Another Japan is possible : new social movements and global citizenship education

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Another Japan is possible : new social movements and global citizenship education

edited by Jennifer Chan

Stanford University Press, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-391) and index

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This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures-on the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areas-global governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youth-Another Japan is Possible examines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of the Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and the local-that is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how, in turn, local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groups-and to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective.

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@fmct:Contents @toc4:Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii Note on Conventions iii @toc2:Introduction: Global Governance and Japanese Nongovernmental Advocacy Networks 1 @toc1:Part I Global Governance @toc2:Introduction to Part I 000 @toc2:1. Global Governance Monitoring and Japan @tocca:Kawakami Toyoyuki, Advocacy and Monitoring Network on Sustainable Development 000 @toc2:2. Education, Empowerment, and Alternatives to Neoliberalism @tocca:Sakuma Tomoko, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society 000 @toc2:3. Building a People-Based Peace and Democracy Movement in Asia @tocca:Ogura Toshimaru, Peoples' Plan Study Group 000 @toc2:4. Tobin Tax, Kyoto Social Forum, and Pluralism @tocca:Komori Masataka, Association for the Tobin Tax for the Aid of Citizens, Kyoto 000 @toc2:5. Education for Civil Society Capacity Building @tocca:Fukawa Yoko, Pacific Asia Resource Center 000 @toc2:6. Community Development, Peace, and Global Citizenship @tocca:Takahashi Kiyotaka, Japan International Volunteer Center 000 @toc1:Part II Labor @toc2:Introduction to Part II 000 @toc2:7. Globalization and Labor Restructuring @tocca:Kumagai Ken'ichi, Japanese Trade Union Confederation 000 @toc2:8. Corporate Restructuring and Homelessness @tocca:Kasai Kazuaki, Shinjuku Homeless Support Center 000 @toc2:9. Gender, Part-Time Labor, and Indirect Discrimination @tocca:Sakai Kazuko, Equality Action 21 000 @toc2:10. Migration, Trafficking, and Free Trade Agreements @tocca:Ishihara Virgie, Filipino Migrants Center, Nagoya 000 @toc2:11. Neoliberalism and Labor Organizing @tocca:Yasuda Yukihiro, Labor Net 000 @toc2:12. Water, Global Commons, and Peace @tocca:Mizukoshi Takashi, All-Japan Water Supply Workers' Union 000 @toc1:Part III Food Sovereignty 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part III 000 @toc2:13. Agricultural Liberalization, World Trade Organization, and Peace @tocca:Ohno Kazuoki, No WTO--Voices of the Grassroots in Japan 000 @toc2:14. Multifunctionality of Agriculture over Free Trade @tocca:Yamaura Yasuaki, Food Action 21 000 @toc2:15. Citizens' Movement Against Genetically Modified Foods @tocca:Amagasa Keisuke, No! GMO Campaign 000 @toc2:16. Self-Sufficiency, Safety, and Food Liberalization @tocca:Imamura Kazuhiko, Watch Out for WTO! Japan 000 @toc1:Part IV Peace 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part IV 000 @toc2:17. "We Want Blue Sky in Peaceful Okinawa" @tocca:Hirayama Motoh, Grassroots Movement to Remove U.S. Bases from Okinawa and the World 000 @toc2:18. World Peace Now @tocca:Hanawa Machiko, Tsukushi Takehiko, and Cazman, World Peace Now 000 @toc2:19. Article 9 and the Peace Movement @tocca:Takada Ken, No to Constitutional Revision! Citizens' Network 000 @toc2:20. Fundamental Law of Education, Peace, and the Marketization of Education @tocca:Nishihara Nobuaki, Japan Teachers' Union 000 @toc2:21. Japan and International War Crimes @tocca:Higashizawa Yasushi, Japan Civil Liberties Union 000 @toc2:22. Landmine Ban and Peace Education @tocca:Kitagawa Yasuhiro, Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines 000 @toc2:23. Nuclear Disarmament, Advocacy, and Peace Education @tocca:Nakamura Keiko, Peace Depot 000 @toc2:24. Building a Citizens' Peace Movement in Japan and Asia @tocca:Otsuka Teruyo, Asia Pacific Peace Forum 000 @toc1:Part V HIV/AIDS 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part V 000 @toc2:25. HIV/AIDS from a Human Rights Perspective @tocca:Tarui Masayoshi, Japan AIDS and Society Association 000 @toc2:26. HIV/AIDS, Gender, and Backlash @tocca:Hy'd' Chika, Place Tokyo 000 @toc2:27. Migrant Workers and HIV/AIDS in Japan @tocca:Inaba Masaki, Africa Japan Forum 000 @toc1:Part VI Gender 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VI 000 @toc2:28. International Lobbying and Japanese Women's Networks @tocca:Watanabe Miho, Japan NGO Network on CEDAW 000 @toc2:29. Gender, Human Rights, and Trafficking in Persons @tocca:Hara Yuriko, Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons 000 @toc2:30. Gender, Reproductive Rights, and Technology @tocca:Ohashi Yukako, Soshiren (Starting from a Female Body) 000 @toc2:31. As a Lesbian Feminist in Japan @tocca:Wakabayashi Naeko, Regumi Studio Tokyo 000 @toc2:32. Sex Workers' Movement in Japan @tocca:Kaname Yukiko, Sex Workers and Sexual Health 000 @toc2:33. Women's Active Museum on War and Peace @tocca:Watanabe Mina, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace 000 @toc2:34. Art, Feminism, and Activism @tocca:Shimada Yoshiko, Feminist Art Action Brigade 000 @toc1:Part VII Minority and Human Rights 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VII 000 @toc2:35. A Proposal for a Law on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination @tocca:Fujimoto Mie, Japan Civil Liberties Union, Subcommittee for the Rights of Foreigners 000 @toc2:36. Antidiscrimination, Grassroots Empowerment, and Horizontal Networking @tocca:Morihara Hideki, International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism 000 @toc2:37. Multiple Identities and Buraku Liberation @tocca:Mori Maya, Buraku Liberation League 000 @toc2:38. Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Multicultural Coexistence @tocca:Uemura Hideaki, Shimin Gaik' Centre 000 @toc2:39. On the Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights of the Ainu @tocca:Sakai Mina, Association of Rera 000 @toc2:40. "I Would Like to Be Able to Speak Uchin'guchi When I Grow Up!" @tocca:Taira Satoko, Association of Indigenous Peoples in the Ry'ky's 000 @toc2:41. Art Activism and Korean Minority Rights @tocca:Hwangbo Kangja, Mirine 000 @toc2:42. Ethnic Diversity, Foreigners' Rights, and Discrimination in Family Registration @tocca:Tony L szlo, Issho Kikaku 000 @toc2:43. Disability and Gender @tocca:Hirukawa Ry'ko, Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International 000 @toc2:44. The UN Convention on Refugee and Asylum Protection in Japan @tocca:Ishikawa Eri, Japan Association for Refugees 000 @toc2:45. Torture, Penal Reform, and Prisoners' Rights @tocca:Akiyama Emi, Center for Prisoners' Rights Japan 000 @toc2:46. Death Penalty and Human Rights @tocca:Takada Akiko, Forum 90 000 @toc1:Part VIII Youth Groups 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VIII 000 @toc2:47. Experience, Action, and the Floating Peace Village @tocca:Yoshioka Tatsuya, Peace Boat 000 @toc2:48. Ecology, Youth Action, and International Advocacy @tocca:Mitsumoto Yuko, A SEED Japan 000 @toc2:49. Organic Food, Education, and Peace @tocca:Shikita Kiyoshi, BeGood Cafe 000 @toc2:50. "Another Work Is Possible": Slow Life, Ecology, and Peace @tocca:Takahashi Kenkichi, Body and Soul 000 @toc2:Conclusion: Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education 000 @toc4:Appendixes 000 List of Organizations 000 References 000 Index 000

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