Die Zahl der in der Präfektur Saitama festgenommenen Ausländer hat sich nicht verändert, obwohl sich ihre Bevölkerung in den letzten zehn Jahren verdoppelt hat.
In einem Interview mit The Asahi Shimbun sagte Ono, dass das Hörensagen in den sozialen Medien über ausländische Einwohner in Kawaguchi etwas „fiktiv“ sei, fügte aber hinzu, dass es eine Tatsache sei, dass „die Menschen Angst um sie haben“.
„Türkische Staatsangehörige versammeln sich und leben hier, und viele von ihnen haben einen instabilen sozialen Status, was bei den Anwohnern zunehmende Besorgnis erregt“, sagte Ono. „Es gibt keine Daten, die darauf hindeuten, dass sich die Sicherheit verschlechtert hat.“
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Zwei Polizeistationen in Kawaguchi identifizierten im Jahr 2024 1.181 Personen, die Straftaten begangen hatten, davon 191 Ausländer. Darunter waren 59 Chinesen, 53 Vietnamesen und 36 Türken.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16275155
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All crime is counted together, so: visa violations, bicycle theft, assault, and organized crime are all being lumped together in a single headline number.
Without a breakdown by offense type, the statistic is emotionally suggestive, not analytically useful. Also: Every legal resident passed through approval. A visa isn’t self-issued. Someone reviewed the application, checked documents, verified eligibility, and approved entry.
A new day, a new post painting the Kurds in Saitama as law-abiding cute angels who don’t commit visa violations, traffic violations, rape, and murder. The community is a huge source of headache for the locals, the Japanese government, the Turkish government, and the rest of foreign residents.
I will keep repeating this until people realize what kind of a misinformed opinion is being manufactured in these so-called news articles. The secretary of the Japan-Kurdish Friendship Association (Mr. Vakkas Cikan) is an active financial supporter of the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK (more than 30,000 Turkish citizens including people of Kurdish descent died due to PKK attacks, near million displaced because of the reign of terror). The restaurants and shops in/near Kawaguchi sell concert tickets for the events held in the Kurdish culture center in Saitama. The proceedings from these sales are money laundered via carriers to Turkey where the PKK receives the funds.
To avoid being accused of hate speech and disinformation, here’s a bit of good evidence. By decision of the Council of Ministers and the President of Turkey, the assets of Vakkas Cikan from Gaziantep were frozen pursuant to Article 7 of Law No. 6415, due to links with the PKK/KCK, as published in the Official Gazette No. 32384 on November 29, 2023. This measure was implemented by MASAK (Financial Crimes Investigation Board of Turkey), the authority responsible for combating money laundering and terrorism financing. He still teaches Kurdish part-time at Tokyo Gaidai.
Saitama Kurds hold celebrations for this PKK terrorist organization every single spring. These events are sometimes illegally held as the culture center can’t always secure a permit. And when the police show up, the Kurds cry out about discrimination. That photo on bottom right is from such celebrations featuring terrorist organization propaganda.
The second thing I want to point out is that articles like these brush over the fact that some Kurds are committing high-profile crimes. Stop putting those people into the same category as the rest of us foreigners. The Japanese residents cannot be blamed for not wanting criminals living near them and the Kurdish community in Saitama continues to do an extremely poor job of internal policing of its members. The Japanese right wing crazies are offered a golden opportunity to criticize and attack all foreigners if these criminals are grouped together with the law-abiding foreigners.
We have to stop giving easy excuses to the racist people who want to kick all of us out. We don’t have the room to ally ourselves with an ethnically homogenous community riddled with criminals and market them as peace loving perfect citizens getting undeserved hate.
The Kurdish community in Saitama is problematic due to their own actions. The lack of community policing leads and will continue to lead to more conflicts with the Japanese. I said it before, I will repeat it here: No one has to clean up their trash, they have to pick it up themselves.