Have you seen the SAW series? This month, the movie SAW 4 was released. The series has been released on Halloween season since 2004 and it was the 4th series this year. The 1 was praised with its tensing and thrilling story in a film festival even though it cost less budget and the other series won top one of the week in the movie office box chart.
When I watched the first series on the DVD, I got pretty huge a shock with its story and I watched other 2 and 3. People say SAW is the best and others are not so good but if you see the 1, you must want to see the next, or will be made to want to.
I can't write about the detail of the story because it is a big secret. What's more, I can hardly predict how the story goes this time. These days I'm so busy with the university and my part time job that I don't have time to go see it. I feel like I couldn't see the old year out and the New Year in without seeing the movie.
2007年11月20日火曜日
A response to “Tired of getting stopped”
The author of “Tired of getting stopped” seems to be an African American and knows the meaning and the importance of the so-called gaijin cards well. He follows the Foreign Registry Law and always carries his card. He is just one of foreign residents living in Japan.
However, he feels discriminated against at a particular place in Nagoya by the same female police officer. He is always stopped for a police check by the female police in front of Takashimaya. He says that she has stopped him as many as thirteen times even though it was six months since he came to Japan.
There are no ideas about his looks, age or job but probably she has a kind of a stereotype or, worse, a racial prejudice against African American people. She seems to misunderstand that all African Americans are from ghetto, has been committing many crimes since they were young and can be criminals and he is also about to break into Takashimaya. In order to prevent the happening crime, therefore, she tries and stops him every time. This act may be caused by a responsibility as a police officer but it is also involved with her personal emotion.
However, he feels discriminated against at a particular place in Nagoya by the same female police officer. He is always stopped for a police check by the female police in front of Takashimaya. He says that she has stopped him as many as thirteen times even though it was six months since he came to Japan.
There are no ideas about his looks, age or job but probably she has a kind of a stereotype or, worse, a racial prejudice against African American people. She seems to misunderstand that all African Americans are from ghetto, has been committing many crimes since they were young and can be criminals and he is also about to break into Takashimaya. In order to prevent the happening crime, therefore, she tries and stops him every time. This act may be caused by a responsibility as a police officer but it is also involved with her personal emotion.
2007年11月13日火曜日
A responce to "Not so welcome to Japan any longer"
Today I am going to respond to this article. In the article the author mentions a coming Act which obliges all foreigners to take fingerprints and pictures of their faces.
However, taking fingerprints is also considered as “a violation of basic human rights.’’ In Japan, taking and submitting fingerprints were one of obligations in the process of the Alien Registration. Through the 80th to 90th, however, the obligation was loosened because of some movements against it and eventually it was abolished in 2004. In other countries, this kind of policy is adopted but gathering criticism from foreigners and leftist organization as well.
Basically I agree with the Act. In my opinion, it is non sense to claim taking fingerprints to be “a violation of basic human rights.’’ People usually don’t care about their fingerprints every day. Today human rights are clamored strongly but the issue is just on today’s tendency.
However, taking fingerprints is also considered as “a violation of basic human rights.’’ In Japan, taking and submitting fingerprints were one of obligations in the process of the Alien Registration. Through the 80th to 90th, however, the obligation was loosened because of some movements against it and eventually it was abolished in 2004. In other countries, this kind of policy is adopted but gathering criticism from foreigners and leftist organization as well.
Basically I agree with the Act. In my opinion, it is non sense to claim taking fingerprints to be “a violation of basic human rights.’’ People usually don’t care about their fingerprints every day. Today human rights are clamored strongly but the issue is just on today’s tendency.
2007年11月6日火曜日
A responce to “Which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan?”
After reading an article, “which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan?,” I thought about discrimination around me.
Since I live in Osaka, which has a Korean town, there were some Korean students living in Japan in my school. They usually made themselves known as Japanese names and some of them name their real real names. If they didn't say they were Koreans , they confessed their good friends that way but their friends didn't care about it and dealt with them as friends normally, though maybe they were surprised at first.
I know discrimination against African American people were rigid in the U.S., especially in the 1950s, and they fought their rights in the Civil Rights Movement. Today discrimination against them, such as the Jena Six, still prevails in some areas. I think, however, discrimination against them hardly happens in Japan.
Therefore, probably handicapped people suffer from discrimination worst of all ideas in the article, although unlike other cases of foreign people, they are Japanese. It depends on the degree of handicaps but handicaps tend to be seen with curiosity by ordinary people. Some People have handicaps mentally and others physically. Companies or employees tend not to require them. Even if they get a job fortunately, its salary is not as high as ordinary people's.
Until reading the article this time, I thought discrimination was just by people in one county against foreign people. I realized discrimination against domestic people can easily happen and be overlooked.
Since I live in Osaka, which has a Korean town, there were some Korean students living in Japan in my school. They usually made themselves known as Japanese names and some of them name their real real names. If they didn't say they were Koreans , they confessed their good friends that way but their friends didn't care about it and dealt with them as friends normally, though maybe they were surprised at first.
I know discrimination against African American people were rigid in the U.S., especially in the 1950s, and they fought their rights in the Civil Rights Movement. Today discrimination against them, such as the Jena Six, still prevails in some areas. I think, however, discrimination against them hardly happens in Japan.
Therefore, probably handicapped people suffer from discrimination worst of all ideas in the article, although unlike other cases of foreign people, they are Japanese. It depends on the degree of handicaps but handicaps tend to be seen with curiosity by ordinary people. Some People have handicaps mentally and others physically. Companies or employees tend not to require them. Even if they get a job fortunately, its salary is not as high as ordinary people's.
Until reading the article this time, I thought discrimination was just by people in one county against foreign people. I realized discrimination against domestic people can easily happen and be overlooked.
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