Sour Strawberries Documentary Japan

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"Sour Strawberries" is a documentary on migrant workers, human right, exploitation and discrimination in Japan. It tells the story of two Nikkei-Jin workers from Peru and Brazil and three Chinese participants of the International Training Programm. It also features interviews with former Vice-Minister of Justice Kono Taro, Upper House Member Tsurunen Marutei, Union-Leader Torii Ippei, Arudo Debito, Keidanren represenative Inoue Hiroshi and the German political scientist and Japan expert Dr. Gabriele Vogt.

Next Sceening: 16.03.09 Heaven`s Door Tokio. Further Screenings:
NUGW Shinbashi Monday March 23

AITEN (an English-speaking branch of Amnesty Japan) Takadanobaba Tuesday March 24

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• debito
• uyoku
• Migration
• Roppongi
• Tokio
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[sgsilver]

I found the scene in Kabukicho problematic on a number of levels. The establishment was most likely a hostess bar or brothel, in an area teaming with similar establishments. These establishments often hire and exploit foreign women. In a documentary about the exploitation of foreign workers in Japan, wouldnt it have made more sense to focus attention on the plight of these women rather than on the men who fuel the demand for the industry which exploits them?

[bertholt4]

I think in this case it does not matter if it is a pool, a restaurant or even a nightclub - the mechanism of how discrimination works is always the same - and the night-club owners chain of causation is really prototypical.

The documentary is introductory in many points, because there is little knowledge about exploitation and migrant workers in Japan. I`m very proud of the audience it gained and the reactions in the media like "a must see" (kansaiscene).

Thanks for constructive critic.

[novajoke]

@burnstagger

Banzai!!! Thank you for your comment. Yes I've seen it first hand in the wonderful state of so called California when in fact they are run over by 3rd world mentality losers with taking public money left and right with free lucn programs, welfare, language problems, education problems, etc. etc.

"Assimilate" is the key if he/she want to live in another country....

[burnstagger]

Maybe what people are mistaking for racism is just the Japanese wanting to preserve what they. Look what flooding the USA has done - turned it into a 3rd world toilet.

[burnstagger]

Stop whinning and go back to where you came from. Civilization doesn't need hordes of barbarians overrunning it.

[trisoctehedron]

Xenophobia is natural to humans. Anyone who's read history knows this without doubt. In the USA, much agony and money have been spent since the Civil War trying to keep a lid on the antagonism between black and white people. It was all absolutely necessary, has had significant success, and has probably incidentally kept the US from becoming a more vicious empire than it is. However, a racially homogenous country like Japan can avoid all that by keeping its population that way. Seems OK to me.

[Shufei]

It's well known by others in the region that the fascination Japanese have with robots stems from a dark cause. Japanese determination to live their mythic ethnocentric state makes them too willing to use machines over people who don't fit their incestuous vision of racial hygiene. (Remember the victims of Unit 731!) The deceit they employ against workers they do manage to allow is legendary.

[432cestus80]

A Japanese citizen may not have understood the benefits supposedly he should get from his company due to his partial disability, "employees compensation", I suppose, for "injury at jobsite". A case of ignorance of the law. Adding to that issue is the "Nikkeijin" who have no equal rights compared to a japanese citizen notwithstanding the fact of a specific law found in the Japan's Law and Rights Index "Employers should give equal rights and uppotunities to foreign workers regardless of race".

[donburikaminari]

What? I don't get it?