human rights

From Suffrage to Prime Minister: Eight Decades of Milestones for Women in Japanese PoliticsINSIGHT | Oct 24, 2025

UN Human Rights Leader Nada Al-Nashif on the Need for an Active JapanINSIGHT | Jun 5, 2025

One Step Toward a Better Society Out of Adversity: A New Bill of Rights for and by Children of the SystemJAPAN LIFE | Apr 1, 2025

Vanishing Act: The Kishida Administration’s Disappearing Human Rights Adviser INSIGHT | Sep 24, 2024

Time to Outlaw LGBTQ+ Discrimination in JapanINSIGHT | Mar 27, 2023

Japan Accepts 74 Refugees in 2021 After Myanmar CoupINSIGHT | Jun 1, 2022

Japan’s Myanmarese Diaspora a Year After the Coup: Ongoing Worries for an Oppressed Homeland INSIGHT | Mar 30, 2022

Bolstering Japan’s Foreign Policy Image: Inside Kishida’s Human Rights DiplomacyINSIGHT | Feb 4, 2022

Human Rights and the Clash of Values in Postwar Japanese DiplomacyINSIGHT | Sep 29, 2021

Restoring Human Rights to Japanese Diplomacy: A Postwar PerspectiveINSIGHT | Sep 1, 2021

Japan Accepts 47 Refugees in 2020 as Applicants Fall by 60% Due to PandemicINSIGHT | Apr 30, 2021

A Japanese Perspective on the 2020 US Election: The American Experiment in PerilINSIGHT | Oct 13, 2020

Children Deprived of the Right to Learn About SexJAPAN LIFE | Oct 31, 2019

Japan Accepts Far Fewer Refugees than G7 PeersINSIGHT | May 14, 2019

Forced Sterilizations in Japan: The Push for JusticeINSIGHT | Aug 7, 2018

Hansen’s Disease in Japan: The Lingering Legacy of DiscriminationINSIGHT | Aug 17, 2016

Toward a Stigma-Free WorldINSIGHT | Jun 28, 2016

Supporting Children’s Entitlement to Family-Based CareINSIGHT | May 16, 2016