“Discrimination in Japan has become profitable”: Increasing Xenophobia in the internet age, Kurdish hatred fomented by bad actors intensifying in Kawaguchi, warns Koichi Yasuda
“Discrimination in Japan has become profitable”: Increasing Xenophobia in the internet age, Kurdish hatred fomented by bad actors intensifying in Kawaguchi, warns Koichi Yasuda
Human nature to discriminate against different people sadly. We are very tribal by nature.
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“I love Japanese culture”
Indeed I do.
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Pointing fingers is always easier than fixing problems.
Yea, a 3 percent population of Japan somehow responsible for all bad things happened? Then if those foreigners are out, who would you point your fingers to? Workers?
Is sad to see history repeating itself again and again, but I can’t blame them really. When life isn’t going well from hardworking, but then if everything I need to say is “foreigner bad” and I can get big mansions, luxury cars, stock investments and influence, then why working hard to fix problems?
Th society is sicked, really. Eventually Japanese will learn the price the hard way; Korean just learned theri lesson from Yoon and I hope Japan will realize that too
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A culture with a bullying problemand very few that stand up to them
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I feel bad for any real victims. However, this is probably the 1000th post about how poor Kurds are the target of undeserved hate.
The Kurdish community in Saitama is 100% problematic. This is 100% due to their own actions.
The community is a huge source of headache for the locals, the Japanese government, the Turkish government, and the rest of foreign residents.
I will keep repeating this until people realize what kind of a misinformed opinion is being manufactured in these so-called news articles. The secretary of the Japan-Kurdish Friendship Association (Mr. Vakkas Cikan) is an active financial supporter of the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK (more than 30,000 Turkish citizens including people of Kurdish descent died due to PKK attacks, near million displaced because of the reign of terror). The restaurants and shops in/near Kawaguchi sell concert tickets for the events held in the Kurdish culture center in Saitama. The proceedings from these sales are money laundered via carriers to Turkey where the PKK receives the funds.
To avoid being accused of hate speech and disinformation, here’s a bit of good evidence. By decision of the Council of Ministers and the President of Turkey, the assets of Vakkas Cikan from Gaziantep were frozen pursuant to Article 7 of Law No. 6415, due to links with the PKK/KCK, as published in the Official Gazette No. 32384 on November 29, 2023. This measure was implemented by MASAK (Financial Crimes Investigation Board of Turkey), the authority responsible for combating money laundering and terrorism financing. He still teaches Kurdish part-time at Tokyo Gaidai.
Saitama Kurds hold celebrations for this PKK terrorist organization every single spring. These events are sometimes illegally held as the culture center can’t always secure a permit. And when the police show up, the Kurds cry out about discrimination. That photo on bottom right is from such celebrations featuring terrorist organization propaganda.
The second thing I want to point out is that articles like these brush over the fact that some Kurds are committing high-profile crimes. Stop putting those people into the same category as the rest of us foreigners. The Japanese residents cannot be blamed for not wanting criminals living near them and the Kurdish community in Saitama continues to do an extremely poor job of internal policing of its members. The Japanese right wing crazies are offered a golden opportunity to criticize and attack all foreigners if these criminals are grouped together with the law-abiding foreigners.
We have to stop giving easy excuses to the racist people who want to kick all of us out. We don’t have the room to ally ourselves with an ethnically homogenous community riddled with criminals and market them as peace loving perfect citizens getting undeserved hate.
The Kurdish community in Saitama is problematic due to their own actions. The lack of community policing leads and will continue to lead to more conflicts with the Japanese. I said it so many times before, I will repeat it here: No one has to clean up anyone’s trash, they have to pick it up themselves.
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Punching down is always easier
Human nature to discriminate against different people sadly. We are very tribal by nature.
“I love Japanese culture”
Indeed I do.
Pointing fingers is always easier than fixing problems.
Yea, a 3 percent population of Japan somehow responsible for all bad things happened? Then if those foreigners are out, who would you point your fingers to? Workers?
Is sad to see history repeating itself again and again, but I can’t blame them really. When life isn’t going well from hardworking, but then if everything I need to say is “foreigner bad” and I can get big mansions, luxury cars, stock investments and influence, then why working hard to fix problems?
Th society is sicked, really. Eventually Japanese will learn the price the hard way; Korean just learned theri lesson from Yoon and I hope Japan will realize that too
pathetic
A culture with a bullying problemand very few that stand up to them
I feel bad for any real victims. However, this is probably the 1000th post about how poor Kurds are the target of undeserved hate.
The Kurdish community in Saitama is 100% problematic. This is 100% due to their own actions.
The community is a huge source of headache for the locals, the Japanese government, the Turkish government, and the rest of foreign residents.
I will keep repeating this until people realize what kind of a misinformed opinion is being manufactured in these so-called news articles. The secretary of the Japan-Kurdish Friendship Association (Mr. Vakkas Cikan) is an active financial supporter of the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK (more than 30,000 Turkish citizens including people of Kurdish descent died due to PKK attacks, near million displaced because of the reign of terror). The restaurants and shops in/near Kawaguchi sell concert tickets for the events held in the Kurdish culture center in Saitama. The proceedings from these sales are money laundered via carriers to Turkey where the PKK receives the funds.
To avoid being accused of hate speech and disinformation, here’s a bit of good evidence. By decision of the Council of Ministers and the President of Turkey, the assets of Vakkas Cikan from Gaziantep were frozen pursuant to Article 7 of Law No. 6415, due to links with the PKK/KCK, as published in the Official Gazette No. 32384 on November 29, 2023. This measure was implemented by MASAK (Financial Crimes Investigation Board of Turkey), the authority responsible for combating money laundering and terrorism financing. He still teaches Kurdish part-time at Tokyo Gaidai.
Saitama Kurds hold celebrations for this PKK terrorist organization every single spring. These events are sometimes illegally held as the culture center can’t always secure a permit. And when the police show up, the Kurds cry out about discrimination. That photo on bottom right is from such celebrations featuring terrorist organization propaganda.
The second thing I want to point out is that articles like these brush over the fact that some Kurds are committing high-profile crimes. Stop putting those people into the same category as the rest of us foreigners. The Japanese residents cannot be blamed for not wanting criminals living near them and the Kurdish community in Saitama continues to do an extremely poor job of internal policing of its members. The Japanese right wing crazies are offered a golden opportunity to criticize and attack all foreigners if these criminals are grouped together with the law-abiding foreigners.
We have to stop giving easy excuses to the racist people who want to kick all of us out. We don’t have the room to ally ourselves with an ethnically homogenous community riddled with criminals and market them as peace loving perfect citizens getting undeserved hate.
The Kurdish community in Saitama is problematic due to their own actions. The lack of community policing leads and will continue to lead to more conflicts with the Japanese. I said it so many times before, I will repeat it here: No one has to clean up anyone’s trash, they have to pick it up themselves.