{"id":11664,"date":"2013-07-17T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2015-02-13T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:20:35","slug":"anti-korean-upper-house-candidate-suzuki-nobuyuki-wants-japan-closed-to-koreans-and-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11664","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Korean Upper House candidate Suzuki Nobuyuki wants Japan closed to immigrants and rearmed with nukes (CORRECTED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello Blog. It’s election time again, and of course we get all sorts of weirdos coming out of the woodwork. In past campaigns we’ve had antiestablishment types (love this campaign video)<\/a>, and also xenophobic types (this one was a shocker back in 2011<\/a>\u00a0— here’s his campaign video)<\/a>. But here’s one candidate this time around who targets Koreans in particular:<\/p>\n

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Suzuki Nobuyuki, a candiate for Tokyo in the Upper House for the far-right Restoration Party Shinpuu (New Winds, not to be (easily) confused with Ishihara’s Restoration party<\/a>), calls for the end of relations with Korea, an end to immigration (imin<\/em>), and even the barring of Koreans from entering Japan (how he’ll deal with the Zainichi already here is unclear from his slogans)<\/del>. Oh, and he also wants Japan to rearm itself with nuclear weapons (kakubusou<\/em>) — now that’s even fodder for Japan’s increasingly isolationist future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(UPDATE JULY 18: \u00a0It has been pointed out in the Comments Section below that the poster above of Suzuki was misunderstood, in that Suzuki is trying to use his bad-boy image of meddling with monuments overseas — so much so he’s been barred from entering South Korea — as an election campaign tactic. \u00a0 Sorry for the error, and thanks for the corrections. \u00a0He makes his barring from South Korea the banner item on his newspaper blurb too.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s his newspaper blurb, courtesy of MS (click on image to expand in your browser<\/em>):
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It has the typical right-wing tropes about a strong country with sufficient autonomy to defend itself from Chinese invasion, defending Japan’s honor by weeding out “masochistic” (jigyaku<\/em>) history from education and reestablishing the family unit along traditional lines (no doubt meaning bringing back the Ie Seido<\/a><\/em>), returning Japan to its status as the “world’s safest country” by bringing back the “world’s safest energy source,” nuclear power, and kicking out immigrants so they don’t take jobs away from Japanese (even though NJ were brought in as official policy during Japan’s labor shortage to do the dirty jobs Japanese don’t want in the 3K sector; oh, never mind — facts don’t matter to these people).<\/p>\n

Nasty ideology seeing the light of day these days in Japan. Are there still people not becoming alarmed yet? The stuff coming out of the mainstream political parties involving constitutional revisions<\/a> is even scarier.<\/p>\n

Other election watchers seeing stuff that’s bothering them are welcome to contribute (don’t forget links. Here’s Shinpuu’s<\/a>). Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suzuki Nobuyuki, a candiate for Tokyo in the Upper House for the far-right Restoration Party Shinpuu (New Winds, not to be (easily) confused with Ishihara’s Restoration party), calls for the end of relations with Korea, and an end to immigration (imin). Oh, and he also wants Japan to rearm itself with nuclear weapons (kakubusou) — now that’s even fodder for Japan’s increasingly isolationist future.<\/p>\n

Here’s his newspaper blurb (click on image to expand in your browser): It has the typical right-wing tropes about a strong country with sufficient autonomy to defend itself from Chinese invasion, defending Japan’s honor by weeding out “masochistic” (jigyaku) history from education and reestablishing the family unit along traditional lines (no doubt meaning bringing back the Ie Seido), returning Japan to its status as the “world’s safest country” by bringing back the “world’s safest energy source,” nuclear power, and kicking out immigrants so they don’t take jobs away from Japanese (even though NJ were brought in as official policy during Japan’s labor shortage to do the dirty jobs Japanese don’t want in the 3K sector; oh, never mind — facts don’t matter to these people). Nasty ideology seeing the light of day these days in Japan. Are there still people not becoming alarmed yet? The stuff coming out of the mainstream involving constitutional revisions is even scarier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,22,34,52,12,14,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-hate-speech","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}