#Japan memoirist and commentator Karen Hill Anton writes on “What Racism is — and isn’t — in Japan” (her Substack, Nov 12, 2025). I critique it, as it’s under-researched and willfully ignorant of the historical record. www.debito.org?p=17614

Debito's SNA column: "Takaichi's PM Election Changes my Projections", on how the recent election of Sanae Takaichi as leader of the LDP is in fact a huge step back for Japan’s democracy and diversity.
Shingetsu News Agency, Oct 8, 2025
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Food for thought: I make the case that depicting Japan's July UH Election results as a "rightward lurch" is a bit overblown. I'm not saying ignore Sanseito. But wait a couple more elections b/f we can justify the media hype. Sanseito is saying nothing new. shingetsunewsagency.com/2025/08/26/v...

Debito's SNA Visible Minorities column 68: “Viewing Trump’s ‘#DOGE reforms’ from the inside”, where I interview a civil servant in the US Government on how the bureaucrat purge is affecting them (July 24, 2025)
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My latest SNA VM column 67: "International Tourism Has Been Good for Japan", where I debunk the arguments about Japan being "overtouristed", and caution against countermeasures (dual pricing, etc.) that are becoming racialized policymaking
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SNA SCOOP: My “Letter from Canada”, weirdly threatened by invasion by Trump Admin. Includes screen captures of racist/secessionist merch from a company owned by FBI Director Kash Patel. This means high-level USG official directly profiting from sowing secession in another country! debito.org?p=17549

My recent SNA column 64: “It can only end in violence” (Feb 26). A POTUS ignoring the rule of law means somebody will get hurt; that's why we have rule of law. But in a society that goes to extremes like USA, only extreme blowback makes the pendulum swing back shingetsunewsagency.com/2025/02/26/v...

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My latest SNA col 63: "Trump's Weak Mandate" (Jan 20, 2025). Overview: 47's term has been called an “overwhelming, historic mandate.” Untrue. I make the case his narrow victory was more a worldwide repudiation of incumbents. Don't fall for the fatalistic spin.
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Debito’s SNA 62: “Electing the Joker” (Dec 10 2024): Depicting the “villain as hero” over decades in popular culture has influenced politics and made Trump more electable. Consider a theory that being a "Bad Guy" has actually become a sales point.
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My book "Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination" (Lexington Books, 2nd Edition 2022) is completely revised and updated with 100 extra pages of new material. To see what's new inside, and download a flyer to take to your library to get a copy debito.org/embeddedraci...

Just joined. Looking forward to an informative, more positive, and less Musky smell to my media environment.

With the devastating US election results, consider my SNA obit on authoritarian Alberto Fujimori (Nov 2, 2024), and the destruction of Peruvian democracy by mixing political machines w family ties. Portentous, as the Trump Family likewise is retaking power. shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/11/02/v...