Last week former Shinzo Abe adviser Ayako Sono writing in the Sankei shinbun stated that South Africa's discarded system of Apartheid might useful in helping the Japanese government deal with foreigners living in Japan. Naturally a whole lot of derision was thrown Ayako Sono's way for channeling her inner Klansman.
Now South Africa's ambassador to Japan has responded to her column with a letter that was published in the Sankei shinbun last Sunday.
South Africa has protested after a prominent columnist in leading right-wing newspaper in Japan praised racial segregation under apartheid as a model for Japanese immigration policy, the paper said Sunday.Mohau N Pheko, South Africa’s ambassador to Japan, accused novelist Ayako Sono of glorifying the system of apartheid in the column published on Wednesday in the Sankei Shimbun.
Sono, who was previously an adviser to the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on education reform, wrote that Japan needs immigrant workers to help care for its rapidly aging population—but that those workers should “live apart”, as they did in South Africa under apartheid.
Pheko’s letter of protest, according to a story published in the Sankei on Sunday, branded apartheid “a crime against humanity” and said it “must not be justified in the 21st century”.
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