Despite making up only 1% of Japan's land mass, Ryukyu (Okinawa) hosts 70% of US military bases in Japan.
US military bases cover about 25% of the land area of the main island of Ryukyu.
Westerners do not care about indigenous or minorities of other countries. As far as they concerned, they’re all part of the same race/ethnicity/culture. E.g. “Ainu people are still Asians which means it homogenous!!!” or “Pashtun? Tajik? I don’t care! They’re all freaking afghani Muslims!”
Only the west is “not homogenous” because white people can only tell you apart if you stand next to them and your skin is darker.
Only the west is “not homogenous” because white people can only tell you apart if you stand next to them and your skin is darker.
it's also because they like making up pretend ethnicities like Moldoslovasconian and shit like that while knowing nothing about the rest of the world
"uhh....they're just all Indian!"
"yea I'm not a huge fan of European food"
"WTF DO YOU MEAN THERE'S GERMAN AND FRENCH AND AND MACEDONIAN ANDAdvanced European racism technology is required to allow for the kind of distinctions that allow the Dutch to be racist against Limburgs
It's like you said in that other post about Japan: this site is weird sometimes. In that post (https://hexbear.net/comment/4649427) people were running around saying "not every person is Japan is XYZ" but in this post all of a sudden it's "oh yeah Japan is super xenophobic." It's not wonder that the western left is completely impotent. It's this kind of dumb ass flip flopping depending on their own personal emotions...
Japan also has a very concerning 99% conviction rate.
That's a stat that gets trotted out when a Cracker gets indicted for a crime in Japan and the Westoid media wants to weasel them out of it by accusing the Japanese justice system of being corrupt or unfair or whatever.
The articles who harp on about this 99% rate seldom stop to tell you that American Federal Courts often convict in the 99.8% range (pdf), or that the UK convicts somewhere in the 80 to 85% range.
Of course the Japanese justice system is broken in many ways, but it's not helpful to keep repeating this number like it means anything, especially when Japanese prosecutors indict at rates lower than American and English ones.
China also has around the same conviction rates as Japan because indictments get withdrawn if acquittal is on the cards. I think there's definitely problems with that kind of approach, but just pointing out the stats doesn't paint the whole picture.
It's literally what Ace Attorney is a Statement about for the most part and why prosecutors are the bad guys in that series
Deeply sad how much Japanese media points out these major issues with their society and it seems like it’s all shrugged at. The prevalence of dire working conditions and how that gets portrayed as essentially something that’s just a fact of life is just shitty. Guess that’s what happens when the US helps utterly crush all socialist/labor movements during occupation
Weebs will complain about evil authoritarian China but then jerk of to single party state monarchist Japan with a 99% conviction rate
thats partly because they don't typically go to court unless they know for sure the case is a guilty case. they send the easy guilty cases to court. it's shown by their relatively low indictment rate (implying they're very selective on which cases go to court)
I can't be assed to reply to every single one of the replies here but the Japanese criminal justice system will hold you without bail indefinitely in order to extract a confession.
Japan: has fully funded social welfare, cheap housing, job placement programs, city services etc that keep desperate people from turning to crime.
Westerners: "Basically it's because they're racist and that's a good thing."
Japan aint perfect but in my eight years of living there I noticed that nobody locked their door unless they lived on an American military base.
There's also the Yakuza mafia problem which they completely ignore
I was able to make a weeb get concerned about yakuza once. I told him that a lot of their money comes from Chinese real estate developers who want land in Japan. I also mentioned most yakuza senior members can trace their ancestry to impoverished Korean immigrants.
This guy started ranting blood and soil Japanese nationalism after learning that. He's a white guy from Louisiana.
Noted CIA associates by the way.
I have a Latino friend who lives in Japan. Whenever he goes around the Tokyo area cops will stop and ask him if he's lost (a way of asking if he belongs in the area). He's discovered that if he assures the cops he's actually Latino, not Filipino or Indian, the cops get visibly less tense and let him go.
I talked to an African American dude who lived in Japan and asked him if getting stopped was annoying. He said something like "yeah, but at least I know the Japanese cop isn't going to shoot me."
Not making excuses for Japanese cops ofc, they should go find something more productive to do than hassle random people.
I’m very glad I’m no longer a weeb because having to interact with japanophiles who don’t see this and other problems really angers me
The worst part is that the Japanese xenophobia/racism discourse is not focused on Zainichi Koreans/Chinese people, or Burakumin, or South and South East Asian people, or African people, or Ainu and Ryukyu people.
It's always drowned out by white guys yelling about how nobody wants to sit next to them on the train and how that's the real racism.
That one weeb Podcaster Garnt has literally talked about the systemic racism and xenophobia he deals with in Japan, mainly cops, because he's ethnically Thai.
Ah, a fellow trashman perhaps?
Rarely nowadays
but it's okay because animes is so cool, amirite, my fellow otakus???
The existence of the Burakumin proves to me that in the absence of an out-group to discriminate against, a people will artificially create one
Except it's not "they didn't have anyone to discriminate against - so they invented a group", it was class based to keep people in those jobs be excluded from almost everything else and exploit their labor that way.
Yup, legit just a group that did the jobs everyone considered "unclean" but was also vital for society (i.e. butchers, tanners, trash collectors, etc). Blood based class systems are legit just old timey artificial racism (i.e. creating outgroups)
g00d post
"But there are barely any Ainu people left" -Some Lib
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The Japanese government has been pretty shitty to the Ryukyu and Ainu peoples, tho. They act like a settler state sometimes when it comes to dealing with indigenous peoples.
