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Tokyo Governor Faces Outrage by Foreign Immigrants in Japan
Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, has been attracting people's attention because of his straightforwardness in policy. He was a former Congressman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and served as the Minister of Transportation.
As soon as he was elected Tokyo Governor, he addressed that he would alter Japan by changing Tokyo. Also, he announced a new tax over banks which had been taking advantage of writing off huge bad debts and evaded paying local income tax to the Tokyo Metropolitan government.
Now, his address at the ceremony to celebrate the birth of the Ground Force of the Self Defense Force caused a heated controversy. He remarked in his speech, "Now, Tokyo is facing repeated serious crimes that are being committed by third world people, foreigners that have illegally immigrated to Japan,
"If Tokyo is hit by a serious natural disaster, these people may cause a riot. The police force has its limit in power should this happen. There is a chance that I will have to ask the Self Defense Force to work on establishing order in Tokyo not only for saving people from the damage of the disaster."
The expressions Mr. Ishihara used, ' third world people' and 'foreigners' and that they were related to the possibility of 'a riot when a serious disaster hits Tokyo,' is causing a large criticism among foreign immigrants in Japan.
Tens of thousands of Korean who lived in Japan during World War II were killed on the basis of false information that Koreans might cause riots in Japan. It was a dark side of history of Korean people in Japan.
Also, immediately after World War II, the Japanese people described South Korean, North Korean, Chinese and Taiwanese peoples as 'third world people.' That expression is interpreted differently in connotation when 'the third world people' is used in international law.
Governor Ishihara's use of the expression outraged the associations of Korean and Chinese peoples in Japan. What Mr. Ishihara tried to address was the fact that there were 270,000 illegal immigrants in Japan and that crimes committed by them increased 25 times as much as 10 years ago. In recent years, their serious crimes targeting Japanese people have been increasing, concentrating in Tokyo.
Mr. Ishihara seemed to express his concern over the issue. It is understandable that he should have been more careful with his words. Problems of foreign people in Japan are complicated and are becoming increasingly difficult to resolve.
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