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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An important book that belongs in the curriculum of courses on civil rightsBy Don MacLarenDebito Arudou's tenth anniversary edition of "Japanese Only" is a book that belongs in the curriculum of courses on civil rights. Though Japanese racial discrimination is not as well known as the history of racism in the US or Europe, it is just as prevalent - if not more so.In this updated version of his book, Arudou tells the story of a lawsuit he and some friends engineered against hot springs in Otaru, Hokkaido that refused entry to foreigners and the "foreign-looking." He meticulously documents court transcripts, emails, conversations and news stories. Though it is a disturbing story, I believe it is uplifting in the end - because we see that someone has the courage, tenacity and intelligence to take on injustice and make a mark, even though he doesn't completely win in the courts. (His case against the city of Otaru, Hokkaido went all the way to the Supreme Court of Japan.)We see the many difficulties he dealt with in his pursuit of justice, such as infighting among those of his activist group, hate mail and even one letter to him that states, "WE WILL KILL YOUR KIDS." These are things that would have made many give up the fight. Arudou, however, seems to have been mentally prepared for all this, and prevails in the end, I think, by simply telling his story.That being said, Japan still has a long way to go before it truly embraces the foreigners and the foreign-looking (Arudou is a naturalized Japanese citizen, but a Caucasian), and he articulates this sad state of affairs within a new conclusion at the end of the book.I salute Arudou for writing this important work and for paving the way for those who wish to partake of the good things Japan has to offer, including the Japanese custom of bathing in hot springs. I believe you will see that we owe him a debt of gratitude for his activism after you have finished the 2013 edition of "Japanese Only."Don MacLaren6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Important tale in shaky formatBy Count ZeroDebito Arudo, a naturalized Japanese hailing originally from The States, is a well-known civil rights activist in Japan. In 2002 he decided to sue a hot spring business for refusing him entry on the basis of his appearance, and the city of Otaru for failing to pass laws that would make such practices illegal. The story is an intriguing one, tied to a wider discourse on Japan's slowly-dawning awareness of its heterogeneous nature, and the nascent call for fair and equal treatment from minority and marginalised groups in Japanese society. Arudo is a vocal and tireless campaigner, somewhat polemical in the style of Michael Moore, who shows vision and sensitivity in the way he raises important issues and keeps them in the public gaze. The tale of the Otaru Hot Springs case is one no foreigner living long-term in Japan can ignore, and should be common knowledge to all Japan-interested commentators worldwide.While the book is a valuable documenting of the case, the format is regrettably turgid. Arudo seems driven to record all minutiae of the event in print. As such we are subjected to detailed exchanges from online mailing lists, telephone calls related as if verbatim, and newspaper reports providing information read on the previous page but in a different setting. Use of paraphrase, rigid editing, and a third party telling the story in detached narrative would make this tale much more compelling. A personal feud with Tony Laszlo, petty and bizarre as all such feuds are, is presented in mind-numbing detail. It should have been relayed as a paragraph, or one page at most. Quite simply, the 407 pages could be cut to half without losing any of the emotional or social resonance of the tale.As off- putting as the length and format is, once started the book is fairly easy to skim through without missing out on the facts. The story is interesting enough to overcome the format. Arudo also deserves the recognition and income that your purchase of the book will provide, for his pioneering, indeed brave, stance in an apathetic and often hostile environment.I have no doubt this tale will be re-told at some point in more attractive prose. For the moment, Japanese Only is the record by default, and therefore should not be missed.

If you saw signs up in public places saying "No Coloreds", what would you do? See them as relics of a bygone era, a la US Segregation or South African Apartheid? Not in Japan, where even today "Japanese Only" signs, excluding people who look "foreign", may be found nationwide, thanks to fear and opportunism arising from Japan's internationalization and economic decline.JAPANESE ONLY is the definitive account of the Otaru Onsens Case, where public bathhouses in Otaru City, Hokkaido, put up "no foreigners allowed" signs to refuse entry to Russian sailors, and in the process denied service to Japanese. One of Japan's most studied postwar court cases on racial discrimination, this case went all the way to Japan's Supreme Court, and called into question the willingness of the Japanese judiciary to enforce Japan's Constitution. Written by one of the plaintiffs to the lawsuit, a bilingual naturalized citizen who has lived in Japan for 25 years, this highly-readable first-person account chronologically charts the story behind the case and the surrounding debate in Japanese media between 1999 and 2005. The author uncovers a side of Japanese society that many Japanese and scholars of Japan would rather not discuss: How the social determination of "Japanese" inevitably leads to racism. How Japan, despite international treaties and even its own constitutional provisions, remains the only modern, developed country without any form of a law against racial discrimination, resulting in situations where Japanese are refused service at bathhouses, restaurants, stores, apartments, hotels, schools, even hospitals, simply for looking too "foreign". How Japan officially denies the existence of racial discrimination in Japan (as its homogeneous society allegedly contains no minorities), until the Sapporo District Court rules otherwise with Otaru Onsens.JAPANESE ONLY also charts the arc of a public debate that reached extremes of xenophobia: Where fear campaigns against "foreign crime" and "illegal foreigners" sponsored by the government were used to justify exclusionism. Where outright acts of discrimination, once dismissed as mere "cultural misunderstandings", were then used as a means to "protect Japanese" from "scary, unhygienic, criminal foreigners" and led to the normalization of racialized hate speech. Where even resident foreigners turned on themselves, including Japan Times columnist Gregory Clark's repeated diatribes against "bathhouse fanatics", and future "My Darling is a Foreigner" manga star Tony Laszlo's opportunistic use of activism to promote his own agenda at the expense of the cause. Where the plaintiffs stay the course despite enormous public pressure to drop the lawsuit (including death threats), and do so at great personal risk and sacrifice. Remaining in print since its first publication in 2003, JAPANESE ONLY remains a testament to the dark side of race relations in Japan, and contains a taut story of courage and perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.Now for the first time in ebook format, this Tenth Anniversary Edition in English offers a new Introduction and Postscript by the author, updating the reader on what has changed, what work remains to be done, and how Japan in fact is reverse-engineering itself to become more insular and xenophobic in the 2010s. Called "a reasoned and spirited denunciation of national prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry" (Donald Richie, legendary Japanologist), "an excellent account of a struggle against prejudice and racial discrimination" (Jeff Kingston, Japan Times), and "the book of reference on the subject for decades to come and should be required reading for anyone studying social protest" (Robert Whiting, author of You've Gotta Have Wa), JAPANESE ONLY is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Japan's future direction in the world and its latent attitudes towards outsiders.More reviews at http://www.debito.org/japaneseonly.html

From the Inside FlapIf you saw signs up in public places saying "No Coloreds", what would you do? See them as relics of a bygone era, a la US Segregation or South American Apartheid? Not so in Japan, where today "Japanese Only" signs, excluding people who "look foreign", are proliferating nationwide -- thanks to fear and opportunism arising form Japan's inevitable internationalization. Naturalized Japanese citizen ARUDOU Debito, formerly Dave Aldwinckle, offers this first-person narrative account of his experiences dealing with exclusionary onsens bathhouses in Otaru City, Hokkaido, Japan. As the case transforms from an international issue into a domestic policy push, he meticulously charts the obstacles -- interpersonal, ideological, journalistic, governmental, and judicial -- which he and his friends encounter in their quest for justice and equal protection of the law.Instructive to those interested in improving their lot as residents of a foreign country, JAPANESE ONLY is also a non-academic read for people with even a passing interest in Japan, or in human rights and social movements in the age of the Internet.This book is also available in Japanese as "Japaniizu Onrii: Otaru Onsen Nyuuyoku Kyohi Mondai to Jinshu Sabetsu" (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten Inc. 2003, revised 2006)From the Back Cover"A reasoned and spirited denunciation of national prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry. It's not that the Japanese have all that much more of it than anyone else, but that they lack an interface to fight it. This lively accounting will help them find it." -- Donald Richie, legendary Japanologist."An important, trailblazing work... The detailed descriptions of how the opaque machinery of Japanese government bureaucracy and its legal systems are in themselves worth the price of admission... A gripping tale of one man's pursuit of justice and equal treatment in a foreign land, and on the other, an engaging primer on how to fight city hall in Japan... Required reading for anyone studying social protest." -- Robert Whiting, author, "The Meaning of Ichiro", "You've Gotta Have Wa", and "Tokyo Underworld"."A powerful, poignant, and path-breaking docu-narrative." -- Ivan Hall, author, "Cartels of the Mind" and "Bamboozled"."Perhaps a decade or so from now, the events in this book will be remembered merely as a curiosity; or perhaps not. But whether his efforts succeed or fail, no one can fault Mr. Arudou for trying to convince people of the evils of discrimination. Here, in his own words, he tells why it matters; and one cannot help but be moved by them." -- Mark Schreiber, author, "The Dark Side: Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals.""Discrimination in Japan is deep and profound... I will propose that in Japan... national legislation should be adopted clearly against racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia." -- Doudou Diene, United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance."This copious record of a social movement provides an illuminating window on how people and institutions can influence human-rights practices, and is an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary Japan that deserves a wide audience." -- Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times.About the AuthorARUDOU Debito was born in 1965 and raised as Dave Aldwinckle in Geneva, New York, USA. A graduate of Cornell University and theUniversity of California, San Diego, Debito first came to Japan in 1986knowing nothing at all about the place. He was a quick study. By 2000he had become fluent enough in Japanese to receive Japanese citizenship-- not easy in a society chary of assimilating (or even dealing with)foreigners.A prolific writer, Debito found the Internet asuitable avenue for his energies, creating a bilingual website(debito.org) in 1996 to archive his essays and information sites. Hiswritings soon attracted attention from domestic activist groups, theinternational and vernacular media, and fellow foreign residents wholikewise do not consider themselves "guests" in Japan. That led to thestory that unfolds within JAPANESE ONLY.

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