Japanese DNA is biologically "different' than FGs

[Taro Toporific]

Forensic science fiction
Bad science and racism underpin police policyTHE ZEIT GIST By Debito ARUDOU / Japan Times Tuesday, January 13, 2004
We periodically hear from nationalists about Japan's distinctiveness -- how "Japaneseness" is a matter of "race" and "blood," not citizenship or culture. This is usually disregarded as mere unscientific sentiment from fringe elements.
But not, it seems, by the National Police Agency. One of its branches, the National Research Institute of Police Science (NRIPS), in 2001 proposed a policy to create an "index" ("shihyou") of "foreignness" in its forensic crime...

[cstaylor]

This is is why I am always amazed at why some foreigners take Japanese citizenship? What's the point?

[omae mona]

I've known that my DNA is different for several weeks now.

At my last haircut, the nice young lady cutting my hair announced that she had just given me a quite excellent haircut. However, she explained, it was not due to her skill - it was due to the shape of my head. This, she elaborated, was due to my DNA, which was different than Japanese people's DNA. She pointed out where my head was rounder than Japanese heads, which have a big flat section, and showed me how my hair did not stick out at inconvenient angles. My DNA apparently caused my subarashii nose to go quite well with the haircut, as well.

When I got home, my wife explained that this was all a bunch of hogwash. Everybody knows, she says, that Japanese people's heads have a big flat section because of the head placement when Japanese babies sleep.

So now I'm confused... is my excellent haircut due to my DNA or how I slept as a baby?

[kurohinge1]

... Back to the NRIPS: "Foreigners have a wide variety of characteristic proteins that are different than Japanese. . . . We will develop an index which reveals, even in minute traces of organic material, special characteristics of foreigners, in order to make heads or tails of things in ways we couldn't before ..."

I'll donate certain proteins, but only to the Miniskirt Police !

[GomiGirl]

DNA is different for everybody.. only identical twins/triplets etc have the same DNA.

In terms of simiarities.. these tend to happen within families because - gosh golly - blood relatives are related by their genetic material.

[kurohinge1]

Perhaps the foreigners could all wear, say, yellow stars, indicating the extent of their foreignness - a Foreignness Guide (FG).

For example, a fifth generation local with faint Korean tainting would only be FG-1, whereas your straight-off-the-boat-and-looks-nothing-like-us types would be FG-5.

Then, when a crime is associated with any level of foreignness, they can just round up all FG with that rating.

I feel this was tried somewhere before, though ...



But they didn't use the Miniskirt Police

[Taro Toporific]

Perhaps the foreigners could all wear, say, yellow stars, indicating the extent of their foreignness - a Foreignness Guide (FG). ]

Meanwhile, Korea is getting better, ha, ha...

Korea to Make It Easier for Foreigners to LiveDIGITAL CHOSUN / Jan. 12, 2004 14:41 KST
Korea is stepping up efforts to make life easier for foreigners living in the country. The Presidential Committee on the Northeast Asian Business Hub said on Sunday that it plans to roll out a set of measures next month aimed at improving business environment and overall living conditions for foreign residents as well as Korea-based overseas companies.
The five-year project which is to be released in both Korean and English will address more than 100 issues...

[AssKissinger]

If today's Korea is anything like it was when I lived there they got a long way to go until they reach Japan's standards.

[Taro Toporific]

If today's Korea is anything like it was when I lived there they got a long way to go until they reach Japan's standards.

Actually I was just trying to get a rise out you guys. The NewsOnJapan.com is down right now so I was reading the sister site, NewsOnKorea.com (and getting sick). I always forget how "good" Japan is compared to the bad copies, Korea and Taiwan.

[Big Booger]

Hogwash...

[Caustic Saint]

If today's Korea is anything like it was when I lived there they got a long way to go until they reach Japan's standards.

A-fucking-men.

Let's start with adopting the 3-year "belongs to the individual, not the employer" work visa.

[cstaylor]

I've known that my DNA is different for several weeks now. My DNA apparently caused my subarashii nose to go quite well with the haircut, as well.

At least your stylist has some brains. I was asked by a coworker why gaijin have large noses, and I sent him packing with "different monkeys".

Anyone else ever run across a Japanese with a huge head (like Matsui's)? If the guy is skinny, they look like a huge lollipop. I think I'll keep my standard-sized head and big nose, thank you.

[Molokidan]

Miniskirt police. . . so damn cute...

[FeLingHi]

Still searching for that missing link.

(My chain ain't quite broken as of late)