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Kenji> This shows a typical recognition of citizenship in Japan. Most of
Kenji> Japanese citizens are black-or-brown-eyed and have black-or-brown
Kenji> hair. Quite a lot of people here misunderstand that your parents have
Kenji> to be Japanese if you are Japanese. The idea of immigration itself is
Kenji> still considered foreign here because of an illusion that Japan
Kenji> consists of one ethnic group, which has not been dead yet since WWII.

My wife has a uncle and a lot of cousins living here in Japan (They were
originally from Taiwan). Someday I wonder when I asked why they hide
their identity (about being Taiwanese. They have Japanese names,
japanese nationality,etc.). I was surprised how her uncle was afraid
about some japanese finding out that he is taiwanese. He said:"No..
No.. The japanese are going to put fire in my shop, in my house.."
Of course, I didn't think that, but probably that old man had his
psychological reasons to think about that. I wonder why the japanese
say "there's no immigration here" and there are about 1 million Japanese-
Koreans and some hundred of thousand of chinese/taiwanese living here
even before the WWII. (I'm not sure about the numbers... :-) )

Their adaption was the saddest one: "They quitted their identity, they
hide themselves, They lost their language and their culture, they didn't
have basic rights for a long time". Sometimes, I wonder if this is not
the kind of adaptation that the japanese society expects about the
foreigners...

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Kenji> Another discriminative action of our government to non-Japanese
Kenji> residents - why not they force us to keep ID cards? :)

good question...:-) 


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