Asahi has begun a series leading up the upper-house election in Japan (29 July).
The story notes that Alberto Fujimori is indeed a candidate, as discussed here previously.
For the second day in a row, I am crediting Greg for a pointer to an interesting story that has a Japan–South America connection. As Greg notes regarding Fujimori’s eligibility: “if you order the torture and/or deaths of Peruvians but stay away from the Japanese, then you’re fine” to run, having not broken any Japanese laws.
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A few years ago, I spotted a news story that the first-ever non-Japanese-by-birth national had been elected to the House of Councillors. (To be precise, he filled a casual vacancy being runner-up on his party’s list).
Although Marutei (nee Maarti) Tsurunen (nee Turunen) was born a Finn, which means that (a) he is a distant forty-second cousin of the Japanese anyway (‘hey, you form the possessive by adding “-n”, we form the possessive by adding “no”, let’s all just get along…’) and (b) he would have been familiar with the “free list” electoral system from the Eduskunta.
[MSS note: Tom means the "open list" or what I have called "quasi-list" system of Finland. "Free list" usually refers to panachage, such as used in Switzerland, in which voters may make up their own lists of candidates from multiple parties. (I use the term "quasi-list" to denote the fact that it is not possible in the Finnish system for the voter to give a vote just for the list. The voter must choose a candidate, but all votes are pooled within the list that has nominated the candidate, and the candidate votes determine the rank order of election from the list. In addition to Finland, the quasi-list is also used in Chile and Poland.)]
Seed planted by Tom Round — 16 July 2007 @ 22:41
MSS is correct – sorry – my day for mistypings. I remember a book 20+ years ago – Lijphart? David Butler? – that had all known electoral systems in a tree chart.
Seed planted by Tom Round — 17 July 2007 @ 03:44