A Korean-Japanese legislator has been reelected to the Japanese Diet’s House of Councilors.

Shinkun Haku, who is a proportional representative from the Democratic Party of Japan, was reelected for a six-year term after winning some 110-thousand votes during the upper house elections on Sunday.

Haku, whose Korean name is Baek Jin-hoon, was born to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. He was first elected to the House of Councilors in June 2004, after acquiring Japanese nationality in 2002.

Haku, who is strongly supported by the Korean community in Japan, is seeking to pass a bill that would grant foreigners who have established permanent residency in Japan the right to vote in local elections.