{"id":5955,"date":"2010-02-13T01:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2010-02-13T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:07:09","slug":"kyodo-mainichi-14-prefectures-now-oppose-nj-pr-suffrage-debito-org-names-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"Kyodo & Mainichi: 14 prefectures now oppose NJ PR suffrage (Debito.org names them)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here we have Japan’s version of the US opposition “Tea Parties”, with some prefectural assemblies (most rural and apparently LDP-strongholded) coming out in opposition to giving NJ with PR the vote in local elections. \u00a0(Debito.org, unsurprisingly, is in favor of granting suffrage; reasons passim here<\/a>.) \u00a0The interesting thing is, when has the media granted much attention to what the prefectures think before about national policies? \u00a0They certainly didn’t when it came to a decade of requests from lots of city governments, after the Hamamatsu Sengen, to make life easier for their NJ residents<\/a>. \u00a0Oh, that’s right. \u00a0It’s not business as usual since the LDP is not in power. \u00a0Plus it looks like the Cabinet may actually help pass a law to do something nice for foreigners. \u00a0 How dare they!<\/p>\n

Anyway, name and shame. \u00a0These are the prefectures you should write to to say you’re unimpressed by their lack of tolerance:<\/p>\n

Akita, Yamagata, Chiba, Ibaraki, Toyama, Ishikawa, Shimane, Kagawa, Oita, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto, plus Saitama and Niigata.<\/p>\n

Source in Japanese below. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

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14 prefectures oppose allowing foreigners to vote in local elections
\nJapanToday.com\/Kyodo News Tuesday 09th February, 07:52 AM JST<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/politics\/view\/14-prefectures-oppose-allowing-foreigners-to-vote-in-local-elections<\/a>
\nCourtesy of MMT, John in Yokohama, and Cleo<\/p>\n

TOKYO \u2014 Local assemblies in 14 of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures have adopted statements in opposition to giving permanent foreign residents in Japan the right to vote in local elections since the Democratic Party of Japan took power last year, a Kyodo News tally showed Monday.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

[Those open-minded prefectures are: Akita, Yamagata, Chiba, Ibaraki, Toyama, Ishikawa, Shimane, Kagawa, Oita, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto, plus Saitama and Niigata]<\/p>\n

Before the launch last September of the new government under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who supports granting local suffrage, 31 prefectural assemblies took an affirmative stance, but six of them have turned against it since then.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The results underscored growing opposition to the government\u2019s policy, with local assembly members, including those belonging to the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, pressing for the adoption of statements of opposition in prefectural assemblies.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Japanese government is considering formulating a bill that will grant local suffrage to permanent residents in Japan, and DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa has expressed the hope that such a bill will pass through parliament in the current Diet session.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

But reservations remain within the DPJ-led coalition government about the idea, with collation partner People\u2019s New Party President Shizuka Kamei reiterating his opposition last week.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Explaining the reason behind the Chiba prefectural assembly\u2019s opposition, Naotoshi Takubo, secretary general of the LDP\u2019s local branch in Chiba, said the change of government made it more likely than before that a law will be enacted to accept local suffrage.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018The political situation has changed and we now have a sense of danger for the Hatoyama administration,\u2019\u2019 he said. The Chiba assembly adopted a supporting statement in 1999 when the coalition government between the LDP and the New Komeito party was launched.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

An LDP member of the Ishikawa prefectural assembly expressed a similar view, saying the assembly had been supportive because giving permanent residents the right to vote was not \u2018\u2018realistic\u2019\u2019 before.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Akita prefectural assembly, which adopted its opposing statement after the change of government, said that \u2018\u2018a national consensus has not been built at all.\u2019\u2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Kagawa prefectural assembly says in its statement that foreign residents should be nationalized [sic] <\/span><\/span> first to obtain the right to vote.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The issue of local suffrage for permanent foreign residents in Japan came under the spotlight in 1995 after the Supreme Court said the Constitution does not ban giving the right to vote to foreign nationals with permanent resident status in local elections.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Since 1998, the DPJ, the New Komeito party and the Japanese Communist Party have submitted local suffrage bills, but their passage was blocked by the then ruling LDP.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Japan does not allow permanent residents with foreign nationality, such as those of Korean descent, to vote in local elections, let alone in national elections, despite strong calls among such residents for the right to vote on the grounds that they pay taxes as local residents.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Residents of Korean descent comprise most of the permanent foreign residents in Japan.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Japan grants special permanent resident status to people from the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan who have lived in the country since the time of Japan\u2019s colonial rule over the areas, and to their descendants.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Kyodo: Local assemblies in 14 of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures have adopted statements in opposition to giving permanent foreign residents in Japan the right to vote in local elections since the Democratic Party of Japan took power last year, a Kyodo News tally showed Monday.<\/p>\n

Before the launch last September of the new government under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who supports granting local suffrage, 31 prefectural assemblies took an affirmative stance, but six of them have turned against it since then.<\/p>\n

(Those open-minded prefectures are: Akita, Yamagata, Chiba, Ibaraki, Toyama, Ishikawa, Shimane, Kagawa, Oita, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto, plus Saitama and Niigata)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26,14,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","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=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}