Title Rights make might : global human rights and minority social movements in Japan / Kiyoteru Tsutsui

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) Contents Ainu : from a dying race to an indigenous people -- Zainichi (Korean residents in Japan) : from citizenship rights to universal human rights -- The Buraku Liberation Movement : from a Japanese minority group to an international human rights organization Summary "Rights Make Might examines why the three most salient minority groups in Japan all expanded their activism since the late 1970s and chronicles the galvanizing effects of global human rights ideas and institutions on local social movements. The prehistory of the three groups reveals that minority politics in Japan before the 1970s featured politically dormant Ainu - an indigenous people in northern Japan -, active but unsuccessful Koreans - a stateless colonial legacy group -, and active and established Burakumin - a former outcaste group that still faced social discrimination. Despite the unfavorable domestic political environment, the infusion of global human rights ideas and the opening of international human rights arenas as new venues for contestation transformed minority activists' movement actorhood, or subjective understanding about their position and entitled rights in Japan, as well as the views of the Japanese public and political establishment toward those groups, thus catalyzing substantial gains for all three groups. Having benefited from global human rights, all three groups also repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of global human rights principles and instruments. Drawing on interviews and archival data, Rights Make Might offers a detailed historical and comparative analysis of the co-constitutive relationship between international human rights activities and local politics that contributes to our understanding of international norms, multilateral institutions, social movements, human rights, and ethno-racial politics"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2019) Subject Human rights -- Japan Minorities -- Civil rights -- Japan Buraku people -- Civil rights -- Japan Koreans -- Civil rights -- Japan Ainu -- Civil rights -- Japan Social movements -- Japan POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Ainu -- Civil rights Buraku people -- Civil rights Ethnic relations Human rights Koreans -- Civil rights Minorities -- Civil rights Social movements SUBJECT Japan -- Ethnic relations Subject Japan Form Electronic book LC no. 2018031402 ISBN 9780190853143 019085314X 9780190853129 0190853123 9780190853136 0190853131

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