A breakthrough for ethnic minority rights in Japan: Ana Bortz’s courageous challenge

• Autores: Keiko Yamanaka
• Localización: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries / coord. por Mirjana Morokvasic, Umut Erel, Kyoko Shinozaki, Vol. 1, 2003 (Gender on the Move), ISBN 978-3-8100-3493-9, págs. 231-259
• Idioma: inglés
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  • On June 16, 1998, Ana Bortz, a Brazilian journalist and legal resident of Hamamatsu City, entered a jewelry store while shopping for a necklace. The proprietor, Takahisa Suzuki, approached her to ask, “Where are you from?” When she answered, “I am from Brazil,” he gestured her toward the door while pointing to a homemade poster in Japanese on the wall: “No foreigners allowed in this store.” He then took from the wall a police department sign warning of frequent robberies in jewelry stores. Thrusting it before her, he demanded that she leave.