2014年10月18日10：49
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Gursewak’s parents, who are Sikhs, fled to Japan from India in the 1990s. For several years, they lived without visas under the radar of the authorities until they were put on a status known as “provisional release” in 2001. It means they can stay in Japan as long as their asylum application is under review.
Asylum seekers are building Japan’s roads and sewers
But it also means they can’t work, they don’t have health insurance and they need permission to travel outside the prefecture where they live. They are also subject to unannounced inspections by immigration officers at their home and they face detention at any time. There are currently some 4,700 people with this status living in Japan.
Gursewak, who has never left Japan, has inherited his parents’ provisional release status and all the restrictions that go with it. That fate has exposed him and more than 500 other children who share his predicament to lives of perpetual uncertainty. They can go to government-run schools, where tuition is largely free, but university is out of reach for most because they and their parents aren’t allowed to work and so can’t afford the fees. These children, many of whom are asylum seekers, will soon face a stark choice between forced unemployment and working illegally.
“Since I was born I’ve only ever interacted with Japanese people,” said Gursewak, who is now 17, speaks the language with native fluency and considers himself Japanese. “I don’t get why Japan won’t accept me.”
While there were almost 14,000 asylum cases under review at the end of 2015, Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year. The year before that, the number was 11.
Friendly reminder that Japanese human rights violations are way under-reported. The country is a fortress, hardly any immigrants or refugees are allowed in, and the few that are are exploited for cheap labor. The criminal justice system is notoriously corrupt, including numerous accusations of prosecutors and police straight up framing clients. The death penalty in Japan is also extra inhumane because inmates on death row are not told the date of their execution and essentially live in fear that every day could be their last.
Being ‘hafu’ in Japan: Mixed-race people face ridicule, rejection
Hafu account for a small portion of Japan’s population. According to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, approximately 36,000 children with a non-Japanese parent are born every year in the country, accounting for about 3 percent of births.
People were calling her the japanese equivalent of the n word yet japan is obsessed with black culture and looking as black as possible…amazing
Non-black people want black culture without black people attached to it.
I’ve reblogged the video already but these two comments above me are really important– you cannot deny that anti-blackness is a global concept when everyone has a negative word/name for black people… But yeah go ahead and wear our clothes and sing our songs and do our dances, ye?
Beirut: Two suicide bombings have killed 41+ people. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34805466
Japan: A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Japan after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off its south-western coast. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34816292
Paris: Dozens dead, 3 explosions, and 60+ hostage situation. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34814203
they made a horror movie about the suicide forest in japan and gave the two main parts to Natalie Dormer and another white woman. are you fucking kidding me
1) disrespectful and inappropriate to make a horror film for western audiences about a real place in japan where real Japanese people have really killed themselves
2) white women starring in a movie set in japan where things Japanese people have done set the backbone of the film. really
using real dead Japanese people to set the ambiance for a horror film when suicide is a cultural epidemic there is awful
Japan hotel and temple join forces to offer gay and lesbian weddings
Draped in wedding kimonos, standing in a Zen temple built in the 1590s, gay and lesbian couples have a new option for a commitment ceremony in Japan
According to the deputy head priest at Shunkoin Temple, Japanese buddhism doesn’t have anything against homosexuality (source: Mainichi Shimbun(in Japanese)) - cool :)
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that photo is so beautiful i just sighed out loud
JAPAN. Tokyo. 1961. A father pauses before a shrine while taking his son to school. / JAPAN. Tokyo. 1984. Disneyland. By Burt Glinn
sovaet-deactivated20170306 asked:
japan is okay. the tsunami warning has been lifted
reclaimingasia answered:
Please get this around. Japan is fine.
-Mod AJ
Meet Miyamoto Eriana
Miyamoto, who was born to a Black American father and Japanese mother in Nagasaki, beat out 44 contestants to win a spot to represent Japan in the Miss Universe Pageant. She is the first ever Afro-Asian to represent Japan. “I thought, ‘I wonder if a hafu like me would be okay,’ and had insecurities,” Miyamoto said. “I think the world pageant will be a bit more vigorous, but I want to be myself and try my best.” She studied abroad in America and returned to Japan after graduating from college. Her hobbies include working with tools and motorcycles.
Black girls taking over the world!
In Japan, radiation creates monsters (Godzilla) and in America radiation creates superheroes
Shockingly, it’s almost like Japan and America have very different narratives surrounding nuclear fallout. Now, if we all think very very hard, maybe someone could think of why this might be.