TOKYO, Dec. 5, 2021—How ignorant and illiterate is the Japanese bureaucracy about what’s happening in the rest of the world? Very, as epitomized by the Ministry of Justice’s use of TikTok for ‘human rights promotion.
A famous young personality Ketcup (ケチャップさん@mijingiri), posted a TikTok video on defamation and slander backed up by the ministry’s posting, #誰かのことじゃない #法務省 (This isn’t about someone else).
A growing number of Japanese are developing awareness about human rights abuses but the country is years backward as a whole, particularly bureaucrats and public sector officials who work according to decades-old work ethics and ethos, though superficial modernization is being introduced such as long work hour reductions and increasing female officer populations.
In a recent walk outside Tokyo, I’d spotted a hair salon whose shop name was ‘Kurombo (Nigger) with a painting of what looked like a black child on the shop name plaque.
TikTok is a Chinese developed SNS. Though not confirmed, it’s reportedly raking in personal data worldwide and much of it can be used by the Chinese government.
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