{"id":11970,"date":"2013-11-10T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11970"},"modified":"2013-11-11T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:12:31","slug":"restoration-party-shinpuus-xenophobic-candidate-in-tokyo-katsushika-ku-elections-today-putting-japanese-first-before-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11970","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Party Shinpuu’s xenophobic candidate in Tokyo Katsushika-ku elections: “Putting Japanese first before foreigners”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0As Tokyo is having some elections<\/a> (or by this time of blogging, had; sorry), I thought it within the role of Debito.org to archive yet another example of xenophobia used as a campaign strategy.<\/p>\n

Xenophobic party Ishin Seitou Shinpuu<\/a> (Restoration Party New Wind) is up to its old anti-foreigner tricks again<\/a>. \u00a0This time, front and center, is a candidate for Tokyo Katsushika-ku<\/a>\u00a0by the name of Kaneko Yoshiharu, a former employee of Ishikawa Prefecture and former town councilor for O-i Chou in Kanagawa Prefecture, clearly skipping to the other side of Tokyo to rent an apartment and rally up a few fellow fearmongerers.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy\u00a0http:\/\/www.shimpu.jp\/chihon\/senkyo\/tokyo_katsushika\/kaneko73101001.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

His slogan, front and center: \u00a0“More than foreigners, Japanese are first!” (Gakokujin yori nihonjin ga daiichi!<\/em>), setting up a false dichotomy (the fact that foreigners can’t vote in the first place makes that clear). \u00a0He’s also calling for limits to foreign products being “dumped” (i.e., being sold overseas for lower than production cost or domestic pricing in order to capture market share<\/a> — which is kinda rich to say given Japan’s trade record<\/a>) and for a hardening of policy against Japan’s low birthrate (sorry, potential pun acknowledged). \u00a0He also wants (see below within his public statement) an end to “superfluous (kajou na<\/em>) support for foreigners”, whatever that means.<\/p>\n

In case you’re wondering whether anyone would have the courage to put this up on campaign poster walls (or wonder whether Japan’s election laws would allow for such divisive language), he does and they do:<\/p>\n

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(Courtesy RW, photo taken November 5, 2013 in Katsushika-ku, Tokyo)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you want to know more about what Kaneko wants done, have a look at this:<\/p>\n

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Courtesy http:\/\/www.shimpu.jp\/chihon\/senkyo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Keep an eye on this party, folks (http:\/\/www.shimpu.jpn.org<\/a>). \u00a0It’s the most brazen, but by no means the only xenophobic party of grumpy old Japanese men out there who want to jerk Japan’s political chain hard right<\/a>. \u00a0It helps to have somebody extremely hard-line so that other hardliners (such as Ishihara\/Hashimoto’s Japan Restoration Party<\/a> — without the New Wind) look milder by comparison. \u00a0Helps to normalize the invective. Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Tokyo is having some elections (or by this time of blogging, had; sorry), I thought it within the role of Debito.org to archive yet another example of xenophobia used as a campaign strategy.<\/p>\n

Xenophobic party Ishin Seitou Shinpuu (Restoration Party New Wind) is up to its old anti-foreigner tricks again. This time, front and center, is a candidate for Tokyo Katsushika-ku by the name of Kaneko Yoshiharu, a former employee of Ishikawa Prefecture and former town councilor for O-i Chou in Kanagawa Prefecture, clearly skipping to the other side of Tokyo to rent an apartment and rally up a few fellow fearmongerers.<\/p>\n

His slogan, front and center: “More than foreigners, Japanese are first!” (Gakokujin yori nihonjin ga daiichi!). He’s also calling for limits to foreign products being “dumped” (i.e., being sold overseas for lower than production cost or domestic pricing in order to capture market share — which is kinda rich to say given Japan’s trade record) and for a hardening of policy against Japan’s low birthrate (sorry, potential pun acknowledged). He also wants (see below within his public statement) an end to “superfluous (kajou na) support for foreigners”, whatever that means.<\/p>\n

In case you’re wondering whether anyone would have the courage to put this up on campaign poster walls (or wonder whether Japan’s election laws would allow for such divisive language), he does and they do. If you want to know more about what Kaneko wants done, have a look at this.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye on this party, folks (http:\/\/www.shimpu.jpn.org). It’s the most brazen, but by no means the only xenophobic party of grumpy old Japanese men out there who want to jerk Japan’s political chain hard right. It helps to have somebody extremely hard-line so that other hardliners (such as Ishihara\/Hashimoto’s Japan Restoration Party — without the New Wind) look milder by comparison. Helps to normalize the invective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,52,5,26,14,13,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970","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=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}