Comments on: Outrage Over Racist “Anti-Gaijin” Magazine

By: Tak

Tak — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:02:50 +0000

It’s a sort of universal thing now. I mean the globalizaion made wealthier people’s lifestyle almost the same regardless of where they live. At the same time, as resisting the globalization, poorer people all over the world are getting somewhat patriotic.

I’m Japanese and I live in NY now for a bit more than 10 years, but I hear people in NY criticize another group of people more often than before. Also, 10 years ago, more people in Japan used to say ‘wow, you live abroad? I wanna do that, too!’, but now they kinda sound like ‘why do you live abroad? You’re Japanese, you should live in Japan, betrayer!’

I like talking to people when I go back to my country to see how people’s opinion in general changes every time I go home. This depends on regions, class, etc, but more people certainly sound ‘ultra-nationalistic’. They want the government to be armed. They also feel being extorted by other countries. Surprisingly, lotta people told me they felt sympathy for Saddam when he was excuted and strong hatred towards Americans. Of cource, many still think ‘all the blacks and whites = american’.

I can see this change in NY, too. Many young Japanese people come to NY. Their vibes were more like ‘I came here to enjoy because I don’t like living in Japan’, but now lots of them act like NY is their colony or something.

Oh, I’ll share with you crazy signs I’ve seen at Japanese businesses. At the door of a pachinko parlor from a large korean owned Pachinko chain said ‘No chinese permitted!’ Another Pachinko parlor’s sign said’ No foreigners’

In Okinawa, I went to a club and the door said ‘Yellow and Black only. No whites!’

The funniest one, some Japanese restaurants and bars in NY, the sign says at their door, ‘Japanese only’ or ‘No Gaijin (think who’s gaijin here)’ In the hear of Manhattan, too!!.

I fear, Japan will have another war in my lifetime.

By: Anti-Gaijin « giacomo butte in tokyo

Anti-Gaijin « giacomo butte in tokyo — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:54:08 +0000

[...] Anti-Gaijin Many times I am asked if japanese are racist towards foreigner. In my experience i would say no but as in every country there are some who are. Look at this post about a anti gaijin magazine. [...]

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:35:59 +0000

I have always been irritated by Japan’s societal problems, especially their “elitist” mentality. I start to think sometimes that it would be cool to live there for a long time, maybe marry in… but then the fact that a blue-eyed, blonde haired gaijin in a wheelchair would -never- survive in Japan’s society’s current (and stubborn) condition is in makes me reel.

I’d like to see the sex crime stories translated… Why? Don’t know, but the short answer is that I watch way too much L&O:SVU for -anyone’s- good.

By: unknown

unknown — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:23:22 +0000

I’m Japanese and have been living in US for over 15 years or so.
Do you know, I noticed that Japanese are rather developing country when it comes to racisim.

I noticed now, how inmoral they are sometimes, especially comments made in TV, that I didn’t notice before when I lived in Japan. (not only to other races but against people with less phisical attraction)

They seem no ideas what “discrimination” really is, so, I’m pretty sure this publishers and readers haven’t sense of what they really means.

Using a word “nigger” and they don’t mean anything? I don’t think so. There you have it, that’s how ignorant still Japanese are when it comes to discrimination.

I feel so sorry about it, that I am Japanese too, now I see, kind scars me.

By: Idiots

Idiots — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:54:54 +0000

Alot of these comments I see are ill-thought comes off to me as stupid japanopihilles or just jackasses or something……That jackass who published is ruining the Japanese, plus Family market who even put it up for sale and then said they were going to remove it in one damn week; just providing more for the flame that the Japanese are very xenophobic and racist and think their country is oh-so-special.

By: Fairy

Fairy — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:05:15 +0000

Well, are you people going to translate these articles for us or not? I have been checking here for a month or two waiting to see what they say. Pleeeaaaaasssee????

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 May 2007 05:48:46 +0000

I love it! I`m trying to find a copy, I`d love to publish one in Australia, the only problem is it`d be bigger than the phone book! My wife`s Japanese and she`s doing hanzai all the time! Every time I get paid she robs all my money!!! But I guess I get my own back by feeling her up (occassionally). Every country has it`s racist tendencies, you just got to laugh about it and if anyone wants to make trouble just smash `em!!!

By: xarlos

xarlos — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:09:13 +0000

Can you translate page 130?
It seems to say: “Gaijin think 2+1=4″ and “Read vertically to confuse them”.

By: 英雄

英雄 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:31:21 +0000

I love this book, i plinted some picture onto t shirts. if you don’t like japan just
reave, you dont have to here. we is not foreigner. we dont like you touch our gils.

By: gman

gman — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:15:11 +0000

Just as you say Ganna Boy,,,you are not paying for a service so keep your complaints for McDonalds….I am looking forward to these follow ups too but I m sure I will live if the writers donty get time to do it