I found an interesting view on that microaggressions article by Gord Sellar in Korea. He bases his article around Highly Sensitive Persons (perhaps as flaky a concept as microaggressions itself, but…) to explain why Mr Arudou and others can have a completely different experience to that of NHSNJ (as it were). His interesting proposition is: [...]
Category Archives: Inconsistency
An interesting view on microaggressions (and some other stuff)
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 19, 2012
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A twice emigrant speaks on immigration
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 6, 2012
211 comments
Yes, it’s Just Be Cause time again. No, it’s not the hoped-for wrap-up. Yes, it’s poor, even more poor than usual. About the new special immigration scheme: You must get 70 points on the Justice Ministry’s qualifying scale (see www.moj.go.jp/content/000083223.pdf) And it’s tough, really tough. Take the test and see if you qualify (I don’t). [...]
Schlong-measuring war opens up new front on Hoofin’
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 23, 2011
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Borrowing a title from Hikosaemon’s blog, I note that there is an interesting comment thread on this article on Hoofin’s blog. Let’s start with one issue that is quite unconnected with the article but features in the comments – Hoofin’ says, in the context of phoning up places with discriminatory signs: The idea that friendly [...]
Good news or bad social science?
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on June 6, 2011
36 comments
Good news about the NJ legacy of Greg Lekich and the Teachers for Japan organisation. What exactly are the debunkable claims of "fly-jin"? But anyway, I am confused by why Mr Arudou chose to categorise this as good news, as the news article is full of Bad Social Science™. I don’t see a survey as [...]
"Japanese Only" signs have stopped proliferating
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on January 7, 2011
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I know that I’m not the only person who gets irritated by the Rogue’s/Rogues’ Gallery (I prefer the apostrophe-s version in the page title) and the opening statement: Don’t let anyone convince you that the problem isn’t spreading nationwide in Japan… Further down the page is a similar statement: …now running unchecked throughout Japan… This [...]
Heterogeneous responses
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on November 18, 2010
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I couldn’t help but notice that despite this month’s Just Be Cause being in part about Mr Arudou’s adverse reaction to Japan being described as homogeneous, yet the introduction to a Canada CBC radio piece says: But Japan is an unusually homogenous — some say xenophobic — country. This claim is unchallenged by Mr Arudou.
A British-American-Hokkaidoian-Japanese writes
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 13, 2010
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Mr Arudou decides to tackle Muneo Suzuki’s latest failure in his appeals against his bribery conviction. As usual, the supposed subject of article is not the most interesting bit, it’s the small insights into Mr Arudou’s thought processes and character than make the article most curious. First, on the man himself: he mentions twice how [...]
Intriguing but incorrect survey translation
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 28, 2010
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Looking at a comment from a commenter who was recently told to fuck off, I see this: The Ministry of Justice has conducted an online survey in 2006. Of the 437 participants 426 said: ○ I oppose a more liberal acceptance / admittance of foreigners. ○ With the current foreigners crime wave sweeping our country, [...]
Non-Japanese only sushi restaurant in Okinawa
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 10, 2010
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The recent story about an exclusionist restaurant in Okinawa, has rather predictably got everyone all in a tizzy. Mr Arudou himself doesn’t condone it, publically at least, although he has made no effort to contact the owner, or otherwise highlight any perceived wrong-doing by the owner.However, what I did find curious was Mr Arudou’s heavy [...]
Another rational poster pushed under the bus
James Annan has been putting up a brave fight against the scaremongerers in this thread, but he did get a bit short with other posters, perhaps partially because he was getting fed up having his comments selectively edited. Now, what first caused this issue to come to the fore was this comment from AJ (my [...]