{"id":14116,"date":"2016-07-26T19:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T05:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2016-07-31T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:40:48","slug":"zaitokukai-xenophobic-hate-groups-sakurai-makoto-runs-for-tokyo-governorship-his-electoral-platform-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14116","title":{"rendered":"Zaitokukai xenophobic hate group’s Sakurai Makoto runs for Tokyo Governorship; his electoral platform analyzed here (UPDATED: he lost badly)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. As Debito.org’s second post on the upcoming July 31, 2016, Tokyo Governorship race<\/a>\u00a0(reasons why you should care about it are\u00a0here<\/a>),\u00a0I just wanted to cover the candidacy of the anti-foreign vote, particularly Sakurai Makoto<\/a>, “former leader” of the officially-certified xenophobic hate group Zaitokukai<\/a>. \u00a0Here’s his campaign poster:<\/p>\n

(All images courtesy of MS)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"SakuraiMakotoTokyoChijisenposter2016\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While this bullying berk<\/a>\u00a0hasn’t a snowball’s chance of winning, thank goodness, it’s still a bellwether of Japan’s general tolerance of hate speech<\/a> that a person like this would be taken seriously enough to allow a candidate who espouses hatred of whole peoples (and<\/a>\u00a0believe<\/a> me<\/a>\u00a0he’s<\/a> not<\/a> alone<\/a>, pre-hate speech law<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So let’s take a look at his party platform, since that’s what we do here (click on image to expand in browser<\/em>):<\/p>\n

\"SakuraiMakotoChijisen2016Platform\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, deep breath. \u00a0I’m only going to translate the headlines. \u00a0He’s running as an “unaffiliated” (mushozoku<\/em>) candidate, and his headline is putting “Japan first” and “returning Tokyo politics to Japanese nationals” (kokumin<\/em>) (a riff on one of PM Abe’s previous election\u00a0slogans).<\/p>\n

Here are the seven points of his platform:<\/p>\n

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  1. Abolishing “social welfare” (seikatsu hogo<\/em>) for foreigners<\/strong> (even though they’re also paying for it, and it’s not as though they’re really taking advantage of the system<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  2. Reducing the number of illegal foreign overstayers by half<\/strong> (even though according to the MOJ itself the number has\u00a0almost always been falling since 1993<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  3. Passing a law against hate speech against Japan\/Japanese<\/strong> (because of course those bullying foreign minorities shouldn’t be allowed to victimize that poor disempowered Japanese majority<\/a>!)<\/li>\n
  4. Increase taxes on facilities run by domestic minority Korean groups Souren and Mindan<\/strong> (because nothing spells equalized justice against minorities than targeted tax increases against them).<\/li>\n
  5. “Regulate” illegal gambling at [Korean] pachinko parlors<\/strong> (because after all, gambling is a naughty activity in Japan, except when it’s gambling on horse racing sanctioned by the JRA<\/a>, or motor boating, or bicycling, or Japanese-run pachinko parlors<\/a> etc.; you’d assume that if it was in fact\u00a0“illegal”, it would\u00a0already\u00a0be “regulated”… \u00a0Oh wait, this is suddenly “illegal” because it’s connected to Koreans, right?).<\/li>\n
  6. Suspending the building of Korean schools<\/strong> (because of course they’re proliferating like wildflowers across Japan).<\/li>\n
  7. Putting forth a more compact Tokyo 2020 Olympics<\/strong> (thrown in as an afterthought, because we’re not fixating on\u00a0foreigners, right?).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can read the fine print of his platform for yourself, but it all spells the need for some to launder their hatred through Japan’s\u00a0electoral process. \u00a0Let’s see how many votes this bully ultimately gets come August 1 (the last bully candidate we tracked here, Tamogami Toshio, finished dead last in his division<\/a>). \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

    ==============<\/p>\n

    UPDATE JULY 31, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

    According to\u00a0today’s election results (Asahi.com in Japanese<\/a>), turncoat opportunist (and hobnobber with xenophobes<\/a>) Koike\u00a0Yuriko\u00a0won\u00a0the Tokyo Governorship easily, receiving\u00a0more than a million votes over\u00a0the\u00a0officially-sponsored LDP candidate, who came second. \u00a0The anti-Abe candidate came in a distant third with less than half the votes of Koike.<\/p>\n

    Sakurai came an even more distant fifth, garnering\u00a0only 114,171 votes, or 2.08% of all votes cast<\/a>. \u00a0He ranked no better than single digits in any electoral district\u00a0of Tokyo-to<\/a>\u00a0(and in two districts less than 1%),\u00a0which is good news. \u00a0Even better news is that he fared much worse than extreme rightist militarist Tamogami Toshio, who got 610,865 votes in the previous 2014 Tokyo Gubernatorial Election, or 12.39% of all votes cast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    So keep wasting your group’s funds\u00a0on these elections, Sakurai. \u00a0It’s probably better than investing them in your hate rallies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    As Debito.org’s second post on the upcoming July 31, 2016 Tokyo Governorship race, I just wanted to cover the candidacy of the anti-foreign vote, particularly Sakurai Makoto, “former leader” of the officially-certified xenophobic hate group Zaitokukai. Here’s his campaign poster:<\/p>\n

    While this bullying berk hasn’t a snowball’s chance of winning, thank goodness, it’s still a bellwether of Japan’s general tolerance of hate speech that a person like this would be taken seriously enough to allow a candidate who espouses hatred of whole peoples (and believe me he’s not alone, pre-hate speech law). So let’s take a look at his party platform, since that’s what we do here. Here are the seven points of his platform:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,52,5,14,13,65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-hate-speech","category-human-rights","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-racist-images-in-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116","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=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}