Mainichi: Foreigners' Home Sweet 'Homi' greeted by local cold shoulder
Tucked in a corner of the Aichi Prefecture city of Toyota, the Homi Danchi housing estate most famous for its racial problems, may offer a vision of the Japan of the future...an influx of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants from the start of the 1990s saw the housing estate split along racial lines as Japanese residents complained fiercely about loud Latino music, cars parked illegally and rubbish dumped everywhere...But the Brazilian-Japanese were not going to take things lying down. When confronted by a group of right-wing thugs driving a loudspeaker screaming out messages along the lines of "Foreigner Go Home," the foreigners took on the harassers in a very non-Japanese way: they firebombed the soundtruck...Foreigners blame the Japanese for the uneasy stand-off. "All the Japanese ever do is complain about us," a Japanese-Brazilian resident of the housing estate tells Spa! "They don't accept us at all. We try to greet them and they just ignore us. They don't want to have anything to do with us"...more...

Similar piece on Homi here

Chinese, Korean and Latin American (and Osaka dudes) are extraordinary selfish.
This is the reason they are hated in Japan.
Before blaming Japan, they should change their selfishness.

If both groups are ethnically Japanese - then how can it be a racial issue?



Or, are the Brazilians the Jap equivalent of mudbloods?







I liked the way they took care of that right-winger's sound truck

thugs driving a loudspeaker screaming out messages along the lines of "Foreigner Go Home," the foreigners took on the harassers in a very non-Japanese way: they firebombed the soundtruck...

Those guys in in the sound trucks are dickless wimps. Burn "em all!

I percieve this is going to get worse, not better.

Asians are more stubborn than southern whites on stuff like this I believe.

Taro Toporific wrote::banana: Those guys in in the sound trucks are dickless wimps. Burn "em all!

Truth of the matter is that a large percentage of the sound truck drivers and riders are part time college students that may, or may not believe the drivel coming through speakers.

This is the gospel according to my close mate at the office and former chief of our Paris office, who is as international wise and minded as one from the land of the rising rice ball can be, drove one of the sound vans for part time money while going to Keio U. He and a lot of his friends did it for four years and said maybe one out of the some twenty of them, seriously listened to the speakers!

TennoChinko wrote:If both groups are ethnically Japanese - then how can it be a racial issue?



Or, are the Brazilians the Jap equivalent of mudbloods?







I liked the way they took care of that right-winger's sound truck

Most of "Brazilian-Japanese" living in Japan are fake Brazilian-Japanese having no J-blood.

gboothe wrote:Truth of the matter is that a large percentage of the sound truck drivers and riders are part time college students that may, or may not believe the drivel coming through speakers.

This is the gospel according to my close mate at the office and former chief of our Paris office, who is as international wise and minded as one from the land of the rising rice ball can be, drove one of the sound vans for part time money while going to Keio U. He and a lot of his friends did it for four years and said maybe one out of the some twenty of them, seriously listened to the speakers!

One that I talked to confessed that he really didn't like the imperial music, as it made him sleepy. He was more into J-pop and old 1970s J-hippie stuff.

American Oyaji wrote:Asians are more stubborn than southern whites on stuff like this I believe.

Racist

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Racist

Yeah. They really are racist, arent they.

American Oyaji wrote:Yeah. They really are racist, arent they.

I know you know I'm talking about you, so stop trying to be cute.

Takechanpoo wrote:Most of "Brazilian-Japanese" living in Japan are fake Brazilian-Japanese having no J-blood.

They might get some J-blood soon though.

Takechanpoo wrote:Most of "Brazilian-Japanese" living in Japan are fake Brazilian-Japanese having no J-blood.

What a load of bullshit, by the way. Actually most of them are 100% Japanese according to research done by Joshua Hotaka Roth for his book "Brokered Homeland."

Take, Why are you such an ignorant prick?

yakitori wrote:Take, Why are you such an ignorant prick?

Because it's the official Japanese government way! If you don't like something either ignore it or pretend it is something else!

gboothe wrote:Truth of the matter is that a large percentage of the sound truck drivers and riders are part time college students that may, or may not believe the drivel coming through speakers.

This is the gospel according to my close mate at the office and former chief of our Paris office, who is as international wise and minded as one from the land of the rising rice ball can be, drove one of the sound vans for part time money while going to Keio U. He and a lot of his friends did it for four years and said maybe one out of the some twenty of them, seriously listened to the speakers!

That's pretty interesting, GB, thanks for that. But most times I see the trucks here they are accompanied by the huge buses as well. One assumes you'd need a special license to drive one of those bad boys. But maybe they contract those out to retired Kintetsu tour bus drivers, huh? It never occured to me that the drivers might be just doing a part time gig. Fascinating, and very clever of the old right wingers.

amdg wrote:That's pretty interesting, GB, thanks for that. But most times I see the trucks here they are accompanied by the huge buses as well. One assumes you'd need a special license to drive one of those bad boys. But maybe they contract those out to retired Kintetsu tour bus drivers, huh? It never occured to me that the drivers might be just doing a part time gig. Fascinating, and very clever of the old right wingers.

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Some additional insights on the right-wingers that I did not realize (like the predominance of ethnic Koreans -- the equivalent of a black man or jew joining the Klan?)

http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/05/uyoku-obscure-cult.html
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/11/uyoku-obscure-cult-2.html
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2007/02/uyoku-obscure-clans-3.html
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2007/02/fake-uyoku-obscure-clans-4.html

Brazilians helped me pass my J-drivers-license text a couple of years ago - they were friendly and full of great advice on what the examiners were looking for, even though the examiners were barking at them in Japanese whilst using their best high-school English on me, a complete double standard.

My wife and I were taking the Hibiya Line last Sunday, and we sat in a car full of Brazilians. It's fascinating how racially hetrogeneous they are: some of them were whiter even than I, with blond hair and blue eyes, and others were quite swarthy. None of them looked at all Japanese, though I might not have noticed them if they did. It was hilarious the way they were chatting loudly and gesticulating in that quintessentially Latin way as the J-folks sat there with exquisitely pained expressions, that same look they get when a noisy mentally-impaired person is in the car (e.g., me). At one point a mini-skirted Russian chick got on and there was a ripple of appreciation from the admiring Brazilians. Great show.

How ironic that the J-govt sought out to import workers who were ethnically similar to the Japanese but ended up with a group of folks whose culture couldn't be more different. They may have finally gotten a clue, and perhaps that's why you see more Chinese and other Asian workers these days, at least in Kanto.

TennoChinko wrote:the equivalent of a black man or jew joining the Klan?

Not really. Has any Klan group ever knowingly admitted a black man to their membership ranks?

TennoChinko wrote:http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/05/uyoku-obscure-cult.html
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/11/uyoku-obscure-cult-2.html
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2007/02/uyoku-obscure-clans-3.html
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2007/02/fake-uyoku-obscure-clans-4.html

Read those links years ago. Pretty funny stuff.

amdg wrote:Not really. Has any Klan group ever knowingly admitted a black man to their membership ranks?

I seem to recall about 20 years ago or so some black construction worker or whatnot joined the Klan in Alberta but I can't find any references to him.

amdg wrote:Not really. Has any Klan group ever knowingly admitted a black man to their membership ranks?

No, aside from that hilarious Dave Chappelle's pseudo-documentary...

However, a black cop did manage infiltrate the Klan:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10928153/

[quote]
African-American cop infiltrates the KKK
Ron Stallworth speaks about his experience with the Klansmen
updated 9:56 p.m. ET Jan. 19, 2006

In the late 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan was expanding in Colorado. Ron Stallworth was an undercover cop who tried to infiltrate the group. He disguised himself as a bigot and signed up with a local KKK chapter.

He began by answering a newspaper ad by phone and used what he said were all the buzzwords the Klansmen liked to hear. They liked Stallworth, asked him to join. Time went by and he became intimately involved with the group. He even exchanged numerous phone calls with Klan leader David Duke, who would often mock or insult minorities on the phone with Stallworth.

He was considered one of the KKK's most loyal members. So one day, the group even asked him to be the leader of their local chapter in Colorado Springs. But there was one huge hurdle Stallworth had to overcome during his work, he’]

And, this black musician & author, Daryl Davis apparently befriended quite a few Klansmen:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/klan.htm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:What a load of bullshit, by the way. Actually most of them are 100% Japanese according to research done by Joshua Hotaka Roth for his book "Brokered Homeland."

If they are real Brazilian-Japanese, they need not to forge their passport.