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Olaf Karthaus
Professor at the Chitose
Institute
of Science and Technology.
For more info about my profession, please have a look at my university page .
This is my private homepage with the following content (last update
April 11, 2008):
My Blog
In 2004, I, together with Arudou
Debito,
went to Wakkanai and Monbetsu in
Hokkaido
to submit petitions to make discrimination against foreigners in Japan
illegal.
Here
is a report about the trip
In 1999, my family and I were refused entry at the Yunohana
Bathhouse in Otaru. I was a plaintiff in the lawsuit that followed.
Here is our website
with
general information.
Here
is our website with information
about
the appeal of the Onsen at the Sapporo High Court.
On Feb. 17, 2005 the Japan
Times
published a column by Gregory Clark "Racist
banner looks frayed". In Clark's opinion, foreigners who suffer
discrimination and decide to take legal actions against that, are
"ultrasensitive", and "drag[ bathouses] through the courts" and
that "[the bathhouse] was hit with a
[law]suit".
There are factual errors in this article, and the Japan Times published
my letter to the editor
on March 9, 2005, in which I attempted to correct the wrong
impressions given by Clark.
Since my letter was edited by the Japan Times before printing, I
provide
both, my original and the edited documents here.
On Feb. 16, 2005, I gave a presentation about the "Otaru Onsen
Lawsuit" at the OAG, the German
East-Asia society in Tokyo.
Announcement
and abstract on the OAG website (in German).
In 2004 the Japanese government published a survey among Japanese
nationals about Human rights of foreigners.
Only 54% said that foreigners should have the same protection of human
rights as Japanese. This is a steady decline from 68.3% 10 years
ago, and 65.5% 5 years ago.
It seems that the lack of proper information of the Japanese people is
one
of the reasons why the support for the protection of foreigners in
Japan
is dwindeling.
This is very alarming. An even more basic question: why is such a poll
necessary
anyway? ShouldnÕt it be clear and common sense that people should enjoy
the
same level of human rights, regardless of nationality?
Here are
the poll results and my detailed
analysis of the data.
In spring 2003, the Japanese Embassy in Germany published my
profile
in their monthly science newsletter (pdf
file,
in German).
My son's
award-winning idea of school in
future
My daughters wood block print
click on the picture to see a larger version
The Daniel
Project about our son Daniel Tatsuo, who passed away in August
2000.
Tract about Daniel (in Japanese)
(in english).
Hokkaido
I like living in Hokkaido, and here is the
reason
why. I am sorry, but up to now it is only in German
Evolution and the Intelligent Design debate. Do biological
organisms show signs of Intelligent Design or not?
Here are my thoughts about an apparent jury-rigged
design in nature.
Intelligent Design proponents are being singled out, harassed, and
their
scientific careers are at stake.
Mr. Sternberg from the
Smithonian Institute was the
editor of a journal that published a pro-ID paper.
Here
is my open letter, sent to the AAAS and journals and newspapers, to
protest the
unfair treatment of scientific ideas and theories that are oposing
neo-darwinism.
My Hobbies
I like riding bicycle
and like skiing.
I am a collector of Japanese
phonecards.
My Belief
I am a member of the International
Christian
Fellowship (ICF) in Sapporo.
kart @ photon . chitose .a c. jp
