is a Japanese
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
of the
Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the
House of Councillors in the
Diet (national legislature). A native of
Shinjuku, Tokyo and graduate of
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...
, he was elected for the first time in
2004
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Haku was born to a South Korean father and Japanese mother. At the time of his birth, both
South Korean nationality law
South Korean nationality law details the conditions in which an individual is a national of the Republic of Korea (ROK), commonly known as South Korea. Foreign nationals may naturalize after living in the country for at least five years and s ...
and
Japanese nationality law
Japanese nationality law details the conditions by which a person holds nationality of Japan. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the 1950 Nationality Act.
Children born to at least one Japanese parent are generally automaticall ...
imputed nationality solely by patrilineal descent, and thus he had South Korean citizenship rather than Japanese citizenship at birth, with the legal name Baek Jinhoon (백진훈).
[Japan does not permit multiple nationality, and South Korea only began permitting it in limited cases beginning in 2010.] In 2003, he renounced his South Korean citizenship to naturalise as a Japanese citizen.
Haku worked for the ''
Chosun Ilbo
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'', a South Korean newspaper, from 1985 to 2004, serving as its Tokyo bureau chief from 1994 onward. He left the newspaper to enter politics in 2004. In 2012 he was named Senior Vice-Minister in the Cabinet Office under Prime Minister
Yoshihiko Noda
is a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives (lower house) in the Diet (national legislature). He was named to succeed Naoto K ...
.
In the 2022 (
Reiwa 4) ordinary election for the 26th House of Councillors, he ran as a candidate of the Constitutional Democratic Party from a proportional district. White received the 8th place out of 20 proportional candidates, falling short of the party's proportional 7 seats and losing the runner-up election.
See also
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References and footnotes
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* in Japanese.
1958 births
Living people
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan politicians
Democratic Party of Japan politicians
Japanese politicians of Korean descent
Japanese people of South Korean descent
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Naturalized citizens of Japan
People who lost South Korean citizenship
Nihon University alumni
People from Shinjuku
Politicians from Tokyo
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