Town in Tokyo Rejects Plan Allowing Foreigners to Vote: Kyodo

(Bloomberg) — Local assembly members of Musashino, on the outskirts of Tokyo, rejected a proposal to allow foreign residents to vote in elections, Kyodo News reported. 

The ordinance, which would have allowed short-term foreign residents to vote, had been narrowly approved earlier this month, according to the Asahi.

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