{"id":1884,"date":"2009-04-19T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2009-04-19T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:34:23","slug":"nikkei-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/nikkei-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei go home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1892469,00.html\">Japan to Unemployed Immigrants: Thanks, You Can Go Home Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Japan&#8217;s offer to minority communities in need has spawned the ire of those whom it intends to help. It is one thing to be laid off in an economic crisis. It is quite another to be unemployed and to feel unwanted by the country where you&#8217;ve settled. That&#8217;s how Freitas and other Brazilians feel since the Japanese government started the program to pay $3,000 to each jobless foreigner of Japanese descent (called Nikkei) and $2,000 to each family member to return to their country of origin. The money isn&#8217;t the problem, the Brazilians say; it&#8217;s the fact that they will not be allowed to return until economic and employment conditions improve \u2014 whenever that may be. &#8220;<strong>When Nikkei go back and can&#8217;t return, for us that&#8217;s discrimination<\/strong>,&#8221; says Freitas, who has lived in Japan with his family for 12 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes. It is discrimination. In fact the <strong>very idea of the nation-state is predicated on the concept of discrimination between non-citizens and citizens.<\/strong> The world is not flat, and there are grades of human affinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan to Unemployed Immigrants: Thanks, You Can Go Home Now: Japan&#8217;s offer to minority communities in need has spawned the ire of those whom it intends to help. It is one thing to be laid off in an economic crisis. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/nikkei-go-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[232,234,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}