The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner

That may not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people but the blog , coupled with the anger over the ending of the waiwai column by some gaijin , may be construed as “typical” behavior of gaijin people, or reflecting the intention why they are here in Japan, which in turn may keep some J women from staying away from gaijin.

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/category/japanese-smut-portal/

This appears at the bottom of each story

“Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.”

Really? Who are these “each reporters”? I don’t get it.

Sky, take a look at this blog post that was on Japan Probe a few days ago. This is the witch hunt I’m talking about:

http://blog.livedoor.jp/tonchamon/archives/51964276.html

The point is not tabloid and porn should not be published in Japan—I am opposed to banning them— the point is they should be placed in proper place, and they should be represented as reflecting pervert Japanese magazines rather than reflecting reality of Japanese society and Japanese people in general. Mainich failed to do that;in addition, the translator rewrote the original texts to his favor. I think people are angry about that.

This is not credible without proof.

What’s your point?

Mainichi = “anti-Japan Korean propaganda”
Asahi = “communist”
Sankei = “right-wing warmonger, Imperial Army nostalgic”

(please contribute to the newspaper bashing based in prejudice!)

Your political beliefs do not justify censoring any media. I don’t call for banning the Yomimuri.

(Or not, I love them tabloids.)

Just imagne, one of the quality paper company in a catholic nation, meta-tagging a key word “pervert” with “Pope” for 9 years, would you say who freaking cares?

I’m from a Catholic country and, believe me, VERY FEW PEOPLE would care. Actually, fewer people know what’s an HTML meta-tag. Besides, it’s not the same thing. The Pope is not the “king” of any Catholic country besides the Vatican. And there are a lot of pervert paedophile Catholic priests out there. And the Church’s policy is to hide it (cfr. Crimen sollicitationis).

I am Japanse, and a mother of 2 year-old son.

This is not credible without proof.

if you do not have decent understanding of deeper Japanese social issues, you won’t be able to understand our anger just like the comment above “who freaking cares!”

If the people you’re talking to couldn’t possibly understand your anger (no matter how much you explain it), then what are you trying to do?

Protest is the BEST way to defend ourselves and inform the issue to the people who don’t know about it, that’s for sure.

Agreed. Make your voice heard. I wish more people did.

Mainichi has been recognized as one of the top “quality anti-Japan newspaper” as well as Asahi Shimbun on the web.

By whom? Where? An objective third party must make such a decision. Let’s see the evidence.

Mainichi had meta-tagged “hentai” with the articles about Royal familiy. Just imagne, one of the quality paper company in a catholic nation, meta-tagging a key word “pervert” with “Pope” for 9 years, would you say who freaking cares?

Personally, yes. What’s your point? Meta keyword tags are irrelevant to SEO and irrelevant to the issue at hand.

Who decides the metatag keywords?
Of course, Mainich the executives decide them.

Really? You honestly think executives have that kind of time? You think they pay that much attention to websites? If you want to assert that Mainichi executives chose to put the word ‘hentai’ in the meta tags, you better bring some solid proof of that to the argument.

The Mainichi is certainly guilty of publishing articles in poor taste, and having horrendous PR management. To say the executives were stuffing keywords into a meta tag borders on the absurd. If you want to show the world your point of view, it has to make at least some sense. Or are you trying to make the anti-Mainichi people look bad? It’s all too confusing.

You mention that Mainichi is an anti-Japan newspaper, but can you please include links to articles that you consider anti-Japan – that don’t include WaiWai?

I don’t think anyone has a problem with holding the Mainichi accountable for publishing the WaiWai articles. I agree that the material was inappropriate, but indifference towards the articles stems from the fact that the articles were copies of tabloid articles. Even if the articles were severely altered the tabloid concept still doesn’t change much. Some people read them because they enjoyed reading trashy articles about Japan, and some people didn’t waste their time reading them because the articles were basically garbage.

I think it’s great that protests are being held and that sponsors are being contacted to remove affliation with the website – this is the voice of the Japanese consumer in action. Boycotts work really well in these situations.

The problem I see with the 2-chan response is the “witchhunt”-like approach to singling out each reporter to increase the severity of punishments. Posting personal information and sending death threats seems pretty irresponsible, first of all. Second, it’s great to voice your displeasure with the Mainichi, but the addition of right wingers brings an unfortunate tone to the protests that isn’t necessary to get action taken against Mainichi.

As for the meta-tags, this is definitely something that needs to be brought up with management at Mainichi, but your comment about the Pope is irrelevant to the situation. It’s obvious that Mainichi is trying to increase hits to their website, i.e. increase funds coming in from advertising. I might be wrong, but from my understanding they were meta-tagging all pages with these tags, not just specific ones. Also, and not that it really matters, but meta-tags haven’t been useful since the 90s. Google’s search robots tend to avoid indexing meta tags because they were rampantly abused during the .com boom. The Mainichi list of meta tags shows me they were trying to get hits to their page by foreigners – these tags are definitely searches that are performed by people outside of Japan. There is no connection to the imperial family that I can see, but this is definitely something the right wingers are going to try to emphasize.

http://propaganda-buster.blogspot.com/2008/07/waiwai-tabloid-truth-about-sex-in-japan.html

Just a quick question:

A lot of Japanese like joke.

How do you define “a lot”? What percentage of the population would “a lot” be and how would they break down, demographically? And, do you have links to some peer-reviewed research showing us that “a lot of Japanese like joke (sic)”? I think we need to see some proof of that claim.

Do you like jokes? How do you define “joke”?

I think there’s some background information we need before accepting the first premise.

It looks like you like jokes, I was just wondering.

Japanese talks about a Japanese joke to the Japanese.
No problem. A lot of Japanese like joke.

African American calls African American. “Hey! Niger!”
No problem. A lot of African American like joke.

Some Caucasians call African American. “Hey! Niger!”
No problem??
It repeats. No problem??

African people, Hispanic people, Asian people, And, a lot of people who love justice.
Please help the Japanese.
A lot of Japanese are fighting with the racist.

　United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

1. All propaganda and organizations based on ideas or theories of the superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin with a view to justifying or promoting racial discrimination in any form shall be severely condemned.

2. All incitement to or acts of violence, whether by individuals or organizations against any race or group of persons of another colour or ethnic origin shall be considered an offence against society and punishable under law.

3. In order to put into effect the purposes and principles of the present Declaration, all States shall take immediate and
positive measures, including legislative and other measures, to prosecute and/or outlaw organizations which promote or incite
to racial discrimination, or incite to or use violence for purposes of discrimination based on race, colour or ethnic origin.

Porn appears on rugby programme

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/also_in_the_news/7493256.stm
They look like people who are angry about the people who are angry
about the broadcast.

There are several valid criticisms of WaiWai, like how they embellished and rewrote articles’ translations, had stories from both the more reliable tabloids and the totally unreliable crap tabloids that make stuff up (and didn’t bother to differentiate between the two), etc. It’s the loud, hardcore types on both sides that I dislike, because they are using this as an excuse to act like doinks.

The term Streisand effect originally referred to a 2003 incident in which Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$50 million in an attempt to have the aerial photo of her house removed from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs, citing privacy concerns. Adelman claims he was photographing beachfront property to document coastal erosion as part of the California Coastal Records Project. Paul Rogers of the San Jose Mercury News later noted that the picture of Streisand’s house was popular on the Internet.

The problem with this is that a lot of viewers will probably be more interested in these Waiwai articles than actually being supportive of the 2chans that are against them.

That is exactly what I thought.
I can understand the claim that the video for pro-whaling should be translated into English but I don’t understand why they want people around the world to pay attention to the articles they say are disgusting. Do they want people around to bash Mainichi?—people will just have fun reading the trashy article and watching the angry 2 channellers.
And it is a clumsy tactics. One of their claims was that Mainich was spreading the prejudice all over the world through WaiWai. They are spreading the prejudice indirectly by reproducing the articles albeit in the form of the protest.

The problem with this is that a lot of viewers will probably be more interested in these Waiwai articles than actually being supportive of the 2chans that are against them.

As, for Stippy, they are purposely being provocative. I think most readers of Waiwai understood that it was a tabloid, and even though it was garbage and probably shouldn’t have been on Mainichi’s website in the first place, the fact that it was forcibly taken down was seen as an affront on foreigners living in Japan by some people. So now you’ve got two camps – the 2chans/right wingers who think the column and columnists are anti-Japanese and racist, and you have the people who could care less about Waiwai but are posting the articles again because they believe the 2chans/right wingers are being anti-foreigner and racist and they want to spite them.

I suspect this issue wouldn’t have been so blown out of proportion if it was ended after the punishments by Mainichi, but now both sides are being stupid and taking everything personally *because* it continues.

Mainichi had previously announced that it had punished several employees it deemed responsible for the WaiWai scandal, but that did little to reduce the anger on 2-channel and the blogosphere.

As a punishment, Managing Director and Digital Media Division Executive Supervisor, Yutaka Asahina, was ordered to return 10 percent of his directors compensation for one month. However, at the same time, he was promoted President of the Mainichi Shimbun Corporation. That’s what made many Japanese angry.

Because many of those internet users did not trust Mainichi’s internal investigation, the newspaper now seems to have consulted a third-party organization.

Previous announcement from Mainichi already mentioned that it will consult a third-party organization. Scroll down the Mainichi’s WaiWai page to find the previous announcement. It also has e-mail address and fax number of the third party organization, Open Newspaper Committee. The e-mail address and the fax number of the committee has been revealed to be Mainichi’s one. Also, that committee is not a newly-organized one but it has been serving for Mainichi since several years ago. Previous activity of the committee showed that the members of the committee are essentially supporters of Mainichi. This also made many Japanese angry.

People on 2ch are collecting texts of WaiWai articles to reveal how original Japanese articles were changed and modified when they were rewritten for WaiWai. The texts in Stippy will help them.

Personally, I liked an WaiWai article that described the history of panty peeping culture of Japanese males. I liked that article so much that I once linked it on occidentalism when Matt posted there an article about japanese pervert. If someone on Stippy has the text, I hope it to be uploaded on Stippy, so I can read it again.

Happy to see a bunch of lies about gaijin as crimnals?
Unhappy in that something so racist was published in Japan?
Crazed that Jpaanese racism is publicized in English, whereas they had no problem when it was in Japanese?

I think their tiny brains will explode.

Seriously though, who gets this worked up over apparently (I’ve never bothered with WaiWai) terribly written pulp?

For Spagetti Monster’s sake, what a ridiculous overreaction…

No such thing as bad publicity they say.