Tag Archives: Hate speech

Activists alarmed by Shinjuku ward move to restrict parks for protests

Posted on Jul 1, 2018 by William Andrews

Shinjuku ward in Tokyo revealed a plan on 27 June to reduce the number of parks that demonstrations can use from the current four to just one. The move was initiated as a move to combat hate speech rallies, which … Continue reading →

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Remembering Ryan Smith, activist and observer of Japanese social movements

Posted on Jan 27, 2018 by William Andrews

Ryan Smith passed away last month. The West Virginia native had lived in Japan since 2008 and, under the tongue-in-cheek moniker Jon Doe, documented various aspects of Japanese social movements through videos he posted on YouTube. According to his Japan … Continue reading →

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White “Japanese ultra-nationalist” joins anti-Korean hate march in Shinjuku

Posted on May 29, 2017 by William Andrews

It is part of the inherent nature of being an expatriate that you reinvent yourself in your new country of residence, whether by design or by accident. Japan is a place that seems to allow this more easily than elsewhere, … Continue reading →

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Photographers on contemporary protest and social movements in Japan

Posted on May 14, 2017 by William Andrews

In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, … Continue reading →

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Counter-protest cleans up trash (and hate speech) in Tokyo

Posted on Apr 12, 2017 by William Andrews

In the post-digital world perhaps the greatest accolade is that of “going viral”. We trawl our screens in a desperate daily search for the latest photo or video to bear that badge. One of the latest is the image of … Continue reading →

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