{"id":8102,"date":"2010-12-21T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T23:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2010-12-21T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T23:18:02","slug":"fukui-city-now-requiring-japanese-language-for-nj-taxpayer-access-to-public-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8102","title":{"rendered":"Fukui City now requiring J language ability for NJ taxpayer access to public housing. Despite being ruled impermissible by Shiga Guv in 2002."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Word broke out this month that Fukui City is now requiring Japanese language ability from NJ taxpayers before they can be allowed into public housing run by the government. Comment from me follows news articles.<\/p>\n

A blogger writes, courtesy of PB:<\/p>\n

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Nihongo needed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last April the city of Fukui adopted a \u201cguideline\u201d in its municipal public housing regulations that stated non-Japanese who applied for low-income housing must be able to \u201ccommunicate in Japanese.\u201d Applications for those who cannot will not be accepted. Since then various groups that work with foreigners in Japan have protested the guideline, but it still stands. Some of these groups have said that they are aware that some non-Japanese applicants, though they qualify for public housing otherwise, have been prevented from applying for housing due to the new guideline.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are nine cities in Fukui Prefecture, but only Fukui City has such a rule. The city official in charge of public housing told a local newspaper that his office had received complaints from community associations (jichikai) of individual public housing complexes. These associations said that some non-Japanese residents were unable to communicate \u201cvery well\u201d in Japanese, and thus it was difficult for them to understand and follow association rules regarding the \u201csorting of refuse\u201d and \u201cnoise.\u201d For that reason, the city government adopted this new guideline.<\/em><\/p>\n

The criteria for acceptance in public housing is that the applicant\u2019s income be below a certain level, that the applicant lives with \u201cother family members,\u201d and that the applicant has not been remiss or delinquent in paying his or her local taxes. Until April the only rules regarding non-Japanese applicants are that they possess either permanent resident status, \u201cspecial\u201d resident status (tokubetsu eijusha, usually people of Korean or Chinese nationality who have lived in Japan since birth), or permission to reside in Japan for at least three years. Now they also must have \u201cJapanese communication ability.\u201d However, there is nothing in the guideline that specifies how this ability to speak Japanese is to be assessed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Public Housing Law does not stipulate Japanese language ability as a requirement, but an official with the Construction Ministry told the newspaper that \u201cindividual regions can adopt their own criteria\u201d and \u201clocal governments should make their own judgments\u201d regarding how the law should be applied, so there is nothing legally wrong with the Fukui guideline…<\/em><\/p>\n

Rest at http:\/\/catforehead.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/19\/nihongo-needed\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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AH adds:<\/p>\n

December 20, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Debito, I’ve just seen this in the Spanish language press. It’s the first time I’ve heard of a local council putting a language condition on getting public housing. NJ also have to be Zainichi, permanent residents or at least registered in Fukui for more than three years. According to the council, three foreigners have got into public housing since this was introduced in April this year. I expect there’s something out there in English or Japanese, but it was news to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cheers, keep up the good work!<\/em> AH<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

Fukui prohibe ingreso de extranjeros que no hablen japon\u00e9s en sus viviendas municipales<\/strong><\/p>\n

El municipio de la ciudad expuso como razones para tomar la discriminatoria decisi\u00f3n \u201cproblemas como el ruido y la manera de tirar la basura\u201d.<\/strong>
\nInternational Press Publicado en 20\/12\/2010 17:31
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El municipio de Fukui de la provincia de Fukui impide que extranjeros que no hablen japon\u00e9s alquilen una vivienda municipal, inform\u00f3 el diario Fukui Shimbun. El controvertido requisito que rechaza la entrada de extranjeros comenz\u00f3 a aplicarse desde abril del 2010 aduciendo \u201cproblemas como el ruido y la manera de tirar la basura\u201d. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

La ciudad de Fukui es el \u00fanico lugar de la provincia que tiene este requisito y el diario local confirm\u00f3 que exist\u00edan personas extranjeras que no pudieron optar a una vivienda municipal por no cumplir este requisito. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nobuo Kubo, jefe de la Secci\u00f3n de la Pol\u00edtica de Vivienda Municipal del Municipio de Fukui, dijo: \u201cEl requisito se aplica despu\u00e9s de haber tenido conocimiento de problemas entre residentes japoneses y extranjeros que no hablan bien el japon\u00e9s, a causa del ruido, la manera de tirar la basura y el incumplimiento de los modales\u201d. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Actualmente, para entrar en una vivienda municipal de la ciudad de Fukui se requiere vivir con familiares, tener un ingreso menor a una determinada cantidad (seg\u00fan el n\u00famero o la composici\u00f3n de la familia) y estar al d\u00eda en el pago del impuesto municipal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adem\u00e1s, desde abril del 2010 ha entrado en vigor la \u201cL\u00ednea B\u00e1sica de Tratamiento Administrativo para el Ingreso a la Vivienda Municipal\u201d, de acuerdo a ella, los extranjeros tienen que cumplir uno de estos tres requisitos: \u201ctener la visa permanente\u201d, \u201ctener la visa permanente especial\u201d o \u201cllevar m\u00e1s de tres a\u00f1os registrado en el Registro de Extranjer\u00eda del Municipio\u201d. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adem\u00e1s de cumplir uno de ellos, hay que ser \u201ccapaz de tener una comunicaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica con los vecinos\u201d. Fukui tiene 1.957 departamentos municipales, en 75 de estas viviendas moran familias extranjeras. Despu\u00e9s de estar disponible la nueva regla, han entrado tres familias extranjeras, seg\u00fan el municipio.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seg\u00fan el Ministerio de Justicia, en la ciudad de Fukui viven 4.214 extranjeros: 1.699 chinos, 1.174 coreanos, 364 filipinos, 356 brasile\u00f1os, 69 estadounidenses, 53 peruanos y otros.<\/em><\/strong>
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COMMENT<\/strong>:\u00a0 I’ve heard of this sort of thing happening before.\u00a0 Shiga Prefecture also banned NJ who do not “speak Japanese” from its public housing back in 2002<\/a>.\u00a0 However, the Shiga Governor directly intervened literally hours after this was made public by the Mainichi Shinbun and rescinded this, as public facilities (and that includes housing, of course) cannot ban taxpayers (and that includes NJ, of course).\u00a0 Whether or not the Fukui Governor will show the same degree of enlightenment remains to be seen.\u00a0 Maybe some media exposure might help this time too.\u00a0 Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogger: Last April the city of Fukui adopted a \u201cguideline\u201d in its municipal public housing regulations that stated non-Japanese who applied for low-income housing must be able to \u201ccommunicate in Japanese.\u201d Applications for those who cannot will not be accepted. Since then various groups that work with foreigners in Japan have protested the guideline, but it still stands. Some of these groups have said that they are aware that some non-Japanese applicants, though they qualify for public housing otherwise, have been prevented from applying for housing due to the new guideline.<\/p>\n

There are nine cities in Fukui Prefecture, but only Fukui City has such a rule. The city official in charge of public housing told a local newspaper that his office had received complaints from community associations (jichikai) of individual public housing complexes. These associations said that some non-Japanese residents were unable to communicate \u201cvery well\u201d in Japanese, and thus it was difficult for them to understand and follow association rules regarding the \u201csorting of refuse\u201d and \u201cnoise.\u201d For that reason, the city government adopted this new guideline.<\/p>\n

COMMENT: I’ve heard of this sort of thing happening before. Shiga Prefecture also banned NJ who do not “speak Japanese” from its public housing back in 2002. However, the Shiga Governor directly intervened literally hours after this was made public by the Mainichi Shinbun and rescinded this, as public facilities (and that includes housing, of course) cannot ban taxpayers (and that includes NJ, of course). Whether or not the Fukui Governor will show the same degree of enlightenment remains to be seen. Maybe some media exposure might help this time too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,12,4,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","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=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}