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Re: Mr. Clark's Feb. 17 column withdrawn from Japan Times

2005-06-21T15:23:16Z

Dear Steve

I notice that you and your childish, anti-Japan racist friends are quite
happy to abuse the freedom provided by my website to post abusive messages.

But the website to which you are attached does not provide a similar
courtesy.

Maybe your self-styled Machiavelli cannot tolerate any challenge to his

Re: Mr. Clark's Feb. 17 column withdrawn from Japan Times

2005-06-21T15:14:45Z

Dear Steve: Has anyone seen the latest idiocy of your chldish friends -
the attempt to run a racist anti-Japan cartoon spoofing the 100 year old
Little Black Sambo children's nursery story?.

It is time something was done about those friends.

Here we are not talking about which bathhouse in Otaru excluded foreigners

Mr. Clark's Feb. 17 column withdrawn from Japan Times

2005-06-21T07:42:08Z

It appears this posting has "disappeared", thus the repost. I note that
the article is still in its original form on Mr. Clark's website
despite having been shown to contain numerous errors and fabrications.
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It appears that Mr. Clark's Feb. 17 column, "Racist Banner Looks
Frayed," has been withdrawn by the Japan Times from its website. Links

Views of anti-discrimination

2005-06-17T08:29:21Z

Views on anti-discrimination – Greg Clark.
March 30, 2005
With the Otaru bathhouse people easing invective, can I be allowed to
summarise my own views on this debate?
I realise that those of us who do not condemn the Otaru bathhouse
owners as ruthless discriminators are indeed weak, compromising and

Re: Clark's own views on the anti-discrimination debate

2005-03-31T02:20:31Z

Morning!
A few points to clarify. First of all, Mr. Arudo and his co-plaintiffs
are not my friends. Indeed, I have only ever met him one time, at a
JALT conference. His presentation was a little left leaning for my
taste, but basically fine. I find myself on the opposite side of the
fence much of the time over at the Community group- in terms of

Re: Clark's own views on the anti-discrimination debate

2005-03-30T23:11:52Z

GregoryClarknet@googlegroups.c om on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 10:48 PM

Dear DS: If you and your friends really want grist for your
anti-discrimination campaign, I suggest you visit the deportation room at
Shinagawa Immigration. Every morning, week after week, you will find a sad
assortment of around 50-60 people forced to hand themselves in for

Re: Clark's own views on the anti-discrimination debate

2005-03-30T22:42:15Z

GregoryClarknet@googlegroups.c om on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 10:48 PM

Do not glaze. Both problems were an extension of the arrogance that says
Western views on racial harmony should be imposed on peoples who clearly
cannot live in harmony. Otaru was a microcosm of the same attitudes.

Thank you. I am glad you admit it. No one is a greater admirer of the

Re: Clark's own views on the anti-discrimination debate

2005-03-30T13:48:50Z

Mr. Clark;
Not sure where to begin here. Your message covered a lot of ground- to
much for me to keep up with. My eyes began to glaze over when you
segued into Yugoslavia and the problems of the Aborigines! I will try
to address a few salient points.
re; "foreign crime". This term is bandied about with little meaning.

Clark's own views on the anti-discrimination debate

2005-03-30T00:07:38Z

Views on anti-discrimination – Greg Clark.

March 30, 2005

With the Otaru bathhouse people easing invective, can I be allowed to
summarise my own views on this debate?

I realise that those of us who do not condemn the Otaru bathhouse owners
as ruthless discriminators are indeed weak, compromising and mealy-mouthed

Re: In response to Mr. Clark's Feb. 13 letter to Japan Times

2005-03-25T09:29:19Z

this
Golly gee Greg, finally you want the "important questions" answered!
So, here's one for you.
Perhaps a dozen times you have dodged it, but it is, I believe, the
most important question raised in this debate. Now with your
newly-discovered interest in important questions you will, I would
expect, take the time to write the word "Yes" or "No" below the

Re: In response to Mr. Clark's Feb. 13 letter to Japan Times

2005-03-24T12:48:08Z

GregoryClarknet@googlegroups.c om on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 5:22 PM

Don't you ever get tired of listening to your own voice, nit picking
endlessly over the same topic?

How about answering a few of the more important questions raised in this
debate.
GC

Gregory Clark
Head, Research Japan Office

Re: In response to Mr. Clark's Feb. 13 letter to Japan Times

2005-03-24T08:22:20Z

Mr. Clark often finds it convenient to label as Japan-bashers those who
call him to task on persistent and purposeful errors he makes and his
refusal to take responsibility for them. Even a friend and colleague,
who went to great lengths to point out his friendship and respect for
Mr. Clark, is still not immune Mr. Clark's habit of resorting to

Re: In response to Mr. Clark's Feb. 13 letter to Japan Times

2005-03-19T00:49:12Z

Peter: Since we are colleagues let me be frank.

You wrote an article that was played back here big in Japan, giving the
impression that No Foreigner signs were numerous in Japan. If you did not
write that, or if your copy was messed up, is it not you who is obliged in
the first place to start pushing out corrections?

Re: How About Putting Things in Perspective

2005-03-17T00:59:49Z

Mr. Scott,
Not anarchy per say and most definitely not actively. I've been
reading a book recently and though the book itself is not a very useful
source for all things Japanese, it does however make a few good points
as well as food for thought. To the point then. What I read, and I
agree with this, is that Japanese corporate and government structure is

Re: How About Putting Things in Perspective

2005-03-16T23:37:09Z

than the iron fist of the law to get people to pay their NHK fees is
hardly Orwellian.
Speaking of a "society that relies more on good will and so on" the
word that always pops into my mind when I think about Japan's legal
structure is "Anarchy." Is Japan consciously pursuing Anarchy?
Just a thought.