Japan failing to address racism, UN investigator says

[dArKeR]

Japan harbors deep pockets of racial discrimination and its leaders show little will to fight the problem, an independent investigator for the UN said yesterday after a nine-day tour of the country.

Doudou Diene said he was encouraged by the support that the government gave him during his stay, but said he found officials often failed to understand or recognize the seriousness of racism and discrimination, especially against the ancestors of Japan's former outcast and ethnic Koreans.

"The lack of a strong political will to fight discrimination is a serious problem," Diene, an independent investigator for the UN Human Rights Commission, told a news conference after touring several Japanese cities to meet with officials and minority groups, and visit slums.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/12/2003263200

Visit "slums"? That's a new one on me.

[Maple]

1. I assumed he meant

areas where ethnic groups live, which are presumably poorer than mainstream Japan.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Aaaah

I am seriously confuse. Japan is full of Japanese. :crazy:
Man turning a grain of sand into Mt Everest hey WTF WTF look at your own backyard hey :puke:

[Maple]

3. Japan needs to become multicultural

"The name Sony summons visions of all things Japanese. Yet its board chairman, Iwao Nakatani, recently called for mass immigration, opening Japan to different faces and influences."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3708098.stm

And racism holds them back.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Hmm

It is because they so homogeneous
I live in a multicultural and multiracial country
So we very wary of racialism.
Whereas Japan don't have this problems so yes they will appear confused and idiotic when you talk about racialism in Japan cause me don't think it exist hey.

[Maple]

5. Oh it exists

in Japan and every other country.

Some countries have just learned to deal with it. Japan hasn't as yet because there are so few foreigners there.

I live in Canada, and we are very multicultural. Japan, China and a few other countries are not, and it can become a major problem when they have to deal with 'foreigners' for the first time.