A good example of how to deal with vendors selling the Foreigner Crime File magazine
February 14th, 2007 by James
French blogger Thomas Bertrand reports on an encounter with the the “Gaijin Ura Hanzai File” at a bookstore in his town [the above photo was taken by Thomas]:
I’m a french blogger, living in Kyoto since 4 years.
Today, I found the racist magazine in a “kumazawa syoten” store in Kyoto. As you can see on the picture, the magazine was presented on the front of the shelves…
I took the 3 magazines diplayed and talked with the shop manager.I was kind of surprised and he promised me the immediate removal of this magazine.
Kumazawa home page= http://www.kumabook.net/
Bravo, Thomas! You can read his entry about the magazine here (in French).
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At another store besides Family Mart? Or was this a week ago?
Turner:
Thomas sent me the e-mail three days ago, reporting that it occurred that day. I’m guessing that many bookstores are still selling it, and many would be willing to pull the magazine if you talked to their manager in a reasonable manner without acting like a raging gaijin. I really don’t have a big problem with bookstores carrying it as a part of their large selection, but it is a bit disgusting to see it in the very front of a display, as Thomas witnessed it.
Thanks James for keeping us aware of this and congratulations to Thomas for saying something! It may seem strange, but you guys are leading the way on this and we really need everyone to speak up at douch bag store owners who carry this.
Although they may just ’say’ they’ll take it down and then sell it again a few hours later, the effort is what counts.
Cheers for Thomas!
My local book store has also got three copies on the shelf of this magazine, I will endevour to have it removed tomorrow, how about some Japanese language tips to put my point across oneigashimasu
As a note to the above I can speak polite Japanese, but how about some phrases such I find this offensive or Would you remove this due to its content
Ginger Ninja,
Debito has reported that using this letter can be very effective:
http://www.debito.org/index.php/?p=205
Just delete the references to FamilyMart, and it should be ok.
“Debito has reported that using this letter can be very effective:
http://www.debito.org/index.php/?p=205”
an option.
Itumo otakusama de kaimono o sasette itadaiteorimasu.
ano, kono zasshi no kotonandesukedo, naiyouga, hidoku, jinsyusabetsutekide, ookuno media demo toriagerarete kono zashi wo utteiru omise ga intaanetto nankade kouhyousaretarishite ,kono zasshi wo utteiru omise ni taisuru fubai unndouga zenkokutekini hirogatteimasu. family maat ya sunkusu mo sousita kougikatsudou ni yotte sudeni toriatsukai wo yamemashita. famima ya sankusu no honbu ni tashikamete itadaitemo kekkoudesu. watashiha sono fubai unndouni sandou shiteimasu . dekireba, otakusamademo kono zasshi no toriatsukai wo soukyuni oyameninatte itadakemasenka? gokyouryoku onegaisimasu. m(_ _)m。sugoku, jinnsyusabetutekide , naiyou ga hidoku ookuno hitoga kanashindeimasu. (>_
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sono syupansyamo kaisyuu wo hajimeteiru to kiiteimasuga…..
(for some reason, I couldn’t post the part after kaomoji.)