For the last month or so I’ve focused on the fundraising aspect of the crisis in Japan and not much has really changed with that. Before I get into listing the upcoming events that I’ve been made aware of recently. I wanted to put out this article from the Japan Times written by an American who became a Japanese citizen about the “fly-jin” and difficulty being a Non-Japanese person in Japan during this ordeal.
Better to be branded a ‘flyjin’ than a man of the ‘sheeple’ A short quote from the end of the article is below.
But it’s the NJ [Non-Japanese] who got it particularly bad, since the worst critics were from within their own ranks. The word “fly-jin,” remember, was coined by a foreigner, so this meanness isn’t just a byproduct of systematic exclusion from society. This is sociopathy within the excluded people themselves — eating their own, egging on domestic bullies, somehow proving themselves as “more dedicated than thou” to Japan. What did these self-loathers ultimately succeed in doing? Making NJ, including themselves, look bad.
That being said, the situation in Japan is still dire. Over this past weekend friends running Hearts for Haragama, a grassroots charity in Fukushima that I’ve written about previously trekked to help clean up. The pictures show that almost 2 months after the earthquake and tsunami, there is still a lot that has to be done. They also give hope as the owners of the Haragama Kindergarten had a small wedding on the beach, a wedding that was supposed to happen on March 12th.
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