Korean residents visit Diet to demand voting rights

TOKYO, Japan - About 100 members of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan walk to the offices of Diet members in Tokyo on Oct. 4 to press them to enact during the current session a bill giving permanent foreign residents of Japan the right to vote in local elections. Such a bill has been tabled in the legislature, but some members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party strongly oppose the idea.

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