“The number of foreign immigrants who don’t obey the rules is increasing,” argues the young voter Uta Kato. <\/p>\n
“The burden on citizens including taxes is bigger so life is getting more difficult.”<\/p>\n
Sanseito blames the government for policies that have allowed more foreigners into the country.<\/p>\n
“We are not promoting xenophobia,” the party’s founder, Sohei Kamiya, said at a news conference in June. “Japanese people feel unease and dissatisfaction because there are no established rules for accepting foreigners.”<\/p>\n
In another news conference he said: “Many citizens are frustrated that too much money is being spent on social security and education support for foreigners.”<\/p>\n
Welfare minister Takamaro Fukuoka – of the LDP – has rebutted the claim that the government is providing favourable medical or welfare benefits to foreign residents.<\/p>\n
Still, the message resonates with supporters. “Foreigners are scary. I’m afraid they may go on a rampage,” a 54-year-old Sanseito volunteer told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. When asked why he feared foreigners, he admitted that he had not experienced any direct harm from them.<\/p>\n
A 35-year-old homemaker attending a Sanseito rally with her husband and child told the paper: “Sanseito says things that other parties don’t say.”<\/p>\n
But the far-right party’s focus on foreigners doesn’t just apply to people seeking to live in Japan. Sanseito has another, more unusual target on its list: tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The number of foreign immigrants who don’t obey the rules is increasing,” argues the young voter Uta Kato.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-297433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}