Privilege for Korean Residents in Japan (11/15) -The dark side of Japanese villages

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Privileges for Koreans Living in Japan (11/15)

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Criminal Reporting

 In crime reporting, some media outlets use only the alias of suspects of Korean or Chinese nationality in cases where they are Korean residents in Japan, rather than their real name. For example, the Asahi Shimbun chooses whether to use the alias or real name when reporting suspects on a case-by-case basis.[68][69][70]

 Makoto Sakurai, chairman of the Zaitokukai group, argues that reporting using aliases is a privilege for Zainichi Koreans.

 Japanese and other foreign criminals not only face legal challenges, but also face social sanctions when their crimes are widely publicized through media coverage. However, some media outlets, such as the Asahi Shimbun, conceal the nationality and real names of Korean residents in Japan and report crimes using pseudonyms, granting them special exemption from social sanctions. (Quoted from Makoto Sakurai's book, "Japan First Party Manifesto.") [Page number needed]

In response to this, Yoshimichi Noma argues in his book that if a person uses a pseudonym, the publication of their pseudonym in the newspaper would cause greater social damage than the publication of their real ethnic name.[71]

 Tadanobu Bando, a former interpreter for the National Police Agency, argues, "The reporting of crimes committed by Chinese people is becoming a situation that can only be described as suppression of free speech." "Even when it's clear that a crime was committed by a Chinese person, the only reporting is that they're Asian foreigners. This is abnormal."[72]

 Choi Seok-young points out that when a heinous crime occurs, some people baselessly suspect that the perpetrator is Korean because the media has continued to report the perpetrator's alias, and argues that if real names had been reported from the beginning, such incidents could have been prevented.[73]

 In 2017, in the case of a 19-year-old Chinese boy murdering his Japanese stepfather in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, Kyodo News concealed the fact that the perpetrator was Chinese.[74] Only some media outlets reported the perpetrator's nationality.[75][76]

 In 2017, in the case of a woman murdered by an unemployed Chinese man she did not know in Miyota Town, Nagano Prefecture,[77] the Asahi Shimbun concealed the perpetrator's real name and reported only his alias.[78]

 In 2017, in the case where the fourth largest amount of methamphetamine ever was seized in Ibaraki Prefecture, a Japanese, a Dutch, and a Chinese national were arrested. The names of the Japanese and Dutch suspects were reported in the media, but the names of the two Chinese suspects were not.[79][80][81] Some media outlets simply stated that the perpetrators were foreigners, without even reporting their nationalities.[82][83]