Gunma governor defends decision to scrap ‘nationality’ criteria for prefecture staff – The Mainichi

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1. “This could lead to voting rights for foreign residents,” here’s hoping!

   “Will they comply with Japanese law?” well if they will be gov’t staff…I suspect yes, they will comply with the law
   lol wtf kind of people say this stuff

2. > it plans not to appoint foreign nationals to management positions.

   So there’s no career path in there. Not attractive then.

3. “Will they comply with Japanese law?”

   Lol. From what I see in the news, Japanese people don’t comply with Japanese law.

4. I really think more attention needs to be paid to nuance when translating these articles. “We have no choice but to coexist (with foreign nationals) in a sound manner.” I am relatively certain the governnor didn’t use such shitty sounding language in Japanese. (I tried to read the Japanese original but you have to pay, and….yuck)

   Maybe I am wrong….but if I had to guess, I would assume he used “Shikata ga nai” in a tone of voice, meant to tell the people complaining like hey…stop fucking complaing, foreign people are here, get used to it.

   Not, resign yourselves to this, it’s the only choice we have.

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   I might be wrong, or just hoping there’s a little less racism in the world, but who knows.

5. This is almost a surefire win-win-(win). Skilled positions don’t fill themselves, as I doubt the hiring standards will be necessarily changing in any other way except removing this limitation. Public servant jobs are already able to screen out just about any lack of competency or knowledge base, which is why there’s an entire cottage industry of finishing schools and exam packages to prepare young grads for the process. They’ll get quality applicants. As for the people applying, I imagine they know perfectly well what they’re getting into, and are unlikely to be taking the piss and walk out unexpectedly. The pay doesn’t start out very well, and it’s an achingly slow process. So, those people that want it get their wishes, too.

   As for the third win, who knows, but meritocratic problem-solving doesn’t seem so bag, and in a few years there may be some excellent wash-back effects as you have a few pillars of the community being included in meetings that have otherwise lacked representation; this last part is me mostly talking out of my ass, but it might not be awful for people who are neither public servant applicants nor Gunma prefectural governors.