Talk:Human rights in Japan

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I cut the following part from the article, because it only contains general information that can readily be found in the article Japan:

Japan (日本) is a parliamentary democracy based on its 1947 Constitution. Sovereignty is vested in the citizenry, and the Emperor is defined as the symbol of state. Executive power is exercised by a cabinet, composed of a prime minister and ministers of state, which is responsible to the Diet, a two house parliament. The Diet, elected by universal suffrage and secret ballot, designates the Prime Minister, who must be a member of that body. The most recent national elections were in September 2005. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the New Komeito Party make up the current coalition government headed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. The judiciary is generally independent.

The Self-Defense Forces are responsible for external security and have limited domestic security responsibilities. The well organized and disciplined police force is effectively under the control of the civilian authorities. However, there continued to be credible reports that police committed some human rights abuses.

In spite of a lengthy economic downturn, the industrialized, free market economy continued to provide the approximately 127,580,000 residents with a high standard of living and high levels of employment.

-- Mkill 02:43, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

This article was nominated for deletion on October 20, 2005. The result of the discussion was keep.

— JIP | Talk 09:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Wow 2 Major Issue 3 Deprogramming in Japan 4 Spelling, Grammar, Formatting 5 Project Assessment 6 get address 7 Edits by IP editor

[edit] Wow

I'm suprised by the length of the article and this talk page. The front page is very badly organised. I think this page should be wiki liked from other relevant pages so more people visit this page. FWBOarticle

[edit] Major Issue

This section was written badly. The rest appear to be copied mostly from AI so it looks fine. FWBOarticle

[edit] Deprogramming in Japan

"In 2002, the courts declared "deprogramming" illegal in a case involving members of Jehovah's Witnesses. However, in 2003, the Supreme Court rejected the Unification Church's appeal in a case involving charges against the victim's family and the kidnappers for kidnapping and "deprogramming." In that case, the court determined that the bases of the appeal were not matters involving a violation of the Constitution. A Unification Church spokesman estimated there were 20 deprogramming cases during the period covered by this report; however, at the families' request, none of the cases were reported to the police. "According to a spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses, members are free to practice their religion without restriction. Other than one forced confinement in January 2005, which was reported to the police after the fact, there have been no reported deprogramming cases since 2003."U.S. Department of State, Japan, International Religious Freedom Report 2005, Section II. Status of Religious Freedom --HResearcher 00:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling, Grammar, Formatting

The article is full of spelling mistakes, English grammar mistakes, and it looks like entire portions were lifted verbatim from other texts. An effort should be made to perform a spelling check and proofreading, at the very least

[edit] Project Assessment

Wow. Obviously, a lot of content here, and a quick brief skim seems to indicate that the majority of it is worthwhile. But it needs some serious clean up. For a start, the heading "Major Issues" should not be followed by "Article 14 of the Japanese Constitution guarantees equality between the sexes...." without so much as an introductory sentence, let alone a separate sub-header for Gender Equality. Also, this really needs an overhaul for the overall format and style of the article. As it stands now, it's basically just a list of criticisms and problems - take a look at Human rights in Israel - this is the best article on Human Rights by country I've found out of the handful I've looked at. It breaks things down into clean, neat categories, describing good things as well as bad.

The question to be answered by this article isn't "What problems & issues does Japanese society face?" or "In what ways are human rights violated in Japan?". Rather, the questions should be "On a range of different factors, what is it like in Japan?" I fully admit that no matter what vectors one applies, there is a certain POV bias towards what it means to be a freer or better society, or what it means to be a society that respects and protects human rights, and what those rights are. But nevertheless, I think a good start would be to reformat this article to be more in-line with the sub-headed topics in Human rights in Israel and to go from there. We already have more than enough separate articles on Ethnic issues in Japan and a variety of other subjects - again, this shouldn't be a list of criticisms and problems, but an attempt to present both the good and bad sides of the freedoms and liberties of life in Japan. I would also like to know if the citizens of Japan have the right to own and bear arms. LordAmeth 22:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] get address

plese can i get address of foreign human rights office in japan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.43.196.35 (talk) 09:38, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edits by IP editor

I have removed the recently added section on Okinawa because it is heavily POV and uncited, especially the second part. The Japanese constitution allows self-expression. Maybe during the war some activities were restricted but I do not know of any controls at the moment on local culture. If anything they are promoted to encourage tourism. We need serious facts from credible sources and much more specific points. John Smith's (talk) 11:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)