{"id":12613,"date":"2014-09-07T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T23:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2015-01-07T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:34:42","slug":"jt-conservative-party-to-submit-bill-halting-welfare-for-needy-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12613","title":{"rendered":"JT: Ishihara and Hiranuma’s conservative party to submit bill halting welfare for needy NJ a la July Supreme Court decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 In a show of xenophobia mixed with outright meanness, Japan’s political dinosaurs (we all know what a nasty person Ishihara Shintaro<\/a> is, but remember what kind of a bigot Hiranuma Takeo<\/a> is too) will propose legislation that will officially exclude NJ taxpayers down on their luck from receiving the benefits to social welfare that they have paid into.\u00a0 Put simply, they are seeking to legislate theft.\u00a0 Oh, and just in case you think “if you want equal rights in Japan, you should naturalize<\/a>“, they’ve thought of that too, and according to the article below are calling for naturalization to become more stringent as well.<\/p>\n

This is on the heels of a dumbfoundingly stupid Supreme Court decision last July<\/a> that requires Japanese citizenship for access to public welfare benefits.\u00a0 I’ve heard people say that all this decision did was clarify the law<\/a>, and that it won’t affect the local governments from continuing to be more humanitarian<\/a> towards foreign human residents.\u00a0 But you see, it HAS affected things — it’s now encouraged rightists to codify more exclusivity, not leftists more inclusivity.\u00a0 In this currently far-right political climate in Japanese politics and governance<\/a>, more exclusionism, not less, will become normalized, as long as the mindsets and actions of these horrible old men are allowed to pass without comment or critique.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s one reason Debito.org is here — comment and critique — and we say that these old bigots should have their legacy denied.\u00a0 But remember, it’s not as simple as waiting for the Old Guard to die off (Nakasone Yasuhiro<\/a>, remember, is still alive and pretty genki at age 96), because a new generation of conservative elites are waiting like a row of shark’s teeth to replace the old<\/a>.\u00a0 Be aware of it, and tell your voting Japanese friends about how this affects you.\u00a0 Because no-one else can with such conviction.\u00a0 You must do all that you can so your legacy, not theirs, wins.\u00a0 Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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THE JAPAN TIMES: NATIONAL<\/strong>
\n Conservative party to submit bill halting welfare for needy foreigners<\/strong>
\n BY MIZUHO AOKI, STAFF WRITER<\/strong>
\n AUG 26, 2014, courtesy of john k and pku<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2014\/08\/26\/national\/conservative-party-submit-bill-halting-welfare-needy-foreigners\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Jisedai no To (Party for Future Generations) said Tuesday it plans to submit a revised bill to the extraordinary Diet session this fall to exclude poverty-stricken non-Japanese residents from receiving welfare benefits.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The opposition party, launched this month by conservative lawmakers including former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, said the public assistance law should be revised in accordance with the recent landmark ruling by the Supreme Court that permanent residents of Japan are not entitled to welfare benefits for financially needy people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the ruling, it is (our duty) to revise the public assistance law,\u201d Hiroshi Yamada, the secretary-general of the party, told a news conference in Tokyo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless of whether foreign residents pay taxes in Japan or not, the public assistance law is only for \u201cJapanese nationals,\u201d he stressed. Another law should be created to deal with foreigners, he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court ruled in July that permanent foreign residents of Japan are ineligible for welfare benefits, in response to a lawsuit filed by an 82-year-old Chinese woman with permanent residency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The public assistance law stipulates that only Japanese nationals are eligible to receive the welfare payments. Even so, municipalities have been providing welfare benefits, such as monthly stipends for living expenses and housing, to financially needy foreigners with permanent or long-term residency status for years.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This practice was based on advice issued by the central government in 1954 to accept applications from foreigners in dire need of aid from a \u201chumanitarian\u201d point of view.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The conservative opposition party, headed by Takeo Hiranuma, was officially established on Aug. 1 after breaking from Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party). Its basic policies, unveiled in July, include denying non-Japanese residents the right to vote in national or local elections as well as introducing stricter standards for foreigners to obtain citizenship.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a show of xenophobia mixed with outright meanness, Japan’s political dinosaurs (we all know what a nasty person Ishihara Shintaro is, but remember what kind of a bigot Hiranuma Takeo is too) will propose legislation that will officially exclude NJ taxpayers down on their luck from receiving the benefits to social welfare that they have paid into. Put simply, they are seeking to legislate theft. Oh, and just in case you think “if you want equal rights in Japan, you should naturalize”, they’ve thought of that too, and according to the article below are calling for naturalization to become more stringent as well.<\/p>\n

This is on the heels of a dumbfoundingly stupid Supreme Court decision last July that requires Japanese citizenship for access to public welfare benefits. I’ve heard people say that all this decision did was clarify the law, and that it won’t affect the local governments from continuing to be more humanitarian towards foreign human residents. But you see, it HAS affected things — it’s now encouraged rightists to codify more exclusivity, not leftists more inclusivity. In this currently far-right political climate in Japanese politics and governance, more exclusionism, not less, will become normalized, as long as the mindsets and actions of these horrible old men are allowed to pass without comment or critique. <\/p>\n

Well, that’s one reason Debito.org is here — comment and critique — and we say that these old bigots should have their legacy denied. But remember, it’s not as simple as waiting for the Old Guard to die off (Nakasone Yasuhiro, remember, is still alive and pretty genki at age 96), because a new generation of conservative elites are waiting like a row of shark’s teeth to replace the old. Be aware of it, and tell your voting Japanese friends about how this affects you. Because no-one else can with such conviction. You must do all that you can so your legacy, not theirs, wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,12,37,14,56,11,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-injustice","category-japanese-politics","category-nj-legacies","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","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=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}