by Toru Yamamori | Apr 17, 2015 | News
Kozo Yamamoto, a MP from the Liberal Democratic Party (the main ruling party), mentions to BIG as he was interviewed by an internet news. The Net IB News published the interview with Mr Yamamoto on 6 February 2015. The interview is about how far he has been influential for so-called ‘Abenomix’, the current government’s flag ship economic policy which is a mixture of financial easing and deregulations, and what is to be done next. In its 6th page, Mr Yamamoto briefly referred to ‘a basic income’. Although its usage rather loose and not exclusively unconditional BI, it is one of rare cases of mentioning BI among MPs from LDP. The interview is in Japanese:
https://www.data-max.co.jp/politics_and_society/2015/02/29918/0206_ymh_06/
by Toru Yamamori | Apr 16, 2015 | News
Seisyu Makino, a MP from the Democratic Party of Japan (the biggest opposition party), has made his endorsement of BIG public through his blog posts: On his post on 5th February 2015 entitled ‘towards rebirth of the world economy which was collapsed’, he argued in favor of an unconditional basic income. Having had comments from readers, he went further on his posts on 12th and 20th March both entitled ‘towards “the statement for abolishing poverty”’, he introduces several plans how to finance BI, and gave a quick overview what is going on for it in the world. All his posts are in Japanese:
https://www.seishu.org/20150205.html
https://www.seishu.org/20150312.html
https://www.seishu.org/20150320.html
by Toru Yamamori | Mar 8, 2015 | News
Yahoo Japan, a Japanese online news site features Basic Income. In the first article written by Toru Yamamori, he explains failure of the Japanese Social Security systems. The article also contains information on Guy Standing talk on Basic Income at the International Sociology Association in Yokohama.
Toru Yamamori, “Why Basic Income Now? Limitations of the Japanese Welfare State,” Yahoo Japan News, July 11, 2014.
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 24, 2015 | News
Tomoyuki Taira, former MP who has been vocal for anti-nuclear power plants, has recently started to advocate a basic income. He will organize an event where he will give a lecture on the concept on 10th March at Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. The language used would be Japanese.
Time and Date: 19.30-21.30, 10th March, 2015
Venue: Studio BEIDO Shimokitazawa F studio,
Basement, Iwaki Building, 5-8-14,
Daizawa, Setagayaku, Tokyo.
For the detail of the event see:
https://t-taira.net/blog/2015/02/310191.html
from https://www.t-taira.net/profile.html
(in Japanese)
by Toru Yamamori | Feb 16, 2015 | News
Greens Japan (Japanese Green party) endorsed BIG from its beginning in 2012. On 31st October 2014, A new political organization ‘E-Future Association [e-mirai-no-kai]’ was launched in Kyoto. This organisation is a loose umbrella entity for coming local election in Kyoto 2015 by the Green Japan, the Kyoto Seikatsusha Network, and citizens who do not belong to any political organization.
‘E’, part of their name, means two things: first the sound means ‘good’ in Japanese, and second it connotes their intention to facilitate ‘online-activism.’ They call this umbrella entity ‘platform’ and explains this ‘platform’ strategy was learnt from experiences of early stage of Green Party in Germany.
On 8th November, ‘E-Future Association’ had a launching event, where Yoshiko Kada, former governor of Shiga prefecture gave a talk, and two candidates for local elections were announced.
Uiko Hasegawa, the co-president of Green Party Japan, is also the co-president of this association Her interview on Basic Income by the BI News team will be translated to this site shortly.
The setting up of the platform is covered by Japanese News Paper:
Language: Japanese. “e-mirai-no-kai launched for the local election in Kyoto” [政治団体「ｅ未来の会」立ち上げ 京都で統一選候補推薦へ] Kyoto Shimbun News, October 31st, 2014.
The launching event is covered by Japanese News Paper:
Language: Japanese. “e-mirai-no-kai’s launching event in Kyoto”[左京で推薦 ｅ未来の会が結成集会]
Kyoto Shimbun News, November 8th 2014
