Shimin Network

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Shimin Network ( Japanese 市民 ネ ッ ト ワ ー ク , shimin nettowāku , "Citizen Network [e]") is an abbreviation for a series of politically active, local citizens 'movements in Japan that are part of the Zenkoku Shimin Seiji Network ( 全国 市民 政治 ネ ッ ト ワ ー ク , Citizens' Policy "Nationwide network [s [e] ”, English Japan People's Political Network ). It has its roots in the local consumer protection groups and consumer cooperatives that emerged as a reaction to the industrial scandals of the 1950s to 1970s, the so-called "proxy movement" ( 代理人 運動 , dairinin undō , often translated as this - the Japanese term, because of the constant nomination of women) is neutral). Especially in the greater Tokyo area, the local Shimin Network , in some prefectures under the name Seikatsusha Network or just Network Undo ("network movement"), are represented in several prefectural parliaments and at the local level. At the national level it worked partly with the Democratic Party .

The movement was formed in 1977 as Group Seikatsusha in Tokyo and was able to win its first mandate in 1979 in the local elections in Tokyo's Nerima district . Similar groups later formed in the east of Kantō, in Hokkaidō and in the north of Kyūshū. She achieved electoral successes, especially from the late 1980s and more recently, in the mayoral election of the city of Kunitachi in 1999, which was won by the former Seikatsusha Network chairman Hiroko Uehara, and in the 2001 general election in Tokyo , when she won six of the 127 seats won. At least in Tokyo Prefecture, the rules are a rotation principle (maximum of three terms of office), the submission of expense allowances / diets to the election campaign fund and the contest of election campaigns exclusively through the joint campaign fund and volunteers.

In 2011 there are ten member organizations of the national association, in the prefectures of Hokkaidō , Tokyo , Kanagawa , Chiba , Saitama , Nagano , Fukuoka and Kumamoto and in the cities of Yokohama and Tsukuba .

literature

  • Peter J. Hartmann: Consumer Cooperatives in Japan: Alternative or Mirror Image of Society? Developments and structures using the example of Osaka prefecture. Iudicum Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-89129-507-3
  • Robin M. LeBlanc: Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. University of California Press, 1999. Chapter 5: Toward a "Housewively" Movement. The Seikatsu Club Co-Op's Daily Life Politics.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tōkyō Seikatsusha Network: Three Rules