(Feb 16 '15 iafricanews) = South Africa has protested after a prominent columnist in a leading right-wing newspaper in Japan praised racial segregation under apartheid as a model for Japanese immigration policy, the paper said Sunday.
Mohau N. Pheko, South Africa's ambassador to Japan, accused novelist Ayako Sono of glorifying the system of apartheid in the column published on Wednesday in the Sankei Shimbun.
Sono, who was previously an adviser to the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on education reform, wrote that Japan needs immigrant workers to help care for its rapidly ageing population - but that those workers should "live apart", as they did in South Africa under apartheid.
Pheko's letter of protest, according to a story published in the Sankei on Sunday, branded apartheid "a crime against humanity" and said it "must not be justified in the 21st century".
All countries, the Sankei quoted her as saying, must fight discrimination "against others based on skin colour or other standards".
The newspaper did not publish the full letter online, and there was no immediate comment from the South African embassy in Tokyo or from officials in Pretoria on Sunday. Full Story
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