Visible Minorities: Never Forget Japan’s Racist Covid Policies
This month Japan finally lifted its Covid restrictions and reopened its borders to tourists. Well, whoop-de-doo.
Tag Archives: Tokyo Olympics (2020)
Japan’s Widening Olympic Scandal
Well over a year since its closing ceremony, the Tokyo Olympics continue to find a place among Japan’s newspaper headlines, this time in connection with a widening bribery scandal which has touched even a former prime minister.
Visible Minorities: On Naomi Osaka Heckling
At a recent tournament in Indian Wells, California, Japan tennis champion Naomi Osaka was heckled by some troll in the audience who shouted out “you suck!” while she was playing on court.
Visible Minorities: Good Riddance to an Evil Man
Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, who died February 1, was an evil man. Any honest obituary would admit as such.
Visible Minorities: Human Rights Top Ten for 2021
Since 2008, I have always devoted my end-year columns to counting down the Top Ten human rights issues as they pertain to Non-Japanese residents of Japan. This year I’m moving this feature to the Shingetsu News Agency.
APA Hotel Amenities Not Always Pleasant
Ahead of Donald Trump’s second visit to Japan in 2019, a Japanese hotelier invited the US president’s former chief strategist and senior advisor Steve Bannon to give a “special lecture” in Tokyo. That hotelier’s name is Toshio Motoya.
Japan Travel Ban Still Putting Lives on Hold
Despite the drastic decrease of new Covid cases in recent weeks and more than two-thirds of the population having become fully vaccinated, the Japanese government has still given no explanation why it is continuing to refuse to let international students and some foreign workers back into the country.
Mothers Too Victims of Parental Child Abduction in Japan
Japan’s questionable single custody system continues to come under fire, with particular attention devoted to the recent hunger strike of Vincent Fichot, a Frenchman who had his children taken from him by his Japanese wife. Less attention, however, has been given to the fact that his campaign resonated with many mothers in Japan as well.
Visible Minorities: Tokyo 2020 Olympics Postmortem
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are now past. This is a postmortem.
Beijing Olympics Facing Potential Boycott
As the tumultuous and controversial Tokyo Olympics came to an end, the world set its eyes on Beijing, where the Winter Olympics is to be held in just six months. The 2022 Games could become even more contentious than the event which just closed.
