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Parent comment said "restrictions" on ownership by foreigners, not "laws". The "restrictions" are semi-informal, barriers put in place as needed, in the form of
by derefr 5y ago
Parent comment said "restrictions" on ownership by foreigners, not "laws". The "restrictions" are semi-informal, barriers put in place as needed, in the form of a bunch of extra costly-to-satisfy red tape that isn't usually insisted upon, but which becomes a "must have" if you're someone the local Japanese-nationalist NIMBYs don't want living there.
(I would note that white people aren't likely to be hardest-hit by these "restrictions." Consider which ethnic groups an elderly Japanese person would remember directly fighting against in a previous war. Those same elderly Japanese people now form the inaka's governments, so AFAICT those same ethnic groups are most resisted.)
- hallarempt 5y agoThe second world war ended 75 years ago. There aren't that many people still alive who actually _fought directly_ in that war. Not even in notoriously long-lived Japan.
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- derefr 5y agoTo clarify, by "directly fighting against" I meant "there were battles in which Japanese forces actually engaged [other country]'s forces" rather than just "Japan was in one big alliance and [other country] was in an opposed big alliance." That's the specific set of countries Japan holds higher levels of lingering xenophobia toward. You're right, in that the people holding grudges today aren't likely to have directly experienced these events, but more likely are those who saw their fathers/brothers shipped to the front and never return, and so who hold a vague-but-strong grudge against whatever nebulous enemy the Japanese propaganda machine represented as being on the other side of those particular battles. (Sadly, this can be a stronger foundation for xenophobia than actually having fought an enemy corps-a-corps, as these folks have never actually been exposed to the experience of seeing enemy soldiers hurting/dying, grieving, wishing they weren't at the front, and just generally being human.)
- oblio 5y agohttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/18/national/number-people-aged-90-older-tops-2-million-first-time-japan/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/18/national/number... You were saying? 2+ million 90 year olds in Japan. Maybe not old enough to have fought in the war, but definitely old enough to remember the bombings, for example.
- freeopinion 5y ago> Those same elderly Japanese people now form the inaka's governments. Not impossible, but quite unlikely.
- Jaepa 5y agoAs clarification, do you mean as Americans (a la WW2), or Chinese/Korean (a la Second Sino-Japanese War), or both?
- Qworg 5y agoThe latter IIRC - up until recently, if you had 1/128th Korean ancestry or more, you were disenfranchised.
- winter_blue 5y ago> up until recently, if you had 1/128th Korean ancestry or more, you were disenfranchised. Do you have a reference for this?
- meristohm 5y agoMy anecdata isn’t so specific, and supports the bias of the claim: In the early 2000s I spent a cumulative ten months out so bicycling along Japan, attending graduate school, and being well-cared-for by strangers (I’m a male from the US with Western European ancestors). Several hosts who had ancestors from the mainland (Korea, China) said life in Japan was the more difficult for it.
- legerdemain 5y agoNot specifically about 1/128, but there's plenty of reading about discrimination against masses of Koreans abducted and pressed into labor by Japan during WW2, basically ever since WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan#Integration_into_Japanese_society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan#Integration_i...
- Qworg 5y agohttps://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/koreans_in_japan https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/koreans_in_japan They don't speak to the particular law, but they are speaking of the patrilinear transmission of Japanese-ness. I'll keep digging - my source was a Zainichi family in Japan in 2004.