Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
@arudoudebito.bsky.social
Author (Embedded Racism 2nd Ed. 2022, Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants to Japan, Japanese Only); columnist (SNA/Japan Times); human rights advocate, scholar, researcher, university Lecturer Faculty. Website www.debito.org
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December 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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(Now that the LDP's coalition partner Komeito has as of this morning reportedly backed out of their alliance, it's possible new coalitions will form with parties further right.)
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(Now that the LDP's coalition partner Komeito has as of this morning reportedly backed out of their alliance, it's possible new coalitions will form with parties further right.)
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October 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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(Now that the LDP's coalition partner Komeito has as of this morning reportedly backed out of their alliance, it's possible new coalitions will form with parties further right.)
www.debito.org?p=17605
(Now that the LDP's coalition partner Komeito has as of this morning reportedly backed out of their alliance, it's possible new coalitions will form with parties further right.)
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My SNA Visible Minorities col 69: “Japan’s Rightward Swing is Overblown” (Aug 24, 2025), on how the emergence of Sanseito shouldn’t be ignored but it doesn’t deserve the media hype, as its ideas are ...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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My SNA Visible Minorities 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 21, 2025) | ...
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July 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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My latest SNA VM 64: “It can only end in violence”: On how ignoring the rule of law will mean somebody’s going to get hurt, and in a society that goes to extremes like America does, only extreme blo...
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March 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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HNY 2025: My SNA VM column 63: “Trump’s Weak Mandate”, on how 47’s victory was in fact a narrow one, and arguably not because people support his authoritarianism. More a worldwide election trend aga...
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January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Debito’s SNA Visible Minorities 62: “Electing the Joker” (Dec 10, 2024), on how a trend over the past decades to depict the “villain as hero” in popular culture has influenced politics downstream and...
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December 14, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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My SNA Visible Minorities 61: “An Obituary for Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori”: As Trump is set to take the US Presidency again, let us consider the damage wrought by mixing political mac...
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November 19, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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