NHK and “Black Lives Matter”: Structural Racism in Japan - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Abstract: On June 7, 2020, NHK aired a TV program to explain racial divisions in the United States, following protests after the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. However, a computer graphic aired during the program and posted on NHK’s official Twitter account drew widespread criticism for distorting the image of black people and the reasons for their anger. NHK quickly retracted
To Hell with Happy Endings! An Anti-School Manifesto
To Hell with Happy Endings! An Anti-School Manifesto In an interview held in August 2017, Tsuneno Yujiro, an activist and writer who experienced futōkō (school non-attendance) and the author of “To Hell with Happy Endings! An Anti-School Manifesto,” said: Now I am unemployed, and although I might work part-time at some point in the future, my mental illness is severe to the point where I receive a
The “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan”: A Critique A japanese translation is available.
The “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan”: A Critique A japanese translation is available. Tsuneno Yujiro Summary: Some Japanese studies scholars recently published an “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan,” to counter the revisionist atmosphere surrounding the “comfort women” issue in Japan. While the author agrees that historical revisionism should be criticized, he takes issu
Uemura Takashi Archives - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Uemura TakashiUemura Takashi is a former reporter of Asahi Shimbun, and currently an adjunct lecturer at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo. Born in Kochi in 1958, he worked for the Asahi Shimbun as a reporter from 1982 until March 2014. In 1991 he wrote two articles on the first “comfort woman” to come forward, Ms. Kim Hak-sun. He has been criticized as a “reporter who initiated the comfort wom
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