Family Mart Magazine Attacks FGs

[amdg]

Goddamn yall are fucking pussies.

You're a dick.
The people trying to ban the mook are pussies.
And the publishers are assholes.

[Captain Japan]

A new event at the FCCJ...

"Racism In Japan - Is Anything Changing?"
Time: 2007 Feb 26 12:00 - 14:00
Summary:
Professional Luncheon
Debito Arudou & Doudou Diene
"Racism In Japan - Is Anything Changing?"

Language:
The speech and Q & A will be in English.

Description:
Two years ago Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, submitted a report in which he said that racism in Japan is deep and profound, and that government did not recognize the depth of the problem.

In a speech at the FCCJ he suggested Japan introduce new legislation to combat discrimination. Has anything changed since then? How has Japan reacted to the fast-growing "multicultural dawn"? There are already 2 million foreign residents officially registered and some reports say that for Japan to survive, it must look to what was once -- and to many still is -- unthinkable: mass immigration.

Judging from a recent event, not much has changed. A couple of weeks ago, many convenience stores and bookstores were selling a magazine by Eichi Publishing called "Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu," which contained what many considered racist content.

We contacted the editor and the publisher of the magazine, but while the editor believed discussion was necessary, his proposed appearance at the club was vetoed by the publisher.

While the magazine has sold out -- and apparently became a collector's item -- the issue is still there. Is Japan a racist country? Is Japanese "racism" somehow "different"?

We will hear from Doudou Diene, who is back in Japan on a lecture tour hosted by the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), the Japan Federation of Bar Association, and the Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership (CAPP) of Osaka University of Economics and Law. He will be joined by human rights and anti-discrimination campaigner Debito Arudou.

To help us plan properly, please reserve in advance: at the Front Desk (3211-3161) or online (http://www.fccj.or.jp - please log in to reserve). The charge for members/guests is 1,260 yen/2,200 yen for the sandwich option, and 1,575 yen/2,500 yen for the hot lunch option, tax included. Reservations canceled less than 24 hours in advance will be charged in full. If you do not make a reservation or reserve late, your meal may vary from the scheduled menu.

Professional Activities Committee

[TFG]

I had a conversation with the British consulars personal assistant yesterday over a different matter. However, the subject of that magazine Gaijin Hanzai Ura File was brought up.
The Embassy said they are aware of the magazine, what it represents and what its purpose is and who is behind it. They also voiced their utter disgust about it.

[Captain Japan]

Mag on foreigner crimes not racist: editor
Japan Times

"Now!! Bad foreigners are devouring Japan," screams the warning, surrounded by gruesome caricatures of foreigners who look like savages, with blood red eyes and evil faces.

This is the cover of Kyogaku no Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu (Shocking Foreigner Crime: the Underground File), a special-edition magazine published by Tokyo-based Eichi that has triggered public outrage and caused Family Mart to call it discriminatory and pull it off the shelves.

The 125-page single edition is about crimes committed by non-Japanese.

The pages are filled with crime stories and photographs of alleged crimes being committed, drug deals, stabbings, gang fights and arrests -- all of them involving people from a wide range of countries. Some of the nationalities named are Iranian, Chinese, South Korean, Brazilian and Nigerian.

A spokesman for Family Mart, the main distributor, said that two days after the magazine was released at the end of January, it began receiving e-mail complaints.

According to a leaflet circulated by a group of protesters, the magazine "gives discriminatory statements and images about non-Japanese residents of Japan."

After receiving more than 10 complaints, Family Mart took a closer look at the magazine.

"When we read it, we found some expressions to be discriminatory and decided to stop selling the book," said the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

On Feb. 5, the firm ordered all its 6,800 outlets nationwide to remove the magazine from the shelves and shipped them back to Eichi. It said that of the 15,000 copies in stock -- of the 20,000 to 30,000 that had been printed -- 1,000 were sold.

Shigeki Saka, editor of the magazine, claimed Eichi did not intend to discriminate against foreigners but wanted to provide an opportunity for "discussion" about the issue....more...

Eichi-san, when are these discussions going to begin?

[sublight]

On Feb. 5, the firm ordered all its 6,800 outlets nationwide to remove the magazine from the shelves and shipped them back to Eichi. It said that of the 15,000 copies in stock -- of the 20,000 to 30,000 that had been printed -- 1,000 were sold.

Amazon Japan now offers a used copy for 4000yen. Sweet, I have a collectors' item now!

[AssKissinger]

Free Expression- 0
Fear- 1

Congratulations everybody! Hope you feel safe.

[amdg]

Free Expression- 0
Fear- 1

Congratulations everybody! Hope you feel safe.

Fair enough, but I don't think the majority of people here were calling to ban the book. So I don't know who the 'everybody' is that you are congratulating.

Speaking for myself, I was glad to have the opportunity to read it, and I support their right to publish whatever the hell they want.

Doesn't mean I have to agree with it and it doesn't mean I can't criticize it on its merits. The only downside was that I had to purchase a copy and thereby give 800 yen to a group who I wouldn't otherwise give any money to.

[AssKissinger]

It's not just their right to publish it. Instead of complaining about the stores that carry it we should be thanking them.

[TFG]

I understand the necessity of the right to publish almost anything as a true democracy. However, private individuals also have the right to not have their photographic images taken without their knowledge or consent and such images finding their way into a publication for the purpose of corporate profit.
Also, associating these individuals with illegal crime when no crime has been committed, is the problem.

This is the problem as I see it.

[Mulboyne]

Arudou writes about this affair in Japan Focus:

This report shows how non-Japanese residents in Japan (a disparate group with few things in common--not even a language) successfully pushed for their rights in a case ignored by the Japanese media. Utilizing the power of the Internet to organize a boycott of magazine outlets, "Newcomer" residents and immigrants demonstrated their strength as a consumer bloc for what is probably the first time in Japan's history.

I do wonder about this reading of the matter. Undoubtedly, Family Mart decided not to stock the magazine because of the complaints they received but I'm not sure that they were worried about the economic loss of foreigners in Japan as a market. I suspect that they were more conscious of their overseas businesses. As I recall, the first official response from Family Mart was to an email sent to their US HQ. The reply said that the magazine would be gone in a week so they already largely made the decision before foreigners started complaining directly in any numbers in the combinis in Japan.

Even that reading rules out the possibility that executives in Family Mart, when their attention was drawn to the magazine, decided for themselves that it was not appropriate for their stores. Arudou notes that one manager said "We stocked this unaware of the contents" which seems plausible. I would think their main motive for withdrawing it would be to avoid embarrassment rather than any worry about foreigners not buying enough bentos. As far as I remember, Amazon Japan seemed happy enough to keep on selling it even after they received complaints.

The publisher can hardly have been worried about losing the foreign "economic bloc" and yet they decided to withdraw the magazine. Presumably the loss of some retail distribution meant it wasn't viable any more. Perhaps they succumbed to some other pressure.

Arudou skews his analysis to see some new role for foreign spending power but it seems to me that this case was another example of gaiatsu of which there have been many over the years. Some successful and some failures. The role of the internet as a means of spreading the story was important - started by Big Daikon and carried on by Japan Probe and Debito.org - but the story didn't even get taken up much, if at all, by the biggest foreign communities in Japan - Korean and Chinese - who have more economic clout than predominantly white, english language bloggers and their readership.

[Jack]

If I recall people in here were outraged at the "censorship" when some publishing company refused to publish a story about the royal family.

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16735

But now everyone is clamouring for Family Mart to remove the anti-gaijin magazine. Which is it folks, freedom of expression or censorship? Please decide.

But I forgot, if it's anti gaijin and pro-Japanese, then censorship. If it's anti-Japanese then freedom of speech. Not to you Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi, but to all other cocksucking white folks on here.

[amdg]

Not to you Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi, but to all other cocksucking white folks on here.

You left out your most loyal ambassador - me.

[kamome]

Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi

I guarantee that none of these people are at all thrilled that you agree with them on anything.

[Jack]

I guarantee that none of these people are at all thrilled that you agree with them on anything.

Well, like the rest of the bunch you can just go fuck yourself. Which part of what I'm saying is not true? You don't agree in the way I express my thoughts then too fucking bad. My issue is with fucking loser gaijins constantly putting, far superior, Japanese people down.

Like that moron who quickly jumps in claiming that Hamasaki Ayumi has no talent. As if Eric Clapton or Madonna do have talent. Anytime someone puts down Japanese people I will step in and point that out. You live in Japan you should be gratefull and bow five times a day to the east to give thanks. Kappeesh??

[AssKissinger]

I already stated I'm against censoring the mag or discouraging stores from carrying it.

What are you so fired up for, Jack?

[American Oyaji]

If I recall people in here were outraged at the "censorship" when some publishing company refused to publish a story about the royal family.

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16735

But now everyone is clamouring for Family Mart to remove the anti-gaijin magazine. Which is it folks, freedom of expression or censorship? Please decide.

But I forgot, if it's anti gaijin and pro-Japanese, then censorship. If it's anti-Japanese then freedom of speech. Not to you Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi, but to all other cocksucking white folks on here.

Jack. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying, but I am not white.

[Greji]

Jack. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying, but I am not white.

Hey, how about that now! What color are you these days AO? I know you were green around the grills when you were having your celebate white-out!

[AssKissinger]

to all other cocksucking white folks on here.

I am not white

Dude, do your kids know you're gay?

[American Oyaji]

Dude, do your kids know you're gay?

Has your wife realized you're a faggot?

[Jack]

Jack. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying, but I am not white.

I know, which is why you are safe. An example for you why fucking white folks annoy me:

I thought that penis story is an interesting one about the Arabs so I copied that story in an email to one of the girls in my office who has this thing for Arab guys. She is white. She doesn't speak Japanese and is clueless about Japan but I told her the gist of the story comparing 4 dicks. She looks at the pictures and she says "this is wrong. The sequence should be smallest on the top left and then the larger top right" and so on... I thought fucking cocksucking ignorant stupid white bitch. She didn't ask why the sequence was right-to-left but she said the way it was presented was "'wrong". She can go fuck herself to holy eternity as I have NO respect for an ignorant bitch like that. Japanese (and she should know because Arabs too) read from right to left. But in her fucking mind that's wrong. Only what a white English person does is right. Fuck her.

[AssKissinger]

Has your wife realized you're a faggot?

Come on man, I just made that same joke. Lift your game AO.

[kamome]

I know, which is why you are safe. An example for you why fucking white folks annoy me:

I thought that penis story is an interesting one about the Arabs so I copied that story in an email to one of the girls in my office who has this thing for Arab guys. She is white. She doesn't speak Japanese and is clueless about Japan but I told her the gist of the story comparing 4 dicks. She looks at the pictures and she says "this is wrong. The sequence should be smallest on the top left and then the larger top right" and so on... I thought fucking cocksucking ignorant stupid white bitch. She didn't ask why the sequence was right-to-left but she said the way it was presented was "'wrong". She can go fuck herself to holy eternity as I have NO respect for an ignorant bitch like that. Japanese (and she should know because Arabs too) read from right to left. But in her fucking mind that's wrong. Only what a white English person does is right. Fuck her.

Jack, are you an Arab or of Arabic descent? That would explain why you freely curse white people and have repeatedly made anti-Semitic comments on this site. It's no excuse for being an asshole, though.

[canman]

Jack didn't get hit with a sexual harassment charge for showing that penis information to a bitchy white Canadian girl. You know the type that crush your balls and make life so difficult for little Jacky. Not like the lovely Japanese goddesses that wait on Jack like the little "bhutta" he is.
ps no that isn't a spelling mistake.

[Greji]

Debito reports the demise of the publisher of news of nasty gaijins!

"GAIJIN HANZAI PUBLISHER GOES BANKRUPT

This just in (thanks to Trans-Pacific Radio: Japan Probe and Fukumimi blogs report that Eichi Shuppan, publisher of the infamous GAIJIN HANZAI Magazine (Debito's ref), has gone bankrupt (and I don't mean just morally bankrupt).

=========================================
Good bye and good riddance to the publisher of racially inflammatory content. Fukumimi Blog here....

Eichi Shuppan has closed its doors and is being liquidated. It had oustanding debts of JPY2.3B (about $20 million give or take).

I'm sure people like Debito and JapanProbe will be celebrating, although the failure of the business is unrelated to the recent fuss over racist publications, and is rather due to the fact that its parent company has closed its doors and Eichi was one of the subsidiaries which was already in trouble and could not stand on its own two feet. The publishing of smut had been transferred to a different company a long time ago (Eichi seems to have retained the sales rights in that reorganization, which was due to the company being busted on pornography charges), and that was the cash cow business anyway, although this line is no doubt also feeling the heat from internet sites (many of which apparently feature many scanned images from old magazines, including those of Eichi, so I'm told.)

Addendum: The news is courtesy of Teikoku DataBank via a Nikkei Telecon subscription (no link available to the actual data regarding Eichi, but see here for an article in Japanese: =========================================

[American Oyaji]

Come on man, I just made that same joke. Lift your game AO.

AK. I am not one to make digs at people. It's not an art or skill that I have perfected or cultivated.

For the most part, I subscribe to the idea that if you don't have anything nice to say about or to someone, don't say anything.

[Greji]

For the most part, I subscribe to the idea that if you don't have anything nice to say about or to someone, don't say anything.

Hey, didn't I shoot that rabbit last hunting season?
Yeah, that's right, we had Thumper stew. Fed the whole family!

[Greji]

Originally Posted by Jack: "Not to you Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi, but to all other cocksucking white folks on here."

I just re-read your post here Jackson. By saying "all other cocksucking white folks", you are type casting our list of names as well. Could you please delete my name from your list as I am a non-bone smoker and AO should get a free pass for being a brother. I am in no position to comment on the hobbies of the other folks on the list. They might take exception at being so classed, or possibly be available for a date.

[james]

Originally Posted by Jack: "Not to you Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi, but to all other cocksucking white folks on here."

i feel like feeding a troll today..

whee! since my name isn't on that list, i guess that puts me in the trough with all the other "cocksucking white folks on here".

so jack, how is it you know not only the ethnicity of everyone on the board but also their sexual orientation? pretty amazing for someone who can barely tie his own shoes without drooling all over himself first. have you met and smoked every willing guy here or something?

i wouldn't be surprised if you're as white as casper and a closeted homosexual to boot.

[Captain Japan]

But I forgot, if it's anti gaijin and pro-Japanese, then censorship. If it's anti-Japanese then freedom of speech. Not to you Mulboyne, Taro, American Oyaji, AK, GomiGirl, GomiChild, GBoothe, Pongi, but to all other cocksucking white folks on here.

Jack, in noticing your frustration of being separated from the homeland, I propose the following: go ahead and grab a rusty samurai sword and disembowel yourself like a good Japanese and I promise - absolutely promise - to post the news in the Suicide Party Cars thread and not Dead Gaijins. Deal?

[Tsuru]

i wouldn't be surprised if you're as white as casper and a closeted homosexual to boot.

I concur.

For the rest of my Jack-retort, patrons are kindly requested to make their way to the arson thread.