Shinkun Haku

Shinkun Haku ( born December 8, 1958 in Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party and deputy in Sangiin, the upper house of the Japanese parliament.

Haku was born with the Korean name Baek Jin Hoon, the son of a South Korean father and a Japanese mother in the Tokyo district of Shinjuku. After graduating from Nihon University, he worked from 1985 Chosun Ilbo for a conservative South Korean newspaper with a strong anti- Japanese attitude for which he initiated the Japanese online edition, among others. In addition, he frequently commented on Korean topics on Japanese television. In 2003 he acquired the Japanese nationality - before 1985 saw the law this only for children of Japanese fathers before. In 2004 he left the Chosun Ilbo and turned to politics.

In the 2004 election Sangiin Haku approached via the proportional representation list of the Democratic Party, said his candidacy was supported by the lay Buddhist organization Rissho Kōseikai. He reached eighth place on the list and thus a secure mandate with over 200 thousand preference votes. In his first term, he served as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Committee on Economic and Industry and the Special Committee on the abduction issue. In 2010 Sangiin - election, he was re-elected in the proportional representation with 111,376 preference votes and thus number 15 on the Democratic list in 16 selected relatively scarce.

Haku is committed to, among other things, the right to vote for foreigners prefecture and municipal levels and better relations with South Korea. In 2008, he supported a bill of Deputies taro Kono for a more liberal citizenship law, which, according to the estimated 600 to 700 thousand Kono adults - would have legalized dual citizenship - Impossible in Japan de jure. In the long term advocates Haku similar to the current European Union for the creation of an Asian community.