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100			_a Tsutsui, Kiyoteru _eAuthor _978147
245			_aRights Make Might: _bGlobal Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan
260			_a New York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c2018
300			_a 315 pages; _c24 cm
520			_aRights 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
650			_aHuman rights _zJapan _978451
650			_a Minorities _xCivil rights _zJapan _978452
650			_aBuraku people _x Civil rights _zJapan _978453
650			_aKoreans _xCivil right _zJapan _978454
887			_28 _aPapia Akter
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