Japan city drops plan to recognize foreigners as local citizens after opposition

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1. Uyoku Dantai probably relishing this is as a major win.

2. All cities and towns globally should be recognising longer term residents without national citizenship in their local democratic processes otherwise you end up with really twisted situations where local cities with high numbers of non-national’s needs not being meet with local services, and reflective age imbalances of needs and things like that.

   This is playing out in Berlin right now where the larger German populations on the outskirts can elect a right wing city authority that immediately stops cycle infrastructure investment in a left leaning city because many of the residents living more centrally that are younger aren’t German and can’t vote in the city-state elections, even if they’ve been living in the city five or ten years and have children.

3. so not tax? Yes?

4. W

5. Lol, they think they’re people.

   (Guys, I’m joking obviously — but none of this should be a surprise)

6. Taxation without representation.

7. There was an attempt… to be more inclusive (and possibly help to halt the dropping population).

   The government keeps trying to make the place more open and welcome for gaijin, but the people are having none of it.

   Maybe some education curriculum and media content reforms are necessary.