Long time no blog...

yeah, ive been busy. been teaching at a new school for the past month (finished with that as of tomorrow). and trying to study japanese and so on and so forth.

one of the weirdest things to come out of the japan for the past month and a half is this thing:

this is the 外人犯罪裏ファイル - Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu - in english, the "Secret Foreigner Crime Files" or something to that effect. this stupidass magazine is the most blatant, racist propaganda i have seen published in a country outside of wartime. now i specify wartime because when a country is at war, it must villify the enemy at all expense to make them less than human and easier to kill, and this is much easier to do when the enemy is a different race than your side is. one need only go back as far as WWII propaganda to see the best that humanity has to offer in that department. the links i have provided are just US-JAPANESE propanda, not the really hideos Nazi crap.

if wars bring out the best in human nature as far as racism goes, then the publisher of the Secret Foreigner Crime Files must have declared his own war on foreigners in japan. trying to put this in perspective for my friends and family in the US:

if the KKK published a magazine on race relations in america, who would read it? what kind of morons would drop a few bucks down for that kind of enlightenment? maybe an even more important question is, who in their right freakin mind would PUBLISH tripe from such an organization?!?

one has to ask such things in bewilderment when you actually see a magazine like the Secret Foreigner Crime Files, because that is the kind of garbage that the magazine is pushing. along with some purposely distorted statistics and comic sections that graphically illustrate japanese people as the victims of foreign crimes, the magazine displays otherwise innocent pictures of interracial couples kissing in public with things like this in japanese:

HEY, NIGGER, GET YOUR HAND OFF THAT J GIRL’S ASS!!”
(and yes, they did actually write the word "NIGGA-" in japanese)

“YOU BITCHES THINK FOREIGNERS ARE THAT GREAT?!!”
“HEY HEY HEY, NONE OF THAT TIT RUBBING ON THE STREET!!”,
“HEY HEY HEY, GET YOUR HAND OUT OF THAT GIRL’S PUSSY IN PUBLIC!”
“THIS IS JAPAN! GO BACK TO YOUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY AND DO THAT!!"

and, my personal favorite that highlights the true insecurity of the writer of the magazine:
"WE KNOW JAPANESE GUYS ARE SMALL, BUT..."

pure lunacy. there was a threat of boycotts here started by us foreigners, it got bad press all over the world and we got this crap taken out of the convenience stores where it was being sold. it can still be found on Amazon unfortunately, and will probably continue to be sold now that it has become a collectors item. a milestone in racist history. for more on the contraversy, go to the website of Debito Arudou to get info in english and japanese.

i guess i would like to believe that a great majority of the worlds population is not a horde of xenophobic segreation loving racial purists, but seeing crap like this really makes me wonder. i guess every country has its idiots, and one idiot in this country managed to publish a magazine. at least know we know racists are not all so inbred that they cant read and write. that isnt much of a moral victory however...

ta ta
Erich von Meatleg