1Political Participation of Noncitizens in Japan: Continuity and Change in the 1990s

The 1990’s saw the growing importance of granting municipal voting rights and institutionalization of political participation of foreign residents in Japan. It was significant in the sense that old-timers and newcomers, who had been mutually isolated, first met together in the political arena. On one hand, resident Koreans actively cla nchisement, which can be regarded as formal manifestatio