Readers' responses to Debito Arudou's last column, "In formulating immigration policy, no seat at the table for non-Japanese":

In his July 3 column, Mr. Debito Arudou makes gratuitous mention of my name and says that in my articles for The Japan Times I never miss an opportunity to claim how open-minded the Japanese are. Readers of those articles will know that this claim is nonsense, and that I frequently criticise some Japanese policies, including immigration policies, as closed-minded.

Meanwhile, Mr. Arudou, for his own reasons, never misses an opportunity not only to criticise the Japanese people as racist, but also to attack those who try to rebut some of the more outrageous of his claims.