Did you always want to know what xenophobia meant but were afraid to ask because you couldn't pronounce it? In any case, this is an interview with Prof. Yuriko Moto, a colleague at Osaka Jogakuin College who has worked at United Nations University and lectures on international human rights law at Meiji University in Tokyo. We will discuss whether prejudice, discrimination, racism and xenophobia are systemic problems or not in Japan for different types of minorities and foreigners. Some working definitions by which the four issues can be judged are
here.
