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The Recent Merging of Anti-Okinawa and Anti-Korean Hate in the Japanese Mass Media
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
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Shin Sugok is an advocate of human rights in Japan and a leader of “Norikoe Net,” an “international network to overcome hate speech and racism.” Norikoe Net's broad purview encompasses discrimination against Koreans, women, Okinawans, Burakumin, children born out of wedlock, the disabled, LGBT people, and other disadvantaged minority groups. In essence, their aim is to champion human rights in Japan as a universal value.
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1 Norikoe Net's webpage is available here.
2 Gavan McCormack and Sandi Aritza, “The Japanese State versus the People of Okinawa: Rolling Arrests and Prolonged and Punitive Detention,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Studies (January 15, 2017).
3 Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Resistant Islands (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), beginning of “Resistance” section of Chapter One.
4 Shin Sugok, “‘News Joshi’ mondai to wa nani ka,” Heeto kuraimu to shokuminchi shugi: han sabetsu to jiko kettei ken no tame ni (San Ichi Shobō, 2018) p. 135-47.
5 The broadcaster's name is Inoue Kazuhiko.
6 These are so-called netto-uyo, i.e., Japanese ultraright cyberactivists.
7 The term “black curtain” carries the sense of a mastermind who plots evil deeds, but Norikoe Net is a human rights organization, an international network aiming to overcome hate speech and racism in Japan.
8 In September 1923 six thousand Koreans were massacred in the Kanto area by Japanese vigilantes following the devastating Tokyo Earthquake of September 1st, so “genocide” is not necessarily outside the realm of the possible. Her fear may be grounded in that historical precedent. With little to no evidence, Koreans were charged with crimes such as “arson, gang rape, murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, and poisoning the public water supply.” Sonia Ryang, “The Tongue That Divided Life and Death: The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and the Massacre of Koreans,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Studies (September 3, 2007).
9 Yoshida Yoshiaki is a businessman who was born in 1941. He is on the board of trustees of the Japan Business Federation (“Keidanren”). He founded DHC in 1972. DHC began selling skin care products through direct mail in the early 1980s.
10 Song Wen-zhou's name in Chinese characters is probably 宋文洲. Born in 1963, he is a critic in the field of economics.
11 Orimoto Kazushi's name in Chinese characters is probably 折本和司.
12 Sawafuji Tōichirō is probably 澤藤統一郎, the author of “Hinomaru Kimigayo” wo kyosei shite wa naranai (People Should Not Be Forced To Salute the Hinomaru Flag or Sing “Kimigayo,” Iwanami, 2006) and the owner of the website “Article 9.”
13 “Is it OK to Go That Far?” is written with Chinese characters for “is it OK” that mean “committee,” so there is a double entendre here such that another possible translation of the name of the show would be “Go That Far Committee.” As of April 2018, Boys is no longer involved in the making of “News Girls.”
14 “Zaitokukai” is an abbreviation of “Zainichi Tokken o Yurusanai Shimin no Kai” (the Association of Citizens against the Special Privileges of the Zainichi). See the “Related Articles” above for more information about their activities.
15 Shin Sugok, “BPO kettei wo ukete,” Ryūkyū Shimpō (March 14, 2018).
16 See here.
17 “Mini base” or simply “military base” would describes the Takae site more accurately than “helipad.”
18 Chang-Ran Kim and Nick Macfie, “Shots fired at North Korea-linked group HQ in Japan,” World News, Reuters (February 23, 2018). Joseph Essertier, “Zainichi Koreans Resist Japan's Ultra-right and Mark Korea's March 1 Independence Movement,” Zoom in Korea (March 4, 2018).
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