Talk:Human rights in Japan

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I cut the following part from the article,[edit]

because it only contains general information that can readily be found in the article Japan:

Japan (日本) is a parliamentary democracy based on its 1947 Constitution. Sovereignty is vested in the citizenry, and the Emperor is defined as the symbol of state. Executive power is exercised by a cabinet, composed of a prime minister and ministers of state, which is responsible to the Diet, a two house parliament. The Diet, elected by universal suffrage and secret ballot, designates the Prime Minister, who must be a member of that body. The most recent national elections were in September 2005. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the New Komeito Party make up the current coalition government headed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. The judiciary is generally independent.

The Self-Defense Forces are responsible for external security and have limited domestic security responsibilities. The well organized and disciplined police force is effectively under the control of the civilian authorities. However, there continued to be credible reports that police committed some human rights abuses.

In spite of a lengthy economic downturn, the industrialized, free market economy continued to provide the approximately 127,580,000 residents with a high standard of living and high levels of employment.

-- Mkill 02:43, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

— JIP | Talk 09:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]


Indigenous people: Ryukyuan & Ainu people[edit]

This section has the Ryukyuan people in the name, but they aren't mentioned in the section at all... If they are two names for the same thing, can someone edit the section to reflect that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.119.179.199 (talk) 22:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow[edit]

I'm suprised by the length of the article and this talk page. The front page is very badly organised. I think this page should be wiki liked from other relevant pages so more people visit this page. FWBOarticle

Major Issue[edit]

This section was written badly. The rest appear to be copied mostly from AI so it looks fine. FWBOarticle

Deprogramming in Japan[edit]

"In 2002, the courts declared "deprogramming" illegal in a case involving members of Jehovah's Witnesses. However, in 2003, the Supreme Court rejected the Unification Church's appeal in a case involving charges against the victim's family and the kidnappers for kidnapping and "deprogramming." In that case, the court determined that the bases of the appeal were not matters involving a violation of the Constitution. A Unification Church spokesman estimated there were 20 deprogramming cases during the period covered by this report; however, at the families' request, none of the cases were reported to the police. "According to a spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses, members are free to practice their religion without restriction. Other than one forced confinement in January 2005, which was reported to the police after the fact, there have been no reported deprogramming cases since 2003."U.S. Department of State, Japan, International Religious Freedom Report 2005, Section II. Status of Religious Freedom --HResearcher 00:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling, Grammar, Formatting[edit]

The article is full of spelling mistakes, English grammar mistakes, and it looks like entire portions were lifted verbatim from other texts. An effort should be made to perform a spelling check and proofreading, at the very least

Project Assessment[edit]

Wow. Obviously, a lot of content here, and a quick brief skim seems to indicate that the majority of it is worthwhile. But it needs some serious clean up. For a start, the heading "Major Issues" should not be followed by "Article 14 of the Japanese Constitution guarantees equality between the sexes...." without so much as an introductory sentence, let alone a separate sub-header for Gender Equality. Also, this really needs an overhaul for the overall format and style of the article. As it stands now, it's basically just a list of criticisms and problems - take a look at Human rights in Israel - this is the best article on Human Rights by country I've found out of the handful I've looked at. It breaks things down into clean, neat categories, describing good things as well as bad.

The question to be answered by this article isn't "What problems & issues does Japanese society face?" or "In what ways are human rights violated in Japan?". Rather, the questions should be "On a range of different factors, what is it like in Japan?" I fully admit that no matter what vectors one applies, there is a certain POV bias towards what it means to be a freer or better society, or what it means to be a society that respects and protects human rights, and what those rights are. But nevertheless, I think a good start would be to reformat this article to be more in-line with the sub-headed topics in Human rights in Israel and to go from there. We already have more than enough separate articles on Ethnic issues in Japan and a variety of other subjects - again, this shouldn't be a list of criticisms and problems, but an attempt to present both the good and bad sides of the freedoms and liberties of life in Japan. I would also like to know if the citizens of Japan have the right to own and bear arms. LordAmeth 22:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

get address[edit]

plese can i get address of foreign human rights office in japan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.43.196.35 (talk) 09:38, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edits by IP editor[edit]

I have removed the recently added section on Okinawa because it is heavily POV and uncited, especially the second part. The Japanese constitution allows self-expression. Maybe during the war some activities were restricted but I do not know of any controls at the moment on local culture. If anything they are promoted to encourage tourism. We need serious facts from credible sources and much more specific points. John Smith's (talk) 11:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Update tag[edit]

I added an update tag to the article due to the fact the a good majority of the data presented in the article is from old U.S. State Department reports, particularly the 2004 report that contain 2003 data. Barkeep Chat | $ 13:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sexual harassment section a direct copy from state.gov's Japan entry[edit]

Title says all. I am doing a research paper on this topic and so it jumped out at me that I was reading the exact thing here that I had just summarized in my paper. It is a word-for-word copy of the government page, linked to here: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41644.htm


Debollweevil (talk) 18:15, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found an interesting report that explains how forced confessions in Japan occur in a balanced out manner and a documentry on Japanese prisons.[edit]

I won't confirm everything advocates have been shoving out to the media(advocates have exaggerated in the past for political gain), but I was able to find balanced out report on forced confessions in Japan occur. The report claims that police have limited search powers and that as a result are more likely to fall back on confessions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20810572

I also found a documentry called Japan from Inside that explains the Japanese prison system in a while balanced manner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJp9nKaO7c4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger (talk • contribs) 23:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Found two reports that properly explain how deaths in prisons aren't fully examined.[edit]

I was doing research on deaths that occur in Japanese prisons and was able to find two reports that explain how prison deaths aren't fully examined.

This report is on how deaths in prison arn't examined to the fullest extent, and while it does leave room for questions(claims that many who died were said to have has psysical illnesses), it does create and prove the possiblity of how actual abuses can go unchecked: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)14321-8/fulltext#back-bib5

I also found a report from the US Department of State department that mentions that a special team investigation 1,566 prisoner deaths from 1993 to 2002 which claims that almost one-third of the cases involved suspicious circumstances. http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27772.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger (talk • contribs) 21:12, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Biased Article[edit]

I just wanted to voice my opinion that this article is incredibly biased in its format and content. The usage of "human rights" is incredibly capacious, and includes such things as "groping" and "school bullying." Such a definition of "human rights" is so broad, that it almost loses all meaning. Compare this to the article Human rights in the United States, which adopts a more structural approach towards "human rights."

At the same time, if you read this article, it almost seems like Japan has no respect towards human rights. Unlike the article on the US, there's very few mention about how the country has built very institutions to respect these rights.--146.151.119.141 (talk) 23:54, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Blanked "Dictatorship of older students in schools"[edit]

As many others have noted this article has many problems. I blanked this section because it seemed particularly bad, reading like something from a tabloid. Besides numerous English grammar problems the Japanese was also very strange - I'm not aware of any romanization system that would render 敬語 as "keego", and searching Google for "choo yoo no jo" (長幼の序) turns up just this articles and copies of it. --Polm23 (talk) 16:07, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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