Comments on: Another Gaijin Crime Warning

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:27:07 +0000

the more things change the more they stay the same

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:25:21 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:52:59 +0000

glad I dont have blonde hair…

By: Jaydee

Jaydee — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:55:19 +0000

HA! As a black person, I was actually thinking that…

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:47:19 +0000

Could be worse, they could have used a black person instead.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:29:57 +0000

“Sigh” is all I can say.

By: James

James — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:13:37 +0000

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.

By: Steve Schapiro

Steve Schapiro — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:07:06 +0000

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.