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Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan is the blog of Simon Gibson, a New Zealander living in Tokyo, Japan. Focused on New Zealand, Japan, web design and other shiny things.

Amazon Supports Racism

Amazon stocks racist magazine Gaijin Hanzai FileIf you thought Google was bad enough colluding with the ruling Chinese Communist Party, then think again. Amazon have taken things one step further and are stocking a magazine riddled with lines such as “Oi Nigger!! Get your fuckin’ hands off that Japanese lady’s ass!!”

The Japanese arm of Amazon’s operations is stocking a magazine called “Gaijin Hanzai Ura File” – Foreigners Crime File. This magazine is also being stocked by companies such as 7-11 and Family Mart. Update: (11:18pm) James from Japanprobe writes that Family Mart have pulled the offending magazines. Good one Family Mart!

Other rascist slogans (via debito.org) include:

Back Page:
日本における外人犯罪件数年間47000件!!
47,000 crimes by foreigners each year!!
There then follows a ‘danger rating’ (危険度) of each country, scattered on a world map surrounded by knives, guns and syringes:
China: 14
Russia: 5
Korea: 9
Brazil: 8
Colombia: 3
Etc.
None for the USA, Canada, Australia or the whole of Europe…

Article about crimes by Iranians:
イラン人を捕まえ!!
Catch the Iranian!!

Article lamenting Tokyo’s demise into lawlessness:
不良外人暴力都市!!
City of Violent Degenerate Foreigners!!

Article about foreigners scamming Japanese for money:
毟られる日本人。『シャチョサン、ATMコッチデス』
Japanese getting conned. “Theesaway to ze ATM, Meester Managing Director”

Feature of foreign guys picking up Japanese women (What this has to do with ‘crime’ is unclear)
YELLOW CAB REAL STREET PHOTO
お前らそんなに外人がイイのかよ!!
You sluts really think foreign guys are so great, huh!!
そりゃあ日本人は小さいけど。。
We know Japanese guys are small, but..

Picture of black guy touching a J.girls ass in Shibuya (obviously consensual too)
おいニガー!!日本婦女子のケツさわってんじゃねえ!!
Oi Nigger!! Get your fuckin’ hands off that Japanese lady’s ass!!
(… yes. It really does say ニガー)

Picture of dark-haired foreigner kissing J.girl in Shibuya (again, obviously consensual)
ここは日本なんだよ!てめえの国に帰ってやりな!
This is Japan! Go back to your own fuckin’ country and do that!

Picture of foreigner with hands down a J.girls knickers in Shibuya (definitely consensual)
チョット、チョットチョット!路上で手マンはやめてくれる?
Woah! Woah! Woah! Would you stop fingering a girls pussy in the street, OK?

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Sad to think that this kind of thing happens in this day and age. And even sadder to see a corporation like Amazon condoning such behaviour.

Nova – No Vacation but free Pot!

Bush Cocaine - from seanfinnerty.comLots of jokes go around about Nova and its fine bunch of hardworking gogetters when you live in Japan. Nova is one of the big four English teaching companies here in Japan a Japanese company that combines TEFOL with a McDonalds management style that has been pretty successful despite some over zealous expansion a few years ago. Which is another story.

According to the Mainichi Newspaper, 7 Nova instructors have been arrested for possession of pot and cocaine. While one imagines it could possibly make their lessons about more on edge, a bit more out there, this is the kind of thing that doesn’t go down well in Japan. Despite hemp having been an important part of the pre-American occupation economy, today the subject is seriously taboo.

Here is a link to the original 7 NOVA teachers arrested for possessing cannabis, cocaine story.

4 Hang on Christmas Day in Japan

Hanging in Japan In an extremely barbaric and anachronistic act, four people were executed by hanging in Japan yesterday. Two of the four hung were in their mid to late seventies, one was 64 , and the last to swing was 44. All were convicted murderers.

While I wouldn’t wish to be seen to be condoning such acts, the executions, and the way that they were carried out strike me as being particularly inhumane. I have never seen any evidence that would support the argument that capital punishment is an effective deterrent and I believe that the possibility of mistakenly executing an innocent person make the whole process a no-brainer.

The executions were carried out without warning so that the families of the deceased were unable to visit and say their last goodbyes to their kin.

Capital punishment is a simple answer to a complex problem. An easy solution that allows politicians to appear to be harsh on crime without dealing with any of the underlying issues which may lead to such acts in the first place.

Globally 88 countries, including the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Turkey and Mexico no longer impose the death penalty. Japan, along with North Korea, Myanmar, the United States of America, Sudan, China, Iran among others continue
this medieval practice – truly an “axis of evil”.

Story source: The Japan Times.

Picture source: Gathering Darkness 

Four sent to the gallows

Death penalty foes slam Christmas Day hangings

By JUN HONGO

The Justice Ministry sent four death row inmates to the gallows Monday, inflaming lawmakers and protesters over the first executions to be carried out in 15 months. [Read more]

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