03818nam a2200445 i 4500 45901 BD-DhAAL 20260721154633.0 180510s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng c 2018003057 9780190853105 9780190853112 20495393 (OCoLC)NEW LBSOR/DLC eng LBSOR rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc a-ja--- JC599.J3 T78 2018 323.152 23 Tsutsui, Kiyoteru, author. 61233 Rights make might : global human rights and minority social movements in Japan / Kiyoteru Tsutsui. Rights make might New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018. xi, 315 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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. AAL Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 45901 Human rights Japan. 61234 Minorities Civil rights Japan. 61235 Buraku people Civil rights Japan. 61236 Koreans Civil rights Japan. 61237 Ainu Civil rights Japan. 61238 Social movements Japan. 61239 Japan Ethnic relations. 61066 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 48080 48080 0 0 ddc 0 323_152000000000000_TSU 0 79320 BRACUL BRACUL 2026-06-09 Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 0 323.152 TSU 3010045901 2026-06-09 1 2026-06-09 BK Donated copy received from Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation on 08 April 2026; $ 151.65 Amazon.com