Trump's travel ban should be unconstitutional
【Federal Appeals court declares Trump travel ban unconstitutional】
It is unforeseeable how the Supreme Court will decide ultimately. But I believe barely in intellectuals and their influence in the US because of their behavior just as this judgment, in spite of all negative events since 2016. Contrary, political situation of Japan is hopeless. Strengthening of antidemocracy, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, intolerance etc. is common phenomena to both countries. However, conditions of Japanese society are much deeper in the crisis, because there are so a few intellectuals in true meaning in japan that dangerous current go on without almost any barrier.
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Refugees whom Japanese Government accepted in 2017, are only 20! Not 20 thousand, purely 20!!
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Japan takes much less international responsibility than European progressive countries. Japanese companies are competing against their rivals unfair. Not only refugee policy shows us the defectivity of Japanese state and society, but also (A) Labor, employment and wage policy, (B) women and family policy, (C) educational policy, (D) environmental policy, (E) issues around freedom and democracy and so on.
(A) In recent years in Japan, ca. 100 employees died, and weak 100 killed themselves annual because of over working.
http://www.geocities.jp/hidy_der_grosse/2017_09_24_Bundestagswahl/2017_09_24_-_Bundestagswahl.html#_Toc493988782 (My website in German)
(B) According to the Gender Gap Index 2017, Japan is No. 114 country of all 144 countries.
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-gender-gap-report-2017
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf
(C) Japan is the country with least public spending on education (% of GDP, 2014) in all OECD-countries (exclusive the countries no data),
https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/public-spending-on-education.htm
https://data.oecd.org/chart/54VK
(D) the government of Japan wants to build much coal-fired power plants,
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/01/17/editorials/revamping-nations-basic-energy-plan/
(E) According to the Press Freedom Ranking 2017, Japan is No. 72 country in all 180 countries.
https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table
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Shortly said, the political and economic Establishment of Japan has been made the state and the society so anti-liberal (here, liberal in etymological meaning), i.e., so undemocratic, that employers can let work their employees arbitrarily, so that manufacturing companies can produce their products at lower costs than their foreign rivals.
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Therefore, it is problematic, to conclude any free trade agreement with Japan, and to import the products made in Japan, with low custom duties.
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Problematic countries are not only Japan. What is more, grades of problematicality are different by countries. We need the equation/formula with which we can calculate custom duties of countries. Variables are indices which represent progressiveness/regressiveness of each country, concrete said, how free and democratic the country is, how many wage and/or salary employees receive, how long employees work, how good/bad working conditions are, how equal positions of both genders are, how equally children from varied social groups are educated, how correct the state and the society treat sexual minorities, handicapper of any kind, racial/ethnic minorities etc., how many refugees the state accepts, how few weapons the country exports, how sustainably official agencies and commercial companies treat ecological system and so on.
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I know that it is very difficult to define the equation. Some countries want large coefficient for index X, and others would like small one. These states claim to enlarge the coefficient for index Y, and those demand to diminish. The deal will continue decade to several decades. Even with all difficulties we have to however make it.
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We need a social globalization instead of the market-radical globalization. We need a globalization oriented toward solidarity instead the globalization oriented exclusively toward self-responsibility. We need a sustainable globalization instead of the globalization destroying the eco-system. We need human globalization. We need a globalization of the people, by the people, for the people instead of the globalization of the capital, by the capital, for the capital. We need a cosmopolitanization, so to say.
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Appeals court says Trump’s latest travel ban violates the law — again
(The Washington Post, February 15, 2018)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-court-says-trumps-latest-travel-ban-violates-the-law--again/2018/02/15/afe86360-f623-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html
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Appeals Court Declares Trump Travel Ban Unconstitutional
(The New York Times, February 15, 2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/02/15/us/ap-us-travel-ban-lawsuit-maryland.html