Embedded Racism by Arudou Debito;

Author:Arudou, Debito;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

85. As the AP reports, Wajin blood conceits were fundamental to these visa regimes: “In the early 1990s, Tokyo relaxed its relatively tight immigration laws to allow special entry permits for foreigners of Japanese ancestry in South America to make up for a labor shortage at this nation’s then-booming factories. They took the so-called ‘three-K’ jobs [which] Japanese had previously shunned. Before their arrival, many such jobs had gone to Iranians and Chinese. But the government . . . was eager to find a labor pool it felt would more easily adapt to Japanese society, said [Nishiyama Iwao, of the Association of Nikkei & Japanese Abroad, a government-backed organization that connects people of Japanese ancestry]. So by virtue of their background, these foreigners of Japanese descent . . . were offered special visa status. ‘They may speak some Japanese, and have a Japanese way of thinking,’ Nishiyama said. ‘They have Japanese blood, and they work hard.’” See “Japan government gives cash for jobless foreigners of Japanese ancestry to go home.” Associated Press, April 1, 2009.

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