing discrimination in <br />North America.<br /><br />To deal with them, I suggest compassion and empathy that that would<br />be so mentally and emotionally sick (similarly to North American<br />white supremacist culture), that they would target children. That is <br />the opposite<br />of what they expect -- it's what Dr. King did with the white people<br />in Chicago who spit on him, threw rocks at him, and what thousands<br />of Civil Rights marchers did to the white supremacists in the American<br />South who lynched them, burned their churches, and bombed their<br />children.<br /><br />It's important to send out love towards their hate, while condemning <br />their<br />acts, and expressing attention towards all the wonderful Japanese<br />who watch Korean television, eat Korean food, marry Koreans, and<br />try to express normal humanity in everyday terms. There are plenty<br />of healthy, good, decent Japanese people -- just as there are in the <br />UK, Europe,<br />and North America despite their sick, racist histories -- and we need<br />to put on spotlight on these healthy people of good will if we want<br />to amplify and support their agency in our world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-78189629189196482882009-12-20T12:37:59.184-08:002009-12-20T12:37:59.184-08:00Watching the Youtube video made me cry.
Once again...Watching the Youtube video made me cry.<br />Once again I'm reminded of many stories of the Japanese racism and brutalities against Koreans for many decades. Especially, I think of those Koreans who were forcibly taken to Japan for labor during WW II and couldn't return home.I heard some horrible stories what happened to them and their children. In some cases, they were brutally massacred or murdered. And many of their children tried to hide their <br />Korean identity, not because they were ashamed but frightened.<br />While I'm outraged and distressed that such shameful acts of racism <br />still go on in Japan, I am still hopeful because of those Japanese <br />people such as you and your colleagues in Japan and abroad who continue striving to change the world.C.K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-58572663430273346832009-12-20T09:40:11.438-08:002009-12-20T09:40:11.438-08:00Thank you for informing us about this issue. This...Thank you for informing us about this issue. This kind of coward behavior should not be tolerated.M.D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-89273185957697350242009-12-20T00:01:48.839-08:002009-12-20T00:01:48.839-08:00お元気で活躍のことと思います。さ
て、こうした日本人の外国人排斥は、今に始まった事
ではなく、日...お元気で活躍のことと思います。さ <br />て、こうした日本人の外国人排斥は、今に始まった事 <br />ではなく、日本固有の問題でも無いとは思うが、あな <br />たが言われるように,日本人が(カネその他)で操ら <br />れているばかりではないと思う。こうした人達の論 <br />理、例えば,ここで語られている朝鮮人の子供達が <br />「スパイの。。」という北朝鮮人を全てスパイと看做 <br />すなどということには何の根拠もない。やはり問題 <br />は、誰か後ろで糸を引く人間がいるにしろいないにし <br />ろ、現実行動(右翼とそれに迎合する警察の)が法律 <br />違反であることを多くの日本人が指摘して警察内部の <br />良心ある部分が適当な処置をするように要求するべき <br />でしょう。このあたりが、日本人の事なかれ主義的態 <br />度の問題ですね。それにしても最近の日本は、右翼的 <br />暴力の威嚇がおおぴっらになり、言論の自由を盾に相 <br />手側を黙らせる雰囲気が強くなっている。今のうち <br />に、こうした芽を取り締まらないと、ファシズム的雰 <br />囲気が出来てしまう危険が感じられる。E.O.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-55136170042635308642009-12-20T00:00:58.363-08:002009-12-20T00:00:58.363-08:00何とも悲しく、腹立たしい事件でしょうか。
日本の憲兵隊も、ドイツのゲスタポも、ここカナダでは100年...何とも悲しく、腹立たしい事件でしょうか。<br />日本の憲兵隊も、ドイツのゲスタポも、ここカナダでは100年以上前から第二次大戦が終わったその後までも中国・日本・インド出身のアジア人を攻撃した白人レイシストも、必ずその背後には憎しみを人の心に植え付け、戦争を起こしては儲ける「ドン」がいます。「満州事変」の背後に三井がいたのと同様に。今回の事件で学校の前でプラカを持って子どもたちを脅かしていたのは、そういったドンの手先にすぎません。命令に従って「ナンボ」のお猿芸です。<br />こんな「やらせ」の事件が発生した時にこそ忘れてはならないのは、こういったチンピラたちも、更に言うならチンピラどもを黙って見ていたヒラ警官も、弱い立場の人。ドンの命令を聞かなければ「キャリア」にひびく、そしてもっと「もの聞きの良い」者と交替させられる。もちろんチンピラのやってる事は、どこの文明国の文化・法・宗教と照り合わせても「人道に反する行為」と見なされるものであり、それを見て見ぬ振りをする警察の(非)行為も「義務の放棄」てす。でも最大の悪党どもは、80年前に儲けたさのあまり自国民を騙して戦争で殺させ、死なせたような奴ら。東京裁判で不思議にも問われなかったような奴ら。麻生太郎あたりに聞けば、名前の一つや二つは知ってるでしょう。<br />今の日本をこういった無法者の手から取り返したければ、命令を聞かなくてはならない立場にある人たちより、命令を下す大無法者に焦点を当てなくてはなりません。私の提案は、京都県警長官、外務大臣、文部大臣などに「今回の事件の仕掛人が誰であり、違法行為を見過ごすよう警察官に命令を下したのは誰であり、誰がこれらについて調査するのか」との趣旨の連名公開書簡を送付する事。これは、事件の被害者ではなく、日本の市民がやるべきです。<br />平和あれD.M.noreply@blogger.com