ICJS Lecture Seriese: "Japanese Only" by Arudou Debito
- Date
- March 10, 2005, Thursday
- Time
- 7:30 p.m.
- Venue
- Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 206 (access)
- Admission
- This lecture is free and open to the general public, but space may be limited. RSVP is not required: seating is on a first come, first served basis.
"Japanese Only" signs, excluding people who "look foreign", are proliferating nationwide--thanks to fear and opportunism arising from Japan's inevitable internationalization.
Naturalized Japanese citizen ARUDOU Debito, formerly Dave Aldwinckle, offers this first-person narrative account of his experiences dealing with exclusionary onsen bathhouses in Otaru City, Hokkaido, Japan.
As the case transforms from an international issue into a domestic policy push, Arudou charts the obstacles--interpersonal, ideological, journalistic, governmental, and judicial--which he and his friends encounter in their quest for justice and equal protection of the law.
For more information about Arudou, and the focus of his activism, see http://www.debito.org/japaneseonly.html
About ICJS
The Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS) is an organization dedicated to fostering study and research on various topics related to contemporary Japan and Asia.
