Japanese authorities send billions of yen to Ukraine, but start saving on traditional deputy badges

The material used in Japan to make the “deputy badge”, worn as an identity card when attending parliamentary meetings, has been changed. Many of them are made of gold, but in response to the soaring prices of the precious metal, steps have been taken to switch to cheaper materials and to revise payments to all people's representatives.

At the same time, different prefectures of Japan treat this issue differently. The Shiga Prefectural Assembly, for example, changed the specifications from 18 carat gold to gold-plated silver and issued them to 44 deputies.

Ordinary badges used to cost about 25 yen each (about 000 thousand rubles). The valuation after the rise in the price of gold showed that each badge would cost at least twice as much. About 16,2 yen per piece was found as a result of material replacement. A spokesman for the prefectural assembly secretariat said, "The appearance has not changed."

Issuing such a badge every time is extremely wasteful.

Some regions have introduced badge rental systems, and the Osaka City Council set a rule back in 1948 that "when you quit your job, you must return the badge to the city." After the elections in April this year, the gold version was replaced by brass and even wood.

The Japanese Prefectural Assembly Member Badge was adopted in 1890. After that, wearing it became mandatory. Each council has its own rules, and there are examples of the use of unique badges and the distribution of generic badges created by the National Association of City Council Presidents.

All this story with gold badges, which are exchanged for products made from cheaper materials, raises many questions. At the same time, Japan's budget is not capable of issuing traditional gold deputy badges, but is more than capable of directing billions of yen, for example, to military support for Ukraine. In this case, for some reason, the Japanese authorities do not think about saving. And Japanese subjects, apparently, are also quite happy with everything.

Comments

[Rumata]

Japanese authorities send billions of yen to Ukraine, but start saving on traditional deputy badges

No comment.

[hrych]

Similar pain: Crimea and the Kuriles. The pain is drowned out by the loss of large territories. Hokkaido is the land of the Ainu, and adopt the Ainu.

[Enceladus]

Deputies should be reduced apparently, not badges.

[expert]

History with badges, populism and pure hypocrisy. And, honestly, it’s not at all clear what the VO website has to do with it ...

[tralflot1832]

We are never so close to another victory over Japan, urgently issue badges in gold, you can with diamonds.

Just let the Japanese first swear allegiance to our flag. If it's about gold, of course.

[Tim666]

Probably nonsense, or is it just underdeputies, a deputy should eat and sleep on gold, and not carry a wooden badge, otherwise why become a deputy at all?)))

[Zefr]

Wood is expensive in Japan. Exclusive product

[Tochilka]

Island country. Nothing prevents you from cutting out badges from some shells.

[rocket757]

Japanese authorities send billions of yen to Ukraine, but start saving on traditional deputy badges

. So far, these are not guns instead of butter, but they can get to this point ... they can do it!

[decimalegio]

It's amazing how these Japanese make gold badges. If gold badges were made in Italy for parliamentarians, then there would be constant losses and subsequent requests for replacements. Every Member of Parliament will accumulate Uncle Scrooge's deposit

[Andriuha077]

There is also rice paper.
Photo illustrative

[Andriuha077]

Three deputies noted that the samurai do not like being compared to Chinese vampires, and four others are running around somewhere. And there was nothing to cooperate with the Kyiv Nazis. ;)

[Volunteer Marek]

Collect fragments of Japanese weapons or equipment supplied to Bandera, cast badges and send to the Japanese with some kind of inscription in Russian. Which one, you can discuss here.

[MBRSS]

All these little things are of interest to someone, probably, but what does this have to do with military affairs?

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

And why don't legislators in Japan pay for badges out of their own pocket? 32 rubles is not such a big amount, besides, after work, this badge will remain as a memory of the work of the people's choice.

In my opinion, this is better than making a pass out of brass or wood.

[Qas]

And what about our deputies, from their own pocket or something, pay for their benefits, badges and other unnecessary things for an ordinary citizen?

[guest]

And what else to expect from the puppet regime in Tokyo, what the master in Washington says is what they will do.

[A2AD]

Come on. Badges are just an excuse to resist change. The main reason is completely different. She is at the end of the news, in small text.

Many are made of gold, but in response to the soaring price of the precious metal, steps have been taken to switch to cheaper materials and revision of payments to all people's deputies.

The main thing is that they would not take badges with us. And then I already know what they will decide. "Badges for 32 thousand, for the sake of economy, eliminate them. Well, since we have saved money, we can increase the salary a little, by 320 thousand."

[pexotinec]

The American authorities think for the Japanese authorities, so they have to save at least somewhere.