Here�s a … publication, apparently available at convenience stores, courtesy of friend Steve (who took the trouble to purchase, scan, and help publicize this issue). Entitled �GAIJIN [sic] HANZAI URA FILE�, it publicizes all the underground evils that gaijin in Japan [supposedly] do…

Here are some �highlights�:
Back Page:
??????????????47000?!!
47,000 crimes by foreigners each year!!
There then follows a �danger rating� (???) of each country, scattered on a world map surrounded by knives, guns and syringes:
China: 14
Russia: 5
Korea: 9
Brazil: 8
Colombia: 3
Etc.
None for the USA, Canada, Australia or the whole of Europe�

http://www.debito.org/index.php/?p=192

The number of non-regular workers with employment contracts of up to one year increased by 995,000, or 14.8%, in 2005 from 2000, a government report showed Wednesday, underscoring that companies are refraining from employing regular workers to cut labor costs.

The number of non-regular employees totaled 7,716,000 in 2005 while that of regular workers with contracts of more than one year fell 1,425,000, or 3.4%, to 40,617,000, according to census figures released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

�http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/397788