{"id":6209,"date":"2010-03-17T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T00:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T00:49:12","slug":"list-of-countries-with-voting-rights-for-non-citizens-with-japan-of-the-group-the-absolutist-outlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"List of countries with voting rights for non-citizens, with Japan of the group the absolutist outlier."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Although the issue may be moot due to the DPJ suspending the submission of PR NJ suffrage “for the time being”<\/a>, here’s an essential fact of the case — what other countries allow non-citizens to vote, and at what level, as of 2006. \u00a0Click on the image to expand in your browser. \u00a0Courtesy of Dr SN.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, of the select countries (even the US has some local rights for non-citizens), only Japan is absolutist in terms of this sector of civil rights. \u00a0And the fact that the Japan-born Zainichi “generational foreigners” are also excluded makes Japan a further outlier. \u00a0Debito.org’s stance in support of NJ PR suffrage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Although the issue may be moot due to the DPJ suspending the submission of PR NJ suffrage “for the time being”, here’s an essential fact of the case — what other countries allow non-citizens to vote, and at what level, as of 2006. As you can see, of the select countries (even the US has some local rights for non-citizens), only Japan is absolutist in terms of this sector of civil rights. And the fact that the Japan-born Zainichi “generational foreigners” are also excluded makes Japan a further outlier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionism","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","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=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}