Japanese and Koreans invaded Asia. We apologize.

Arudou アグレッション 他

2012年05月03日 22時11分29秒 | Weblog
モード学園 TVCM 2012 「鍛える!」篇




色黒系のダンサー 

2012年のモード学園(東京・大阪・名古屋)は、
2組のアーティストとのコラボレーションにより、圧倒的な力強さを発するCMとなりました。
メッセージは、
「なりたい」を、「なる」に鍛える。
若者が社会に出て、願いを成し遂げることがいっそう困難になっているこの時代に。モード学園が実践する教育は、“鍛える”こと。「なりたい」と、ただ思うだけ、待つだけでは、理想の自分には到底、届かない。「なりたい」から抜け出して、「なる」という揺るがない意思を確立するまで、そしてその意思を体現できる実力が身に付くまで、徹底して鍛えて社会に出すのが今、必要な教育。また、本物のプロとは、心・技・体を常に鍛え続けている人であるとモード学園は考えます。

モードの化身、JONTE'。
鍛えることの大切さを、全身で表現できる唯一無二のアーティスト、JONTE'(ジョンテ)。ジャネット・ジャクソンのバックダンサーを務め、ビヨンセのワールドツアーの振付・演出を担当。そんな世界を代表するダンサー/振付師である、JONTE'が、今回のCMメッセージに賛同し、出演を快諾してくれました。ファッション、デザイン、メイク…モード学園で鍛えられる全ての分野が凝縮された出で立ち。まさにモードの化身となったJONTE'が、迷いや悩みなど、行く手を阻むものたちを蹴散らしながら、より強い自分へと鍛え上げていきます。振付は、今回のための完全オリジナルです。

新しい音楽の担い手、サカナクション。
JONTE'の華麗なダンスにさらなるパワーを与える楽曲は、サカナクション。既存の音楽ジャンルにとらわれず、音楽の可能性にチャレンジし続けている彼ら。創作に対するストイックな姿勢からも、クリエイティブ志向の若者を中心に絶大な支持を集めています。多忙を極める中でしたが、CMメッセージへ賛同していただき、世界観を共有しながら楽曲制作へ。山口一郎氏の独特の感性で歌い上げられるのは、自分を鍛えようとする若者への応援の言葉です。

JONTE
'×サカナクション、この異色の組み合わせにより、モード学園ならではのメッセージ“鍛える”を、他に類を見ない形で実現することができました。



南アジア系、アフリカ系のタレントをもっとテレビなどで活躍させてほしい。




CNN Gives Racist Immigrant Basher a Platform
Posted in Anti-Immigrant by Ryan Lenz on April 26, 2012


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As the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week concerning Arizona’s controversial immigration law, a racist patriarch of the anti-immigrant movement once again found a mainstream platform for his hate-filled, conspiracy-mongering extremism.

CNN posted a report that contrasted two perspectives on the hot-button issue: that of Phoenix police officer David Salgado, and that of Glenn Spencer, who heads the hate group American Border Patrol



日本で言えば、

Japan Times Gives A Platform to Arudo Debito, who heads the hate group, Debito org.

といったところか?



Japan Times

Eric Johnston友達




Microaggression: the new scapegoat for our ills




Where are you really from? Asian Americans and the perpetual foreigner syndrome
by Frank H. Wu


永久外国人 永遠外国人 さりげの差別




"Where are you from?" is a question I like answering.

"Where are you really from?" is a question I really hate answering.

"Where are you from?" is a question we all routinely ask one another upon meeting a new person.

"Where are you really from?" is a question some of us tend to ask others of us very selectively.

For Asian Americans, the questions frequently come paired like that. Among ourselves, we can even joke nervously about how they just about define the Asian American experience. More than anything else that unifies us, everyone with an Asian face who lives in America is afflicted b the perpetual foreigners syndrome. We are figuratively and even literally returned to Asia and ejected from America.



Often the inquisitor reacts as if I am being silly if I reply, "I was born in Cleveland, and I grew up in Detroit," or bored by a detailed chronology of my many moves around the country: "Years ago, I went to college in Baltimore; I used to practice law in San Francisco; and now I live in Washington, DC."

Sometimes she reacts as if I am obstreperous if I return the question, "And where are you really from?"

People whose own American identity is assured are perplexed when they are snubbed in this manner. They deserve to know why "where are you really from?" is so upsetting. My white friends of whom I have asked the question are amused at best and befuddled at worst, even if one of their grandparents was an immigrant or all of them once were. They deserve to know why "where are you really from?" is so upsetting to Asian Americans even if it carries no offensive connotations to them.

Like many other people of color (or a few whites who have marked accents) who share memories of such encounters, I know what the question "where are you really from?" means, even if the person asking it is oblivious and regardless of whether they are aggressive about it. Once again, I have been mistaken for a foreigner or told I cannot be a real American.

The other questions that follow in the sequence make the subtext less subtle. Assuming that I must be "really from" someplace else and not here, even pausing for the preliminary "where are you really from?" some people proceed to ask me: "How long have you been in our country?" Do you like it in our country?" When are you going back?" and "Do you have the chance to go home often?" I am asked these questions with decreasing frequency over time but still too often, and I am surprised at the contexts in which they continue to pop up.

Unfortunately, there is worse. Whenever I have had the privilege of appearing in a public forum discussing a controversial topic--and any issue worth discussing in a public forum is likely to be a controversial topic--I receive letters, phone calls, and e-mails from people who disagree vehemently with my perspective. I enjoy the 15 minutes of fame, but I am taken aback by a few of the messages. They run along the lines or, "Yeah, and what do they do in China?"

I have been told, for example, that because it would not be easy for a white person to become a Chinese citizen, it is obvious that all countries value their sovereignty. Thus, according to this reasoning, the United States is no different in making it hard for a Chinese person to become an American citizen.

When I have spoken up in favor of affirmative action for historically underrepresented minority groups that continue to face racial disparities, I received hate mail that asked questions such as whether they have affirmative action in Japan.

I am tempted to retort, "How would I know?" Or with too much cleverness for my own good, I could come back with, "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"






Here at home, many Asian Americans are familiar with those awful moments when, in a dispute over who was in line first at the cash register, where dogs can be walked, who bumped into whom, or in declining to give money to a panhandler, and so forth, a person who is white or black suddenly shouts something about "go back to where you came from" or mutters an aside meant to be overheard about "all these damn foreigners." In these instances, Asian Americans must decide whether they can and should disregard the racial tone. I find that when I respond, even if I try to reason with someone, they sometimes become implacable and the effort to engage them is futile. They insist more hotly that they are right, not racist. They were merely claiming the parking space they saw first, and even if they said, "You know, this is the way we do it in America" or asked, "How long have you been in this country, anyway?" it wasn't a veiled racial reference and I shouldn't take it as such.





During the peak of Japanese economic gains, when in 1989, the Mitsubishi conglomerate bought Rockefeller Center, politicians and pundits took it as a dire sign that the soul of America was for sale. In 1992, opponents almost blocked the sale of the Seattle Mariners baseball team to the founder of Japanese game-maker Nintendo, who wanted to save the franchise for the city and forestall its move to a larger market. In contrast to the fallout from Japan-bashing, there were no such concerns about the British and Dutch companies that owned more U.S. properties than the Japanese even during the latter's buying frenzy, nor in 1998 when the German Daimler conglomerate, makers of Mercedes Benz, merged with Chrysler, effectively taking it over. (Showing the pointlessness of asking about the nationality of international conglomerates, Daimler and Chrysler both owned part of Mitsubishi.)


企業買収 海外資本



Ozawa argued he was literally white, even more so than "the average Italian, Spaniard or Portuguese."

The Supreme Court rejected his claims without much difficulty. It reasoned that "white" and "Caucasian" were synonymous. Japanese were not white, because they were not Caucasian. Their skin color was inconsequential, because skin color was not the only test of racial identity.

Thind tried a different tactic, to no avail. Exactly as the precedent set by Ozawa suggested would be appropriate, he referred to the many taxonomies of race that had been devised by social scientists. Within the leading schemes, Asian Indians were not only Caucasian but also Aryan.



Lieutenant General John DeWitt, commander of the Western Defense, famously declared, "A Jap's a Jap ... The Japanese race is an enemy race ... It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese." He added that German Americans and Italian Americans were only dangerous in some instances, "but we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map."



人種・民族


Hate crimes against Asian Americans are a brutal form of the perpetual foreigner syndrome. The 1982 murder of Vincent Chin is only the most notorious example. The Chinese American engineer was clubbed to death in Detroit by two white autoworkers who, accusing him of being responsible for their woes, took a baseball bat to his head. The case only became more widely known when the judge sentenced the perpetrators to probation and a $3,780 fine. Numerous other cases have been recorded around the nation, with attackers such as the "dot-busters" in New Jersey who assaulted Indian immigrants and killed two in their violent spree, and others who have taken guns, knives, and fists to Asian Americans as they recall Vietnam or kung fu movies


アジア系に対するヘイトクライム






The perpetual foreigner syndrome suggests that to understand the complexities of race, we must use a paradigm that is not exclusively black and white--in literal and figurative terms, in literal terms, if "American" means "white" and "minority" means "black," then individuals who are neither white nor black end up being neither American nor minority. They are excluded altogether as foreigners who lack rights, even if they are in fact native-born Asian Americans, Latinos, or of mixed-race backgrounds



外国人の(無)権利










Anonymous Says:
May 3rd, 2012 at 1:44 pm

So, Amon, you imply, as does Gregory Clark, as does 空/Ponta, as do many “excuse-makers for racial discrimination”,


有道ブログは相変わらず卑怯だな。これは、不正なaggression だろう?
空さんがどうでるか、わからんのかな?


 
 日本人と結婚し日本人と友好をはかろうとするトニーラズロ氏の人格攻撃をし罵り指紋の消し方伝授し、不法滞在者マニュアル記事を英訳したり、民事訴訟で証拠偽造してもばれない、というコメントをしたり、日本のハーグ署名推進活動するのは結構だが、そのために日本人の子供を不法に暴力的拉致を請け負うサイトと連携して、暴力的解決をも暗示したり、外国人被告人を擁護するのは結構だが、その過程で、日本人レイプ被害者の実名を公表ーーーイギリスなら出場停止ものーーーして、不都合な議論は隠蔽して、被害者を嘘つき呼ばわりまでして、外国人被告人をかばったり、日本人について実名をあげて、名誉を毀損する危険のある事実を摘示し、多数または不特定のものが認識し得る状態においたり、、募金詐欺すんでのところで食い止めたが、はからずしも、ここまでして嘘をつく在日外国人がいるのことを露呈し、また、その後も日本人の私人の実名をあげ誹謗するコメントは公開し日本人客お断りの店を企画し>、あの変態記事waiwai推薦したり、日本人の大半は脳なしだ、日本ではゲシュタポがいる、日本では、外国人を殺しても容赦される、 日本人は絶対に信用しないし、今後もしない日本人は糞の味が好き日本人は子供だ日本では結婚すべきでもない、子供ももつべきではない!! 日本に関してでたらめをまくしたてて、日本にくるな観光客は日本にくるな日本から 外国人は出て行けfuck you などと叫び、専門書を引用しながら記事とは逆の結論を下したり、フィクションの著書を引用して根拠にしたりしならが、日本に都合の悪いようにかき立てつつも、嘘を指摘するコメントは公開阻止にし、日本がよく見えるコメントには証明を要求し、日本が悪くみえる、欧米がよく見えるコメントには嘘でも証明を要求しない()ようなブログの主催者をコラミストにかかえ、そうした手段を選ばないヘイトブログにーー多くの批判がありながらーーーニフコJapan Timesが 権威を与えているのは、罪な話である。





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WEDNESDAY, MAY 02, 2012

Can Someone Else Write This Post, Please?


Actress who won Bafta for portrayal of young offender drunkenly assaulted and racially abused taxi driver
By PAUL BENTLEY
PUBLISHED: 21:38 GMT, 2 May 2012



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138613/Lauren-Socha-Bafta-winning-actress-drunkenly-assaulted-racially-abused-taxi-driver.html#ixzz1to2VB4Fg



Mr Iqbal, a 52-year-old father of two who has driven taxis for 22 years, told how Socha called him ‘every name under the sun’ during the attack.
He said: ‘It was terrible. She called me a Paki, a dirty b******, told me to **** off back to my own country and asked what I was doing here because I was Asian.’





Get a job at my size? Fat chance!
After 160 interviews but not one job offer, Louisa says it's not her CV that’s letting her down - it's her curves
By LOUISA VERTH
PUBLISHED: 22:56 GMT, 2 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:56 GMT, 2 May 2012


デブ差別 就活


EU austerity is feeding racism, report says






"Immigration is [being] equated with insecurity, [that] irregular migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees either steal jobs or risk capsizing our welfare system, while Muslims are not able to integrate in Western societies," the survey says.

It adds that talk by mainstream politicians of reintroducing border controls in the passport-free Schengen area is beginning to give xenophobia and far-right extremism a respectable face. "Political leaders must at all costs resist pandering to prejudice and misplaced fears about the loss of 'European values,' terrorism and common criminality," it says.




French leader Nicolas Sarkozy has also complained that there are "too many immigrants" in France in his bid to woo far-right voters.

In Greece, the openly fascist Golden Dawn party is expected to win a dozen or so seats in parliament on Sunday (6 May). The group espouses claims of Greek and Aryan racial superiority and wants to landmine borders with Turkey to stop migrants.

In the Netherlands, the far-right PVV party has put up a website encouraging people to spy on and denounce eastern Europeans who work on the black market. A copy-cat website was launched in mid-April by the far-right Vlaams Belang party in Belgium and is still online.





Some vulnerable groups - such as the Roma, the largest ethnic minority in Europe - endure popular social stigma despite national and EU-level rhetoric on equal rights.

This reporter in 2010 met several Bulgarian-origin Roma families in Brussels who pretend to be Turkish in order to suffer less racism. "Many of us carry the stigma as a burden, others act against the stigma. It's more comforting to do so, in a sense," one of the contacts said.


Passing  パシング
ロマ・ジプシー



'Unleash Hell': New Al Qaeda magazine describes in detail how to start huge forest fires across the U.S..with instructions on how to make 'ember bombs'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 06:18 GMT, 3 May 2012


同時多発山火事?
テロリストというのはあの手この手だな。








Nuclear stress tests fail EU scrutiny
27.04.12








The commission and the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (Esnreg) want to see if Europe's nuclear plants can withstand the force of natural disasters, airplane crashes, fires and terrorist attacks.

その意味で原発は、どうなのだろうか?

私はエネルギーの多様性の確保、そして、軍事的戦略性の観点からも原発は有用であると考えるが、テロやら、飛行機事故、その他あらゆる観点からの危機管理は絶対必要である、と考える。

戦争にしても、原発事故、原発テロにしても、想定外ではすまされない。



Charles Kamasaki Suspects Racism in Immigration Debate


アメリカの移民に関する議論で話題になること、ラティーノの fertility refusal to assimilate criminal tendency illnessなどの話題になる、と。

2012.5.03

2012年05月03日 15時53分24秒 | Weblog
From Octomom to porno mom

May 2 2012 at 12:03pm
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Youtube
She said she’s never do a porn film, but money problems appear to have forced the hand (pun not intended) of Octomom.

Nadya Suleman, who became famous for giving birth to octuplets, claims to be in debt to the tune of up to 1-million dollars, and has filed for bankruptcy. Suleman, who has 14 children, is currently unemployed, and owes money to doctors, teachers, lawyers and a cable TV company. Her house is also set to be auctioned.

After turning down repeated offers from an adult film company to make a triple-X movie, Suleman has reportedly inked a deal to do a solo masturbation film with a internet porn company.



8つ子シングルマザーが自己破産申請「ポルノ映画に出てもいい」
2012.5.2 08:50




2012年05月02日 12:26 経済
史上最初の経済学者にして詐欺師、ジョン・ロー




貨幣というのは本質的にバブルなので、誰もがその価値を信じていれば誰もが豊かになれるが、誰も信じなくなれば価値は失われる。それは国家の信認が失われるときでもある。



Ghraib mistake? US student drinks urine to survive prison abandonment
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Published: 02 May, 2012,



DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student
“They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” Chong said.
By Sarah Grieco | Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Source: DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student | NBC San Diego


医療過誤




UK's rich increase stake in economic pie



AlJazeeraEnglish さんが 2012/04/28 に公開
The wealth of the richest people in the UK has increased compared to last year, according to British newspaper the Sunday Times.


格差





Britain 'does' austerity so the US doesn't have to
The country's experiment in austerity has provided the US with valuable information: it doesn't work.
Last Modified: 01 May 2012


経済政策



Washington, DC - A little less than two years ago, the people of the United Kingdom made an implicit deal with the people of the United States. They installed a government that committed itself to an austerity package as the best way to deal with the ongoing effects of the recession.

Rather than trying to boost demand with increased spending or lower taxes, the Conservative-led coalition government committed itself to an agenda of spending cuts and tax increases. The argument was that the financial markets would be impressed by the UK's commitment to reducing its budget deficit.



Ten-year Treasury bond rates in the United States have averaged less than 2.0 per cent in the last year, with rates in countries such as Denmark and Sweden being comparable. Japan, which has a debt-to-GDP-ratio of well over 200 per cent and continues to run large deficits, pays less than 1.0 per cent interest on its ten-year Treasury bonds. In short, austerity does not appear to have been necessary to keep interest rates low.

The UK economy does not appear to have done any better in terms of the rest of the picture. If austerity boosted business leaders' animal spirits, it is not showing up in the data.




This is all very bad news for people living in the United Kingdom. There has been no job growth since the summer of 2010 and the unemployment rate has risen from 7.7 per cent to 8.1 per cent in the most recent data. It seems certain to rise more in the months ahead. If anything, the situation is likely to worsen over the course of the year as more of the spending cuts take effect.

But the bad news for the British people can be good news for the United States. Thanks to their generous offer to experiment with austerity, people in the United States can now see more clearly than ever that austerity does not work.




だとしても、ケインズがいいのかねええ?









May 1, 2012, 08:56AM ET
Air Force leader: Some pilots want to avoid F-22

By BROCK VERGAKIS



HAMPTON, VA.

Some of the nation's 200 F-22 Raptor pilots want to be moved into other jobs because of oxygen-deficit problems with the stealth fighter, an Air Force leader said Monday

Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va., told reporters that a "very small" number of pilots have asked not to fly the fifth-generation fighter jets or to be reassigned.

"Obviously it's a very sensitive thing because we are trying to ensure that the community fully understands all that we're doing to try to get to a solution," Hostage said.

He did not provide exact figures on the number of pilots who have asked to not fly the jets and said each pilot's request would be handled individually.

Air Force officials believe the airplane is safe to fly -- Hostage noted that he'll fly soon because he won't ask a pilot to do something that he will not.



Racist thug caught on CCTV smashing up takeaway by hurling furniture and attacking staff
Yob repeatedly punched the owner in the face
Owner was told: 'Go back to your own country'
£1,500 computer was destroyed during the attack
By TED THORNHILL
PUBLISHED: 08:21 GMT, 2 May 2012



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138294/Racist-thug-caught-CCTV-smashing-takeaway-hurling-furniture-attacking-staff.html#ixzz1tlXnfhRg
A racist thug caught on camera smashing up a takeaway and attacking staff is being hunted by police.
The yob destroyed a £1,500 computer and hurled a plant and chair at staff at Eastern Eye restaurant in Dagenham, Essx.
Stunned manager, Mohammed Chowdhury, 53, warned the lout that he was being filmed on CCTV.






But the thug told him 'to go back to his country' as he repeatedly punched him in the face.
Mr Chowdhury has now released the dramatic footage in a bid to track down the brute after he ran amok on April 23.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138294/Racist-thug-caught-CCTV-smashing-takeaway-hurling-furniture-attacking-staff.html#ixzz1tlXbrz9f


22% of Americans believe world will end in their lifetime (and 10% think the apocalypse is coming this year)
One in four believe it will end in their lifetime
Only 6% of French are worried about end of the world
By CHRIS HANLON
PUBLISHED: 15:45 GMT, 2 May 2012




One in Seven (14%) Global Citizens Believe End of the World is Coming in Their Lifetime


迷信


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138449/The-end-nigh--Americans-think-world-end-year.html#ixzz1tlZSSBvl









←by a racist
Racism in America
MAY 2
Posted by lbdarling









←BY ARUDOU DEBITO, A Japanese Citizen



Racism Sells?: Ashton Kutcher Puts on Brownface For Popchips Ad (UPDATE)



Arudou Debito
I am completely flabbergasted. My May 1 Microaggressions JT article has just posted more than 1000 Facebook "Likes"! And it's still in the Top Ten at the JT. It's a record for me. I wonder if it's a record for the JT






10人がいいね!と言っています。
Brian Matuza The speed dating comparison is spot on.
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Yayoi Koizumi It's interesting that those repeat games used to happen to me too even before I left Japan 15 years ago or so - comments such as "you are so thin! what is your size?" "you are so unusual and different" "you are so smart (atama ga ii - if yo..." you are sugoi/erai ne (etc. if you are overseas)" tend to be repeatedly heard from same/different people - friends, classmates, parents, etc. - I can't think of more examples off the top of my head but there are many and this may have something to do with the fairly common communcation patterns among Japanese speakers. Yes you can definitely sleepwalk through these conversations, and it's pretty common in my experience.
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Becky Cozart Higgins I have a friend going to grad school in Seoul. He makes a game of answering the taxi questions (funny how they're the SAME questions in Korea too) as wildly and unbelievably as possible. He'll give a different story every day, sometimes c...
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Dennis Van Den Brink It's because we like what you're doing. keep it up
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Cym Camille Coffman-Mitch I fond it very interesting actually. I had never thought about it but I believe it goes on in all social and cultural environments. something i will now keep an eye open for. something i may well have done.
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Benjamin J. Schwartz Nice article.
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Patrick Mannion Great article!
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Yayoiさんをご存知ですか?Yayoiさんをご存知の場合は、友達リクエストを送信またはメッセージを送信しましょう。
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Justin Ekins I could have written that, word for word. Thank you for this research-- this progress towards a scientific answer. As for the the denier NJs; they are irritating Uncle Toms... Rest assured there are plenty of us who have the same level of c...
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25 percent of foreigners living in Tokyo left Japan temporarily after March 11 quake

Twenty five percent of foreigners living in Tokyo left the country temporarily following the March 11, 2011 disasters, according to a recent Tokyo Metropolitan Government survey.
The survey was conducted between October and November 2011 as part of the metropolitan government's efforts to re-examine the way information is delivered to foreigners residing in the capital in case of a disaster. It obtained responses from a total of 169 Tokyo-based foreigners.
According to the survey, among those who had briefly returned to their home countries following the disasters, nearly half were foreigners who have lived in Japan for less than three years, hinting at the tendency that the shorter a foreigner had lived in Tokyo, the more likely they were to leave after the disasters.
Among the most common reasons for those who had briefly left Japan were, "Strongly urged by families abroad," and "Following embassies or employers' instructions to leave temporarily."
Meanwhile, 56 percent of the respondents said they did not leave Tokyo following the disasters, while 5 percent had moved to the Kansai area in southern Japan or other places within the country.
In terms of the means foreigners used to collect information related to the disasters, 75 percent said they relied on TV broadcasts, 37 percent used the Internet, and only 7 percent read newspapers at the time.
Among the respondents, 44 percent said they used mobile phones and 28 percent used e-mail as a means to contact relatives and friends immediately after the disasters, though only 51 percent reported the attempt was successful.
Among the free answer section of the survey, some opinions stressed the need for more accurate and faster information services for foreigners, one explicitly pointing at the fact that "A panic was caused at the time due to a lack of accurate information provided to foreigners overseas."
At the same time, the survey also hinted at the need for information provided in easy Japanese, based on the results that while 76 percent of the respondents said they could understand Japanese, when asked if they could understand the language if simple phrases are used, responses increased to 85 percent.
The survey also showed that 41 percent of the respondents had never experienced earthquakes prior to moving to Japan.
May 01, 2012(Mainichi Japan)




東日本大震災:都内外国人、25%が一時帰国 母国の家族ら心配--都アンケ /東京
毎日新聞 2012年05月01日 地方版


 都内在住の外国人に東日本大震災時の行動を尋ねた都のアンケートで、25%が周囲の勧めなどで一時帰国していたことが分かった。地震の直後、家族や友人と連絡がうまく取れた人は半数にとどまり、母国の家族らの心配が大きかったことがうかがえる。
 調査は昨年10~11月、災害時の外国人への情報提供のあり方を検討する資料にするために実施。169人から回答を得た。41%は日本に住むまで地震に遭った経験がなかった。
 一時帰国の理由は「母国の家族から強く言われた」「在日大使館や職場からの指示」などが多かった。「国内滞在3年未満」が帰国者のほぼ半数を占め、滞在が短い人ほど東京を離れる傾向があった。56%は震災後も転居や帰国をせず、5%は関西などに引っ越していた。
 地震の直後は44%が携帯電話、28%がメールで家族や友人と連絡を取ろうとしたが、「うまく連絡が取れた」と答えたのは51%。震災関連情報は75%がテレビ、37%がインターネットから得ており、新聞は7%にとどまった。自由意見では「海外の外国人に正確な情報が伝わっていないため、パニックが起きた」として、的確で迅速な情報公開を求める声もあった。



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イラン攻撃、自制求める…外相がイスラエル訪問



 【エルサレム=石田浩之】玄葉外相は1日夕(日本時間同日深夜)、イスラエルのリーベルマン外相とエルサレムで会談し、核開発を続けるイランに対してイスラエルが軍事行動を起こさないよう自制を求めた

会談で玄葉氏は「軍事オペレーションはイランが核開発を進めるさらなる口実を与えるもので、国際社会に大きな混乱と緊張を引き起こす。忍耐と自制を求めたい」と述べた。

 これに対し、リーベルマン氏は「イスラエルを守ることができるのは自分たちだ」と強調した。そのうえで、「すべてのオプション(選択肢)がテーブルの上にある」と述べ、軍事行動の可能性を否定しなかった。両氏はイスラエルとパレスチナの和平交渉などについても意見交換した。

(2012年5月2日11時01分 読売新聞)