In case of an earthquake. . .
04/14/2006 @ 12:00 am
Check out this website of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which provides information to gaijin (foreigners) about what they need to in case of an earthquake.
Stay close to black men in areas where walls might fall. They will hold up the wall and allow you escape.
Stay away from black men on the train. They tend to fall over easily.
Black men tend to spread rumours but become quite contrite when yelled at.
P.S. There are no black women or children in Japan.
Many thanks to Alex Kane.
In the US the organization that posted this would be villified. Alas is this any different than other blatant examples of racial sterotyping and racism in Japan?
April 14th, 2006 at 12:31 amThis is shameful. Ignorance can only excuse so much.
April 14th, 2006 at 12:50 amOh my god.
April 14th, 2006 at 2:54 amHaha, what is the big deal? JP is just making up funny captions to funny-looking pictures, which just so happens to contain a black foreigner and other types of them…because it’s made for foreigners. I didn’t see any of them running around with a watermelon or something…
hint: click the link.
April 14th, 2006 at 3:16 amRay, did you look at the drawings?
April 14th, 2006 at 5:12 amRay,
The image of the black guy looks just like a blackface character(link). So yes it is ignorance to target foreigners whith that image because they are the ones that are going to recognize and be offended by it. Is it a government website? If so its not exceptable.
April 14th, 2006 at 6:18 amYeah, I saw the pictures. And the white gaijin have blonde hair, and the locals have squinty eyes and black hair. Big friggin’ deal.
I did notice the blackface character depiction, though… whether or not that’s a coincidence I do not know (and you probably don’t, either).
I like what JP did with this, though.
April 14th, 2006 at 7:05 amThe site appears to be offline now… I wonder If they’re taking down those images.
April 14th, 2006 at 12:15 pmAh, now it’s back.
April 14th, 2006 at 4:51 pm[...] Check out this over at Japundit. [...]
April 14th, 2006 at 5:01 pmEasy to ridicule this, especially knowing what happened to some foreigners in the last big Tokyo quake, and in light of the more recent comments of our favorite governor. But this IS the most detailed discussion I have seen about what to do before and during the Big One. Wish the city gov’t would finally wise up, though.
April 14th, 2006 at 5:04 pmTo top things off, the Black guy in the first picture is, judging by his shirt, a Japanophile.
April 14th, 2006 at 10:14 pmNo! No!
Not a Japanophile!
April 15th, 2006 at 2:57 amHahaha…..Japanophiles, insensitive racial stereotypes, funny captions, all in a single post.
When did they contract out those illustrations? 1965?
April 15th, 2006 at 5:08 amLand of the falling sun
Just had another very pleasant trip to Japan. Sure Narita Airport is closer to Hawaii than Tokyo and I had the pleasure of spending the Easter weekend stuck in a seminar, but otherwise it was great. One thing I’ve always kept in the back of my mind is…
April 17th, 2006 at 1:00 pmI’m with Ray. People (read: Americans) are waaaaaaaaaaaaay too sensitive these days. I’m a big, fat blond guy, and oh look, there are a couple of those in those pictures. Should I be offended? Well, too bad, ‘cos I’m not.
They’re cariacatures! In SAFETY POSTERS! If they were in war propeganda or some sort of hate group’s literature I’d say there was rascist intent, but it’s a SAFETY POSTER for crying out loud!
And if you think those posters are bad, don’t click THIS link:
April 18th, 2006 at 1:55 amYou mean the same link where a guy called blackcat notes the Japanese government was furious at being on the receiving end of the same sort of treatment, Bruce?
These caricatures are incredibly offensive, and somehow I doubt you’d find a single Japanese person to defend them if that black guy was replaced by a bucktoothed yellow guy with coke-bottle glasses and a pudding-bowl haircut. It’s people who make excuses for such inexcusable behavior who give Japanophiles a bad name - stop defending offensive racial stereotypes by hiding behind accusations of “oversensitivity” and “political correctness”.
April 18th, 2006 at 5:05 amBuwaa haa haa I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this! I was in an internet cafe in Irvine, Ca and burst out laughing! Awesomely funny stuff. Thanks for pointing it out to us. Dangit there are some hypersensitive crybabies out there!! Relax people, you’ll live longer. – Dan
May 11th, 2006 at 6:38 amTokyo Racism
Black Man’s Burden (Japundit) Tokyo Keishicho, or Metropolitan Police, published a web page on do’s and don’ts in an earthquake. Rumour is from black man, information is from white man. Please mind the black man on the Tokyo Underground. But
June 26th, 2006 at 4:48 pmHuh those images on Japundit are edited, you people jump to conclusions check the link before saying how Japanese are racist.
P.S.Those images really are funny
June 6th, 2007 at 12:14 amHuh those images on Japundit are edited
The Tokyo government changed their images after this became an issue on the net.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:29 am