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On April 29, the Day of Showa, I went to visit Yasukuni Shrine, alone. This is its second torii, a shrine gateway. I had prepared an A4 piece of paper. It says "Down with the Day of Showa," and features a Hinomaru crossed out. It also includes my Japanese blog URL, http://d.hatena.ne.jp/toled/ and my Twitter ID, @toled. I signed my name, Yujiro Tsuneno. Then I put the paper on one of the legs of t
Does Japan have territorial rights over the Diaoyu / Senaku Islands? Here's what two Japanese guys think. Or, if you read Japanese, check out the links below: 釣魚台/尖閣をめぐる日本の国ぐるみの排外主義に抗議します・前編(歴史編) 釣魚台/尖閣をめぐる日本の国ぐるみの排外主義に抗議します・後編(現状編) Oh, and No to Hate Speech Action has published a statement in English. Handout of Press Conference
This is such a short notice, but SYI, a pro-immigrant organization based in Tokyo, will hold a festival at Shinagawa Kita Futo Koen (品川北ふ頭公園), which is located near the infamous detention center, starting 6 p.m. on Monday, August 23. They will protest against the inhumane treatment of the detainees and Japan's unjust immigration policies in general, while singing, dancing, and drinking, in additio
I'm in the United States for some family emergency, where I've met some amazing people who choose to offer help to a complete stranger. They will be examples I aspire to be in the rest of my life. Here I'm pretty much tied up with solving family problems and haven't got much time to keep up with the current events, but I did learn about the death of a young boy at the Mexican border, which I guess
I found a tiny article in The Asahi Shimbun this morning, about the death of a Ghanaian man. Around three p.m. yesterday, he was about to be deported from the country and forced to board an EGYPTAIR flight. He reportedly resisted, and was "restrained" by immigration officers. He then "stopped moving," and was taken to the hospital in the airport, where his death was confirmed. That's about all in
Last summer, there was a change of government here in Japan, from the Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党) to the Democratic Party (民主党). From the leftist perspective, it is difficult to see any substantial difference between the two, aside from the extra word in the name of the former, but the new administration does employ some new rhetoric. A keyword here is fraternity (the gender insensitivity is
The following is my attempt at Judith Butler impersonation at my twitter, inspired by the Habermas imposter: If identity is a tentative effect of discursive activity which only appears retroactively, then what does it mean to be a Judith Butler? It is troublesome to claim to be Judith Butler even if that name has been attached to the person that I occupy whole life. Indeed, this tweet itself, whic
One of the recent developments in the Japanese political landscape is the increasing visibility of openly racist grass roots groups, such as Zaitoku-kai(在特会) and Shukenkaifukuwo-Mezasu-Kai(主権回復を目指す会). To get a taste, watch this: In this video, the racist activists are attacking an elementary school (Yes, an elementary school) for residents of Korean origin in Kyoto. That happened early last month.
The Asahi Shimbun is speculating on the possibility of Haruki Murakami's wining the Nobel Prize in Literature in today's article. It fails to provide any solid sign that he might, but perhaps it's not too unlikely in the future, if not this year, given his international popularity. Earlier this year, the Japanese author won the Jerusalem Prize. When it became public that he was to receive the lite
The University of Kyoto is threatening to remove a temporary residencial facility that belongs to a labor union to end their partial occuaption of the campus. As I write this, it's 10 a.m. (JST), which is when they warned they'll do it. The school's got a phone number: 81-75-753-7531 You can leave a message addressed to the President and Board members there. Neither the operator nor the secretary
Two events are planed for this coming Sunday. See this: http://extasy07.exblog.jp/9869435/ The letter is addressed to a labor organization called Union Extasy and is signed by two board members of the University of Kyoto. The latter are threatening to suppress an ongoing occupation of one part of the campus by the former. They say they'll do it Sunday. The union says they won't back down. The loca
What is Hinomaru? It is the Japanese equivalent of the Nazi swastika. It was adopted as the national flag of the Empire of Japan at its inception. Even after its defeat in 1945, Hinomaru was not abandoned. It has continued as the symbol of the country, and if you take a short walk in any city here, you can find it everywhere, at government buildings, streets, schools, commercial outlets and so on,
Some years ago, I was an undergrad in England. Israel was doing bad things then as they do now. One day, I got an e-mail calling for an "academic boycott." We shouldn't invite Israeli professors to give lectures. We shouldn't take their invitations. European institutions shouldn't collaborate with their Israeli equivalents. It was a lot more complicated, but that's all I still remember. On the lis
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