`MAJOR ISSUES`

Hansen disease sufferers

2019.06.26　 Breaking Down Walls of Stigma and Social Discrimination: The Long Journey of the Hansen's Disease Recoverers (2019)

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Women

2024.03.29　 "Returning Home" - Story of Nanay Magdalena（2024）

2023.09.30　 Filipino Migrant Women and Japanese Society - 40 Years of Interaction（2023）

2020.06.30　 Achieving SDGs through Local Ordinances（2020）

2019.09.23　 Single Female Workers in Osaka City: A Survey

2010.12.09　 Japan-Korea Exchange on Gender-Equal Society (2003)

2007.12.01　 Korea-Japan Symposiums on "International Marriage" and "Female Migrant Workers" (2007)

2006.12.04　 Japan Ranks 79th under "Gender Gap Index" of World Economic Forum (2006)

2006.06.12　 Amendments to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law Passed the Diet

2005.06.01　 Violence at Home [editorial] (2005)

1998.06.01　 The Voice of Japan's Working Women (1998)

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Ainu

2022.03.01　 Critiquing the Colonialist Origins of the New National Museum Upopoy（2022）

2019.06.23　 A Critique on the New Ainu Policy: How Japan's Politics of Recognition Fails to Fulfill the Ainu's Indigenous Rights

2015.09.30　 Right to Land and the Ainu (2015)

2015.09.30　 Beyond the Present Ainu Policy: emancipating the Ainu from subordination to Japan (2015)

2015.09.30　 Human Rights and Cyber Hate Speech: The Case of the Ainu (2015)

2008.08.03　 Japanese Government launched an "Advisory Panel of Eminent Persons on Policies for the Ainu people" - It plans to compile proposals next year

2008.06.07　 Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet of Japan recognize the Ainu as Indigenous People (2008)

2004.06.01　 Ainu People Today - 7 Years after the Culture Promotion Law (2004)

1997.09.01　 Japan and Multiculturalism (1997)

1996.06.01　 Report on a New Policy for the Ainu: A Critique (1996)

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General issues

2026.01.03　 UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Country Visit to Japan, 24 July to 4 August 2023（2023）

2025.07.02　 Human Rights and Housing Design（2025）

2024.09.30　 Understanding Statelessness （2024）

2024.09.30　 Youth for Sustainable Development（2024）

2023.12.27　 Call to Establish an NHRI and to Implement International Human Rights Standards in Japan（2023）

2023.06.30　 Government of Japan's Responses to Fukushima "Evacuees" under International Scrutiny（2023）

2023.06.30　 Critical Review of the Unko Human Rights Drill (2023)

2022.09.26　 Summer SDGs Festival for Youth（2022）

2021.09.01　 Stateless Second Generation Nikkeijins in the Philippines（2021）

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People With Disabilities

2024.03.01　 Soulful Resistance: A Poetic Journey of a Disabled Female Activist (2024)

2021.12.01　 Color Vision Diversity - Towards Wider Recognition of Color Vision Minority（2021）

2021.12.01　 Ensuring Inclusivity（2021）

2021.03.16　 Rapid Assessment: COVID-19 Impact on Persons With Disabilities*（2021）

2019.06.26　 Taking Action [editorial] (2019)

2015.11.04　 Marshall Islands: Developing Policy for Persons with Disabilities (2015)

2015.06.30　 Silent Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities in Bhutan (2015)

2015.06.30　 Persons with Disabilities in Vanuatu (2015)

2015.06.30　 Disabling Social Environment (2015)

2015.06.30　 Challenges Faced by Japanese Women with Disabilities and their Policy Proposals (2015)

2009.03.01　 Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Asia-Pacific (2009)

2009.03.01　 Bangladesh and Persons with Disabilities(2009)

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Police Abuse

2008.04.25　 Police Introduces Partial Recording and Videotaping of Interrogations on a Trial Basis

2008.03.17　 Prosecution Introduces Partial Recording and Videotaping of Interrogation on a Full Scale

2008.02.01　 Guidelines for Ensuring Appropriate Interrogations in Police Investigations (2008)

2006.06.08　 Prosecution Introduces Partial Recording and Videotaping of Interrogations on a Trial Basis (2006)

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Buraku Discrimination

2022.12.28　 100th Anniversary of the Suiheisha Declaration and the Suiheisha History Museum（2022）

2019.09.23　 Remembering the Past: Henomatsu Community

2019.06.19　 Law Against Buraku Discrimination (2017)

2014.06.30　 Minorities in Japan (2014)

2009.09.01　 LIBERTY OSAKA: Promoting Human Rights to All

2009.06.01　 Jiichiro Matsumoto: Peacenik? (2009)

2008.12.01　 International Workshop on Current Buraku Issues (2008)

2008.06.01　 Present-Day Buraku Discrimination (2008)

2008.03.30　 Present-Day Buraku Discrimination

2002.03.01　 Declaration of Human Rights in Japan

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Issues of Foreigners

2024.12.16　 Access to Remedy for Migrant Workers in Japan（2024）

2024.03.29　 Statement against the Introduction of New Procedures for Revocation of Residence Status of Permanent Residents*（2024）

2023.09.30　 Filipino Migrant Women and Japanese Society - 40 Years of Interaction（2023）

2023.09.30　 Miraculous Victory: Reflections on Seeking Refugee Status based on LGBTQ Persecution（2023）

2023.09.30　 Japanese Immigration Law in 2023: Changes and Issues（2023）

2023.09.30　 Being a Human Rights Commissioner in Japan（2023）

2023.06.30　 Zainichi Korean Human Rights Forum 2023 - The Rights of Ethnic Minorities（2023）

2023.03.31　 Segregation and the Health of the Non-Japanese（2023）

2022.09.26　 Viral Disruption and Labor Rearrangement:  COVID-19 and its Impact on the Procurement of  Migrant Healthcare Workers for Japan（2022）

2021.12.01　 International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men（2021）

2021.06.27　 Chosen-seki as Stateless Residents: Is Their Social Integration in Japan Possible?（2021）

2021.03.16　 Japan Platform for Migrant Workers towards Responsible and Inclusive Society（2021）

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SRHR

2026.05.29　 Advice for Teachers and Others Considering the Practice of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Japanese Schools

2026.05.29　 Where Japan Stands Now on SRHR: Focusing on Issues of Access to Safe Contraception and Abortion

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SOGI

2019.06.26　 Rights of Sexual Minorities in Japan: Policies and Recent Developments (2018)

2012.09.28　 Beyond Invisibility: Great East Japan Disaster and LGBT in Northeast Japan (2012)

2012.09.28　 Lost in Transition: Transgender People, Rights and HIV Vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific Region (2012)

2008.06.01　 Japan and Sexual Minorities (2008)

2008.03.30　 Japan and Sexual Minorities

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Prisoner Condition

2022.06.20　 "Ushiku"- Documenting Human Rights Violations in Japan（2022）

2012.06.29　 Death Penalty in Japan (2012)

2012.06.29　 Detention Centers and Prisons in Japan [editorial] (2012)

2012.06.29　 International Pressure [editorial] (2012)

2008.04.27　 Supreme Court of Japan Ruled that Rejection of the Legal Visit to the Witness Was Not Unlawful (2008)

2007.12.01　 Korea-Japan Symposiums on "International Marriage" and "Female Migrant Workers" (2007)

2006.01.16　 Law on Penal Institutions and Treatment of Prisoners Was Amended (2006)

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Children

2022.06.20　 Black Hole of Child Abduction（2022）

2020.09.30　 Young Women and Girls in "Pregnancy Conflicts"

2019.12.24　 Nepalese Children in Japan: Facing a Great Opportunity or an Uncertain Future? (2019)

2011.12.30　 The Hague Convention and Japan: Some Issues (2011)

2011.06.19　 Child-friendly Spaces in Japan: An Integrated Approach for Child Protection in an Emergency (2011)

2010.09.01　 Growing Up in the Interstice: Closing the Gap Between Cultural Identities (2010)

2008.06.08　 Supreme Court of Japan - Marriage Requirements for Parents of Children Born out of Wedlock for the Granting of Japanese Nationality: Nationality Act Deemed Unconstitutional (2008)

2007.12.01　 Regional Conference on Enhancing Child Protection through Database Development

2007.06.06　 Japan: Juvenile Law Amended Again (2007)

2007.06.04　 Japan: Child Abuse Prevention Law Amended (2007)

2007.04.01　 Supreme Court of Japan Denied Filiation through Surrogacy (2007)

2006.09.08　 Supreme Court of Japan Rejected Paternal Acknowledgment of a Child Born after Father's Death Using Frozen Sperms (2006)

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