Staff writer
New Komeito and the Liberal Party will jointly submit a bill as early as this week to give permanent foreign residents the right to vote in local elections, New Komeito Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba said in a recent interview with The Japan Times.
Fuyushiba, a key policy coordinator of the tripartite coalition parties, has for years been promoting the establishment of such a law.
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