Anti foreigner voters rights demo in Tokyo

Right-wing politicians and supporters demonstrating in Shibuya against the Democratic Party of Japan`s plan to give local election voting rights to foreigners that hold permanent resident visa status. As part of its election manifesto the DPJ promised to think positively on granting voters rights to the more than 900,000 foreign permanent residents in Japan, right wingers and many ordinary Japanese oppose this move as they fear Korean and Chinese residents of Japan, many of whom were born there yet have not been able to become naturalized citizens, will vote in a anti-Japanese way and question their allegiance to Japan. A timetable for the bill to grant voters rights was delayed by Prime Minister Hatoyama recently. Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan November 28th 2009