#Japanese Immigrants

[dailyworldecho]

[biglisbonnews]

The legacy of a Japanese American family's variety store When president Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, over 100,00 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers, far from the West Coast. In most cases the farms, homes and businesses they were forced to leave were lost or taken over. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/03/21/the-legacy-of-a-japanese-american-familys-variety-store.html

[lgbtally4ever]

If you reply to my posts, I’m going to assume you, too, are a fan of BL, and/or a proponent for gay rights, and/or a Liberal, who believes in equality for everyone.

MAGA: KEEP YOUR CULT-BASED DELUSIONS TO YOURSELF

[thirrith]

草（中日雙語）

should i make this hat that just reads a string of expletives against a serene green background or

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Zainichi, which literally means “residing in Japan”, is the name given to ethnic Koreans who immigrated to Japan post-war.

Although Koreans in Japan prior to World War II suffered racial discrimination and economic exploitation, the Japanese authorities nonetheless counted ethnic Koreans as Japanese nationals and sought to fully assimilate Koreans into Japanese society through Japanese education and the promotion of intermarriage. Following the war, however, the Japanese government defined ethnic Koreans as foreigners, no longer recognizing them as Japanese nationals. The use of the term Zainichi, or "residing in Japan" reflected the overall expectation that Koreans were living in Japan on a temporary basis and would soon return to Korea. By December 1945, Koreans lost their voting rights. In 1947, the Alien Registration Law consigned ethnic Koreans to alien status. The 1950 Nationality Law stripped Zainichi children with Japanese mothers of their Japanese nationality; only children with Japanese fathers would be allowed to keep their Japanese citizenship.

Read more about Koreans in Japan:

[supercantaloupe]

oh since it's the 83rd anniversary of the pearl harbor attack that means it's also the 84th anniversary of my grandpa arriving in america via pearl harbor

[brazilspill]

That Japan chose Brazil of all places to be THE go-to destination to immigrate to in the 20th century is so wild to me.

Like, the only cultural crossover we had was that we both eat rice with everything.

Also, this is my favourite "Move to Brazil" Japanese propaganda poster of all time:

I love how the woman's pointing to Brazil like the writing on the highlighted country isn't enough for people to figure out which country they should be moving to.

[burinazar]

Oh, wait, wait, ok, I can tell tumblr my news now.

I was accepted into the JET Program and will be moving to Japan for one year starting in late summer to teach English. : )

I don't know how many other applicants have ever had either of my specific application 'angles'. I think they were both pretty weird, but also very, very me, and I'm pleasantly surprised that they seemed to have worked, going off both by the acceptance and the very positive and warm reactions I got during the interview I had. These were:

Science/scicomm/museum background + implying mutual interest in and love of like insects and sea life could be an avenue of intercultural connection and exchange

India and Japan have always struck me as weirdly similar in ways nobody seems to discuss, especially in both being simultaneously hurtling into modernity and deeply traditional/conservative in many ways and places

So. Is this a silly idea considering most people in this program are fresh college grads, and people my age are expected to maybe be getting more settled rather than hopping continents? Is this a scary idea, considering I'll have to uproot all my shit and go exist in a foreign country whose language I really don't know beyond miniscule smatterings? I mean, hmm, yes on both counts, but I'm very excited. On count one, I'd only get older in the future and demonstrably *don't* already have a settled life and career here to disrupt (lol), and on count two...guys, I'm so so tired of letting fear and inertia make my life decisions.

Time to pack up and store most of my shit and end my lease and. Yeah. Also I haven't actually been to India in five years and will probably try to visit my relatives there in the coming months since idk if i'd had an opportunity for a prolonged visit in the future during the one year (at least) in jp. I'll also be probably selling, trading, or giving away a lot more of my hobby shit (that was sort of an ongoing project already but since I'll be unable to use most of it for a year plus it's another reason to do so), so uh, if you've ever wished I would sell any of my dolls now might be time to commit BJD Hobby Taboo and ask me lol. And, obviously, I'll be studying more Japanese, because mine is incredibly へたくそ at the moment. So much to do. But I'm really excited. And thank you to all of y'all that have been encouraging to me about anything related to this matter <3

[littleprincefan]

shuichi saihara was born on september 7th and guess who’s birthday is also september 7th?brasil’s independence. therefore making shuichi saihara brazilian i rest my case

[1ore]

it wasn't enough that arizona's japanese internment camps were placed on gila river indian community and colorado river indian tribes' land as "reservations within reservations" (and against the desires of GRIC.) now i get to learn that chinese and japanese immigrants evaded the chinese exclusion act by traveling first to mexico and then to the u.s., entering through o'odham land, through the late 1800s own flavor of "prevention through deterrence," while the u.s. used what is by all rights a diverse and abundant desert to kill them, just as they do latine migrants today. and now i feel like i have to tell everyone i know about this because nobody told me. our fates as illegal immigrants are so tightly bound up i want to scream.

from Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis by Jared Orsi

[aromanticgarbage]

Thinking about that silly i hate foreigners 2012 filthy frank video and the fact that Joji literally pulled out his government approved passport for a stupid two minutes long comedy skit.

[itsmaddiebee]

ig: themaddiebee

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

SoCal gothic is like missions haunted by the ghosts of genocide, crumbling eastside graves full of dirty men like Doheny and Mulholland, rotting Victorians in redlined neighborhoods, & studio backlots that abut mausoleums where the sound of old films play in the ghostly night. Development deals cut with USC on the site of destroyed native villages, patriotic monuments on the site of forts + battlefields where Californios were slaughtered by American conquerors, Edwardian public schools filled with asbestos where the lights turn on by themselves.

[silvermoon424]

When the manga you're reading makes it clear that the mangaka has some interesting opinions on Chinese immigrants and WWII reparations

[sapphire-theseainequator]

I am still angry with people who defend Maruki, because if a world known psychiatrist tweets about "Racism is bad, but minority should conform" or "The cure to male loneliness is finding them good girl", people would clown the shit out if him.

Like, did you know that Maruki fix "pick up artists" by giving them 100 women who is somehow suddenly willing to date weird sexist pricks? Phantom thieves would beat them up and tell them to not be jackass to women, but no, Maruki needs to "turn" women into obedient sex slaves for incels.

Like even if they consent, the pick up artists turn into a better boyfriend because of maruki's magic shenaningans, and there is no risk to this at all. It is still a horrifying shit to see.

If persona 5 is brave enough to have non jokey gay npc who struggles with his parents, I will assume the Maruki's way is to make his parents more accepting, but make him act "less gay more normal".

And Maruki's defender is still insisting that his reality is good and not horrifying! It still is even if well they are happy and willing. Especially when the reality is giving Andrew Tate wannabes 100 women who wants to date them