When Japan opened to the West after Commodore Matthew Perry’s Black Ships entered Tokyo Bay, one of the most enduring problems Westerners had in dealing with the Japanese was discerning a Japanese person’s true views on public issues. The result was that the Japanese developed a reputation for dishonesty, similar to the longstanding issue of the Chinese viewed by the West.
Part of the problem was the over dependence of the Chinese on the concept of “face,” or public honor or reputation. The Chinese, especially Imperial officials in the late Ch’ing Dynasty, never knowing what public policy would eventually come down from the Imperial Capital regarding interaction with the Southern Barbarians, as Europeans were known, would lie, dissemble, obfuscate, and misdirect Europeans, even those who were sympathetic or willing to work with local officials to avoid conflict and keep the wheels of commerce running. To the Chinese official, the embarrassment of not knowing the official policy from Peking was more important that any local defeat or outrage from the barbarians.
That is not to say that some European “merchants,” diplomats, and military officials were working above board on all issues. Most of the problem was the failures of the Manchu ruling family and their inability to develop and implement a workable political, military, and trade policy towards the Europeans.
The Japanese, however, observing the failures of the Ch’ing Dynasty, created a united, though initially weak front, to the coming of the West. They also benefited from the collapse in spending for the U.S. Navy in the wake of the end of War Between The States, with the consequent failure of the United States to follow through with any significant military presence in East Asia.
At the time, France and Britain were overextended in China, and the Japanese were able to quickly develop political unity in the face of outsiders and spend heavily on available military surplus to arm up against any serious military threat to Japanese sovereignty.
Consequently, Western merchants in Japan had to deal with the Japanese as they were, not as gunboats could impose. And one thing they had to deal with was the Japanese social practice of honne and tatemae, private opinion and public opinion, commonly called private face and public face. It is the sometimes misleading and sometimes just outright dishonest expression of public opinions. Sometimes it is just to be polite, sometimes to show respect by not contradicting another person publicly, sometimes to avoid conflict, sometimes is used to deliberately insult with a statement that all know is not true. Mostly it is used to avoid open social conflict, which is very important in Japan, appearing to be in conflict with someone is considered rude and unsociable. In public, Japanese are unfailing in their politeness, regardless of any deeply held opinion of someone or something. But they hold and act on their private opinions as well, much to the consternation of the Western merchants and diplomats. Just ask the Russians.
This led in the early days of Western and Japanese interaction that the Japanese would not give an honest opinion of something, especially in business or politics. Sometimes it was viewed as dishonesty, sometimes as an excuse for the Japanese to commit to a particular course of action in diplomacy or business, usually observed as wavering and a lack of commitment. Then when the Japanese decided to act decisively and give their true opinion or commit to a particular course of action, the Western reaction was that there was some deceit involved. Instead, it was just the Japanese being polite and trying to avoid conflict, which itself was misinterpreted as acquiescence or fear, with the West only to be surprised by the intensity of Japanese opinion and action in diplomacy and war.
Social harmony is of primary importance in Japan and is the basis of Japan’s success in the modern world. With no racial problems, the Japanese concentrate on reducing social, economic, and class conflict. An example of acting to maintain and improve social harmony is that while Japan has its share of the rich and powerful, as well as poor and disadvantaged, it is public policy that all Japanese benefit from public policy. As an example, though there is no law on private sector executive pay, Japan’s top business leaders earn significantly lower salaries than their European and especially American counterparts.
Another example, as a frequent visitor to Japan I have observed, is the lack of the ostentatious and flashy in high-end consumer products. Motor vehicles are the most telling, expensive cars in Japan are always understated. True luxury must not appear to be luxurious, but common, the luxury only known to the owner and a select few. That means no Italian supercars, but the understated luxury of a Lexus. Even Mercedes and BMW are considered to be showy in Japan, and, of course, no red or other bright colors; only white, black, and gray for the rich, or even the middle class and poor. Finding a red car in Japan is tough.
Consequently, the surface is never when you draw conclusions about Japanese, you must go deeper. And so with the public position of the Japanese on refugees and the current unpleasantness in the Ukraine.
Now, back to the current unpleasantness. Publicly, the Japanese behaved with uncommon openness and generosity to Ukrainians, not in arming them, Japan has refused to participate in the military side, and very little on the public attacks on Russia, as Japan has deals on energy with Russia in the Sea of Japan that must not be disturbed, but in allowing Ukrainians to either remain in Japan or enter Japan.
This is unusual, a generally Japan ignores refugees and usually deports or imprisons them. Japan instead opened up to Ukrainian refugees, or, more specifically, evacuees. Japan from the first days of the war brought in an unusual number, for Japan, of Ukrainians and was quite generous in financial support for those without incomes, which is not the usual Japanese policy.
Japan has welcomed more than 1,800 evacuees since Russia’s war against Ukraine began over six months ago, in an uncharacteristic move for a country with a typically poor record accepting people seeking asylum.
On March 1, just five days after the launch of the invasion, Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told senior immigration officials and others in his office that Japan “has a responsibility to act in this historic moment.”
Since then, the policy, announced by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida the next day, has been spearheaded by the ministry’s Immigration Services Agency.
One official recalled that Japan’s quick decision to bring in Ukrainians using a government plane was a sort of an “unprecedented mission,” and interviews with those involved revealed that the initiative was propelled by the incumbent and previous justice ministers.
How Japan’s Justice Ministry Led Moves To Accept Ukrainian Evacuees, unattributed, The Japan Times, September 11, 2022
Two things to note here, one is the term “evacuee” and the other is the number 1,800. The Japanese are being quite clever here, the honne, the public face, is that Japan is accepting “refugees,” doing it’s public duty to the world and Globohomo’s obsession with destroying White nations and Japan as well through immigration, refugees, and asylees. The tatemae, the private opinion, is that Japan is not taking in any “refugees,” which implies some sort of permanent resettlement in Japan, but only “evacuees,” who will eventually be evacuated from Japan back to the Ukraine. It looks like that Japanese officials have read the Federale Blog and acknowledged that the Ukrainians aren’t real refugees at all. And note the miserly number of “evacuees.” It is important to note that Japan may be considering the issue of interior relocation. That is a concept in refugee law that a person may not be considered a refugee if they can go to another part of their country and be safe. And we know most of the Ukraine is safe, even in Kiev, where they are partying like there is no tomorrow. Western Ukraine is untouched by the war and all so-called Ukrainian refugees can be relocated back to the safe areas of the Ukraine.
In fact, the Japanese were publicly polite to Poland, but privately quite insulting, but in a very discreet manner, and likely the Poles did not realize it. Poland may be hosting a million or more Ukrainians, whereas the Japanese Foreign Minister publicly took only 20 Ukrainians with him after returning from Poland.
But it was the April 5 arrival of a government plane carrying Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and 20 Ukrainian evacuees from Poland that pushed the policy into the public consciousness.
Yes, it was an earthquake, a Japanese government official actually brining “refugees” with him on a government plane. That is the honne, but the tatemae is that he only took a mere 20, as The Foreign Minister’s actions were meant to impress the gullible gaijin, not really change the commitment of the Japanese government to social harmony and the the Japaneseness of Japan.
Yes, this was deliberate. The Japanese are aware that globalists are on the warpath against homogeneous Japan and want to remake Japan as they are remaking Europe and America. Japan has checked Globohomo with a jiujitsu move.
But while Japan’s approach to supporting evacuees has been praised, debate has now turned to its treatment of refugees, in part because the Ukrainians are defined as evacuees rather than having been accepted based on the United Nation’s Refugee Convention. Japan’s acceptance rate for refugees is low, with just 74 people approved for the status in 2021.
What remains is how the Jewish internationalist establishment will react. My only concern is the Japan Times in on the joke? They should know better, but have they completely swallowed the Globohomo propaganda and believe what they are writing? Any Japanese knows better. Maybe they are in on it.
As another example of honne and tatemae in action, note here that a black illegal alien invader died in custody of the Japan Immigration Services (JIS), where that would likely result in a settlement in the $100,000s or even millions, the court ordered the Japanese government to pay a miserly $11,000.
A Japanese court on Friday ordered the government to pay 1.65 million yen ($11,500) in damages to the bereaved family of a Cameroonian man who died while being detained in an immigration control facility in eastern Japan.
The bereaved family of the man, who died aged 43 in the Higashi-Nihon Immigration Center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, in March 2014, had demanded that the government pay 10 million yen in damages, alleging that immigration officials failed to send him to a medical institution despite his claims of ill health.
In handing down the judgment, the Mito District Court ruled the immigration bureau failed to carry out its duty, saying it should have sent the man to a hospital immediately.
During a hearing in March 2022, Masahiko Abe, presiding judge of the court, recommended that the two sides reach an out-of-court settlement.
Japan Government Ordered To Pay $11,500 Over Cameroonian Man’s Death, unattributed, Nikkei Asia, September 16, 2022
In Japan, honne says publicly that blacks dying in immigration custody is bad, but tatemae says privately that it is not that bad. It is publicly a judgement against Japan, but privately it is in reality an insult. Blacks are only worth $11 grand. Japan, I salute you, such a back-handed insult, which really says to blacks to get the hell out of Japan.
Sonno Joi, Revere The Emperor, Expel The Barbarian
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