Japan

August 21, 2018

Japan: Protect Victims Enticed to North Korea

Japan should publicly urge the North Korean government to immediately allow ethnic Koreans lured to North Korea from Japan and their relatives to return to Japan.

Asia

August 21, 2018 News Release

Japan: Protect Victims Enticed to North Korea
Women's Rights

August 10, 2018 Commentary

“Bright Women Need Not Apply”

Teppei Kasai
Program Officer, Asia Division

Published In: Japan Times
Women's Rights

July 29, 2018 News Release

Japan's Not-So-Secret Shame

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May 5, 2016 Video

LGBT Students Bullied in Japan
May 1, 2014 Video

Japan: Children in Institutions Denied Family Life

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September 14, 2017

Following the Money

Lack of Transparency in Donor Funding for Syrian Refugee Education
May 5, 2016

“The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”

LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese Schools
May 1, 2014

Without Dreams

Children in Alternative Care in Japan

News

September 9, 2018 Letter

Letter to Foreign Minister of Japan Kono on Vietnam visit
June 30, 2018 Amicus Briefing

Human Rights Watch’s public comment to the Tokyo Municipal Government on its “Outline: Tokyo metropolitan government regulation proposals to fulfill and uphold human rights values stated in the Olympic Charter ”
June 20, 2018 Dispatches

Japan’s School Uniform Shift Will Help LGBT Students

Kyle Knight
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
May 27, 2018 News Release

Japan: Urge Vietnam to Respect Human Rights
March 21, 2018 Dispatches

Japan Moves to End Child Marriage

Heather Barr
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division
March 19, 2018 Letter

Request: Immediate cessation of aid for the Cambodian 2018 general elections
December 8, 2017 Commentary

Japan Should Help Rohingya Rape Survivors

Kanae Doi
Japan Director

Published In: Yahoo! Japan
November 29, 2017 Dispatches

Japan Forces Sterilization on Transgender People

Kanae Doi
Japan Director
November 14, 2017 Statement

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Japan
October 27, 2017 Dispatches

Japan’s Abe Should Denounce Philippines’ Murderous ‘Drug War’

Phelim Kine
Deputy Director, Asia Division
October 4, 2017 Dispatches

Japan’s Gay Mockery Throwback

Kanae Doi
Japan Director
September 14, 2017 News Release

Syrian Refugee Children’s Uncertain School Aid

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September 18, 2018

Kyrgyzstan's crackdown gets dangerously absurd; Poland's president visits the White House as the authoritarian slide continues... also in Poland; monitoring Burundi's abuses; getting away with mass murder in Myanmar; the #MeToo movement in China; supporting Saudi Arabia's women activists; and some very welcome good news out of the US.