Debito Arudou has done it again — taken a reasonable idea toward championing equal rights for foreign residents, then taken it way too far with his extremism. He writes: "Why not just sew gold stars on (foreign residents') lapels and be done with it?" The treatment we receive in Japan as foreign residents is a far cry from what occurred during the Holocaust and to make such a comparison is to dishonor the victims of that atrocity.

samuel varian