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OITA – Since the coronavirus outbreak, reports have been developed that foreign citizens living in spaces with leading foreign communities in Japan are being discriminated against and hated.
A 22-year-old Indian student at Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University was targeted by a verbal attack while walking through Beppu Railway Station in Oita Prefecture in mid-August.
“Ch . . . foreign, crown,” said a Japanese man in his thirties, in situation with two others.
Although the student’s university, also located in Beppu, reported since August 8 that a dozen exchange students had tested positive for the virus, none of them. He tried to object, but the men told him to “get lost” because they were at a social distance, so in the end the student can just do nothing.
These anti-Japanese prejudices are perceived as a result of an exaggerated concern about infection and ignorance among those who do not have the opportunity to speak to the foreign communities with which they reside.
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific’s approximately 2,700 exchange students, representing almost part of their enrollments, forge deep ties with the local network through extracurricular and part-time activities.
However, since the coronavirus outbreak, the city has gained reports that some hairdressers and food establishments have developed symptoms that deny access to college students.
In response, without delay he began distributing about 1,500 advertisements to advertising operators reminding them that “combat opposes the virus, not people. “
Some corporations in Yokohama’s Chinatown also reported receiving hate emails in March accusing the Chinese of the coronavirus outbreak, with messages such as “Out of Japan. “
According to a survey of around 400 foreign nationals living in Fukuoka prefecture in May via the monthly multilingual magazine Fukuoka Now, around 20% of those surveyed said they experienced some form of coronavirus discrimination.
Toshihiro Menju, managing director and chief systems director of the Japan International Exchange Center, believes that providing local and foreign citizens with opportunities to be the key to eliminating discrimination and prejudice.
“Relationships that are established on the network on a daily basis thrive in normal times,” he said.
With foreign residents, many of whom are Japanese-Brazilian, representing about 10% of minokamo’s population in Gifu Prefecture, the city is running to share data with its foreign community.
City officials, accompanied by a pastor with delight in interpretation, a dozen churches with foreign congregations to urge them to take in-depth action against the spread of coronavirus.
“Local governments treat foreign citizens in the same way as Japanese citizens and make their rules and other policies clear,” Menju said.
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