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Visible Minorities: “Overtourism” As Racism

Some Japanese need to stop blaming the tourists for doing what they asked them to do—come here and enjoy themselves.

Visible Minorities: Hard to Root for Japan at Sports Events

It’s difficult for me to root for Japan teams in general. It’s not an issue of nationality. It’s a matter of how Japan as a society approaches international sports; we take all the fun out of it.

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: 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.

Voices of Japan’s Stranded

Japan’s decision to exclude most foreigners, including many foreign residents, from entering or reentering the national borders during the Covid pandemic has had a human and reputational cost which the mainstream media has tended to either ignore or to downplay.

Visible Minorities: Tokyo 2020 Olympics Postmortem

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are now past. This is a postmortem.

From Red to Gold in the Philippines

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz is being revered as the Philippines’ first Olympic gold medalist, but it has only been two years since she found her name “red-tagged,” or blacklisted, by the Duterte regime.

Anti-Vax Olympians Sending Unwelcome Message

For most of the world, the Olympic Games serve as a point for celebration and national unity. This time, however, many Japanese are gripped by worries about how the Games may serve to intensify the pandemic, and the fact that some of these athletes are promoting anti-vaccination ideology only deepens these concerns.