In a ruling issued by the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court, an 82-year old permanent resident woman with Chinese nationality residing in Oita Prefecture was denied welfare benefits. The woman, who was born and raised in Japan, filed a complaint when her first application for benefits was refused by Oita City in 2008. The city later began disbursing benefits at its own discretion in accordance with a health ministry notification from 1954. The issue was narrowed down to focus on whether permanent resident foreigners should be eligible since the word used in the law is \u201ckokumin\u201d (citizens). The Oita District Court ruled that \u201cthe responsibility for guaranteeing a person\u2019s right to life lies with the country of nationality\u201d, but the Fukuoka Appellate Court overturned this ruling by stating, \u201cpermanent resident foreigners can be considered eligible for protection regardless of the working in the law\u201d. The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, in turn, overturned the Fukuoka court\u2019s decision. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 7\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a ruling issued by the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court, an 82-year old permanent resident woman with Chinese nationality residing in Oita Prefecture was denied welfare benefits. The woman, who was born and raised in Japan, filed a complaint when her first application for benefits was refused by Oita City in 2008. The city later began disbursing benefits at its own discretion in accordance with a health ministry notification from 1954. The issue was narrowed down to focus on whether permanent resident foreigners should be eligible since the word used in the law is \u201ckokumin\u201d (citizens). The Oita District Court ruled that \u201cthe responsibility for guaranteeing a person\u2019s right to life lies with the country of nationality\u201d, but the Fukuoka Appellate Court overturned this ruling by stating, \u201cpermanent resident foreigners can be considered eligible for protection regardless of the wording in the law\u201d. The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, in turn, overturned the Fukuoka court\u2019s decision. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 7\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81073","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}