Another Gaijin Crime Warning

Arudou Debito has revealed yet another sensationalist foreign crime warning, this time in the form of a flier that was placed on cars in Osaka:

The segment of the flier I have cropped reads: “THESE DAYS WHERE FOREIGN CRIME IS RISING FAST” and has a few examples of foreign crime, such as marriage fraud, passport fraud, and working illegally. Despite the fact that most foreigners who come to Japan to work illegally aren’t from countries with many blonde big-nosed westerners, they’ve chosen such a character for their flier. You can check out the whole poster at Debito’s blog.

8 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 2, 2007 at 3:02 pm

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Steve Schapiro

Maybe they’ll warn people about fake marriages between old Japanese men and young Filipino or South American women to get those women into the water business.
Or is that OK? Man, I hate illegal immigrants who take slave-wage jobs no one else will do. They’re destroying the country.
- http://www.japanprobe.com James
  
  I doubt that showing a Filipina/South American woman with an old Japanese man (aka the reality of marriage fraud in Japan) would come close to playing on fears in the way that a blonde-haired criminal marrying a Japanese woman would. If they had a flier with non-blonde-haired foreigners in the pictures it probably would still be over sensationalizing with it’s statement about rising foreign crime however, since Debito points out that national police statistics have shown a decrease in foreign crime.
Steve

“Sigh” is all I can say.
Jim

Could be worse, they could have used a black person instead.
- Jaydee
  
  HA! As a black person, I was actually thinking that…
Chris

glad I dont have blonde hair…
Evan

my school had a talk on drugs by some lions club guy this tuesday. one his gems was something to the effect of, “stay away from mafia-types, yakuza and foreigners”. nice.
while it is probably true that a higher proportion of drug use and dealing in japan is done by non-japanese, his little sermon could have been a little more carefully worded. ie. stay away from drug-dealers.
Leslie

the more things change the more they stay the same

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