日本における外国人の地方参政権に関する一考察

抄録

In Japan, there are many arguments about the local suffrage of alien inhabitant. The fundamental human rights are guaranteed to all of the people by the Japanese Constitution. But this "all of the people" include alien, especially a foreigner or Korean living in Japan, or not, that is an important question. Early in this year, the most Japanese famous scholar with regard to this matters and former Justice of the Supreme Court shifted own doctrine from tolerance to prohibition. This difficult problem is not settled yet. In this article, I attempt to dissect several doctrines, to compare with the constitutions of the countries of the world, and to treat the local suffrage of alien inhabitant.