Shinkun Haku

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Shinkun Haku
Japanese name
Kanji 白 眞 勲
Shinjitai 白 真 勲
Rōmaji after Hepburn Haku Shinkun
Baek Jin Hoon
Korean name
Hangeul 백진훈
Hanja 白 眞 勲
Revised Romanization Baek Jin-hun
McCune-Reischauer Paek Chinhun

Shinkun Haku (born December 8, 1958 in Shinjuku , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party and a member of the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese parliament.

Haku was born with the Korean name Baek Jin Hoon to a South Korean father and a Japanese mother in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo . After studying at Nihon University , he worked from 1985 for Chosun Ilbo , a conservative South Korean newspaper with a pronounced anti-Japanese stance, for which, among other things, he initiated the Japanese online edition. He also frequently commented on Korean topics on Japanese television. He acquired Japanese citizenship in 2003 - prior to 1985 the law only allowed children of Japanese fathers to do so. In 2004 he left Chosun Ilbo and turned to politics.

In the 2004 Sangiin election , Haku joined the Democratic Party's proportional representation list , with his candidacy being supported by the Buddhist lay organization Risshō Kōseikai . With over 200,000 preferential votes, he reached eighth place on the list and thus a secure mandate. In his first legislative term, he was a member of the Foreign and Defense Committee, the Committee on Economy and Industry and the Special Committee on the Abduction Question . In the 2010 Sangiin election , he was re-elected relatively narrowly in the proportional representation with 111,376 preferential votes and thus 15th place on the Democratic list with 16 elected; in the 2016 election for the newly founded Democratic Progressive Party, he was confirmed as the eleventh and last candidate with 138,813 votes.

Haku advocates, among other things, the right to vote for foreigners at the prefectural and municipal level and better relations with South Korea. In 2008 he supported a bill by MP Tarō Kōno for a more liberal citizenship law, which, according to Kōno, would have legalized an estimated 600 to 700 thousand adults with - in Japan de jure impossible - dual citizenship. In the long term, Haku advocates the creation of an Asian community similar to today's European Union .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reiji Yoshida: DPJ to support Korean pundit for Upper House. In: The Japan Times . February 4, 2004, accessed July 9, 2010 .
  2. ↑ 選 挙> 参 院 選> 参 院 選 2010> 開票 結果> 比例 代表 民主党 . In: Yomiuri Shimbun . July 11, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2017 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 選 挙> 参 院 選> 参 院 選 2016> 開票 結果> 比例 代表> 民進党 . In: Yomiuri Shimbun . July 11, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2017 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ Minoru Matsutani: Debate on multiple nationalities to heat up. Diet battle lines being drawn in wake of law change and amid Kono effort to rectify dual citizenship situation. In: The Japan Times . January 1, 2009, accessed July 9, 2010 .
  5. ^ Sarah Suk: DPJ's Korean for Asia unity, ethnic pride. In: The Japan Times / Kyōdō Tsūshin . July 6, 2004, accessed July 9, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Haku, Shinkun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 白 眞 勲 (Kanji); 백진훈 (Hangeul); 白 真 勲 (Shinjitai); Baek, Jin Hoon (Korean, self-novelization); Baek, Jin-hun (Korean, revised Romanization)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Shinjuku , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan