{"id":14099,"date":"2016-07-19T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T02:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T01:28:50","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-tokyo-gov-candidate-koike-yuriko-allegedly-spoke-for-anti-foreign-hate-group-zaitokukai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14099","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile back in Tokyo: Gov candidate Koike Yuriko allegedly spoke at anti-foreign hate group Zaitokukai in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. For those who haven’t been following Japanese politics (recently it’s been a pretty dismal science<\/a>), there’s another race you might want to follow — that of the race for Tokyo Governorship on July 31, 2016. This matters, because Tokyo is 1) Japan’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, one of few with a still-growing population<\/a> (as Japan’s countryside continues to depopulate and die<\/a>) and even significant foreign resident enclaves; 2) a world city, cited by at least one international ranking system (Monocle, incidentally partially owned by a Japanese publisher<\/a>) as the world’s “most livable city”<\/a>;\u00a0and 3) the city with the highest GDP (according to the Brookings Institution, even adjusted for PPP<\/a>) in the world — in fact, according to the IMF, Tokyo alone is the ninth-largest economy in the world<\/a>, larger even than Brazil, and easily over a third of Japan’s entire GDP (at 36%).<\/p>\n

So who gets elected governor of this capital city area\u00a0should matter to the world. \u00a0And it has, at least to the world’s third-largest economy. \u00a0Tokyo set the trend for electing far-right xenophobic governors by electing (several times) Ishihara “I wanted a war with China<\/a>” Shintaro, who legitimized a xenophobic program within Tokyo environs<\/a> to the point where bullying of foreigners became normalized throughout Japan<\/a>\u00a0(see also book “Embedded Racism” Ch. 7<\/a>).\u00a0And with that, far-right hate group Zaitokukai<\/a> and similar groups became emboldened to hold anti-foreign rallies (some that advocated the “killing of all Koreans<\/a>“) on a daily basis in recent years<\/a>. \u00a0Not to mention that Tokyo is hosting the 2020 Olympics<\/a>. Given the degree of centralization of, well, everything that matters in Japan in Tokyo, as\u00a0Tokyo does, so does the rest of Japan.<\/p>\n

That’s why the Tokyo Governorship has been a controversial seat this century. \u00a0First, Governor Ishihara used it as a bully pulpit to justify destabilizing the rest of Asia<\/a>. \u00a0Then his hand-picked successor, former Vice-Governor and investigative writer Inose Naoki resigned after a payola scandal<\/a>. \u00a0His successor, TV personality and pundit Masuzoe Yoichi similarly\u00a0recently resigned after a payola scandal<\/a>. \u00a0Now the seat has become a referendum of the two leading parties, the waxing and right-shifting Liberal Democratic Party of PM Abe Shinzo, and the waning leftist Democratic Party still trying to recapture some momentum. \u00a0And into the breach has dived LDP former cabinet member Koike Yuriko<\/a>,\u00a0who may even be a favorite to win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But not so fast. \u00a0According to Zaitokukai<\/a>, Koike spoke at\u00a0their organization back\u00a0in 2010. \u00a0Koike is known as a person who flip-flops between parties and positions often<\/a>, but this is a bit too far for Debito.org’s comfort. \u00a0Is this the type of person that Tokyoites want? \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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FROM ZAITOKUKAI’S WEBSITE<\/a> (Courtesy EJ):<\/p>\n

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For those who haven’t been following Japanese politics (recently it’s been a pretty dismal science), there’s another race you might want to follow — that of the race for Tokyo Governorship on July 31, 2016. This matters, because Tokyo is 1) Japan’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, one of few with a still-growing population (as Japan’s countryside continues to depopulate and die) and even significant foreign resident enclaves; 2) a world city, cited by at least one international ranking system (Monocle, incidentally partially owned by a Japanese publisher) as the world’s “most livable city”; and 3) the city with the highest GDP (according to the Brookings Institution, even adjusted for PPP) in the world — in fact, according to the IMF, Tokyo alone is the ninth-largest economy in the world, larger even than Brazil, and easily over a third of Japan’s entire GDP (at 36%).<\/p>\n

So who gets elected governor of this capital city area should matter to the world. And it has, at least to the world’s third-largest economy. Tokyo set the trend for electing far-right xenophobic governors by electing (several times) Ishihara “I wanted a war with China” Shintaro, who legitimized a xenophobic program within Tokyo environs to the point where bullying of foreigners became normalized throughout Japan (see also book “Embedded Racism” Ch. 7). And with that, far-right hate group Zaitokukai and similar groups became emboldened to hold anti-foreign rallies (some that advocated the “killing of all Koreans”) on a daily basis in recent years. Not to mention that Tokyo is hosting the 2020 Olympics. Given the degree of centralization of, well, everything that matters in Japan in Tokyo, as Tokyo does, so does the rest of Japan. <\/p>\n

That’s why the Tokyo Governorship has been a controversial seat this century. First, Governor Ishihara used it as a bully pulpit to justify destabilizing the rest of Asia. Then his hand-picked successor, former Vice-Governor and investigative writer Inose Naoki resigned after a payola scandal. His successor, TV personality and pundit Masuzoe Yoichi similarly recently resigned after a payola scandal. Now the seat has become a referendum of the two leading parties, the waxing and right-shifting Liberal Democratic Party of PM Abe Shinzo, and the waning leftist Democratic Party still trying to recapture some momentum. And into the breach has dived LDP former cabinet member Koike Yuriko, who may even be a favorite to win.<\/p>\n

But not so fast. According to Zaitokukai, Koike spoke at their organization back in 2010. Koike is known as a person who flip-flops between parties and positions often, but this is a bit too far for Debito.org’s comfort. Is this the type of person that Tokyoites want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,10,14,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hate-speech","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","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=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}