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Immigrants and Crime in Japan
by Saki Hirama There is a general perception that immigrants are likely to commit crime more than Japanese in Japan. However, is that right realization? It seems that the mass media in Japan deal with...
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Do foreign immigrants threaten public security?
by Chika Yamamoto When we are talking about foreign immigrants, the discussion always goes to the anxiety of increasing crime by foreigners somehow. In this case, I don’t know why but criminals are...
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Genky Stores on the Lookout for “Criminal Acts of Foreigners”
“WARNING If we find any kinds of criminal acts of foreigners, we SURELY report not only to the police but also to your workplace and your agency.” – GENKY Stores Inc (a drugstore in Kani-shi, Gifu-ken,...
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Update: After Protests, Genky Store Takes Down ‘Foreigner Crime’ Sign
After protests by local non-Japanese residents, the Genky store in Minokamo, Gifu prefecture, has taken down the signs that warned foreign customers that they were being watched as potential...
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Brazil – A Racial Paradise?
by Lee Hyeon Woo I remember watching a film about Brazil. It was a film titled Tropa De Elite, or Elite Squad. The film was about special police forces named the BOPE hunting down drug dealers in...
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Twilight of the Yakuza
by Robert Moorehead Sebastien Stein’s film, Twilight of the Yakuza, explores the decline of Japan’s organized crime syndicates. Stein says the yakuza are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the...
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Filipino hostesses in Japan: Volition or Coercion?
by Jonas Horvei According to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (2013), human trafficking can be defined as: “[t]he recruitment, transportation,...
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