{"id":29022,"date":"2013-02-23T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=29022"},"modified":"2013-02-23T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T15:13:23","slug":"washington-post-jet-teacher-under-fire-from-right-wing-for-lessons-on-japans-history-of-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/23\/washington-post-jet-teacher-under-fire-from-right-wing-for-lessons-on-japans-history-of-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: JET teacher under fire from right-wing for lessons on Japan\u2019s history of discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

This\u00a0Washington Post<\/em> article about Okinawa<\/strong> JET Miki Dezaki<\/strong>\u00a0(“American teacher in Japan under fire for lessons on Japan\u2019s history of discrimination<\/a>“)\u00a0describes how a lesson he taught his students about discrimination that was appreciated by his students and his school has turned into a major controversy and drawn attacks from a right-wing Japanese group called\u00a0netouyo<\/strong>\u00a0after Miki posted a video of his lesson online to share with others.
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Miki was also the creator of the “Shit Japanese Students Say” video that was posted to JETwit last year along with a JQ<\/em> interview with him. \u00a0However, we removed those posts from JETwit last week upon his request as the controversy grew into something much larger than he could have imagined. \u00a0According to The Japan Daily Press <\/em>(“American teacher faces controversy, harassment over video teaching Japanese racism<\/a>“), Dezaki\u00a0also “gained a modest following over past videos he\u2019s posted like ‘Hitchhiking Okinawa’, ‘What Americans Think of Japan’, and an in-depth look at what it\u2019s like being gay in Japan.”<\/p>\n

Here’s the video Miki made about racism which he’s modified slightly to address the criticisms of him:<\/p>\n

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This\u00a0Washington Post article about Okinawa JET Miki Dezaki\u00a0(“American teacher in Japan under fire for lessons on Japan\u2019s history of discrimination“)\u00a0describes how a lesson he taught his students about discrimination that was appreciated by his students and his school has turned into a major controversy and drawn attacks from a right-wing Japanese group called\u00a0netouyo\u00a0after Miki posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[318,304,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t