Another Japan Is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education

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Examines the genesis of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing an identity of the Japanese as global citizens.

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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.

Author Biography

Jennifer Chan is Associate Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan (Stanford, 2004)

Table of Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Tables and Figuresiii Acknowledgmentsiii Note on Conventionsiii @toc2:Introduction: Global Governance and Japanese Nongovernmental Advocacy Networks1 @toc1:Part IGlobal Governance @toc2:Introduction to Part I000 @toc2:1. Global Governance Monitoring and Japan @tocca:Kawakami Toyoyuki, Advocacy and Monitoring Network on Sustainable Development000 @toc2:2. Education, Empowerment, and Alternatives to Neoliberalism @tocca:Sakuma Tomoko, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society000 @toc2:3. Building a People-Based Peace and Democracy Movement in Asia @tocca:Ogura Toshimaru, Peoples' Plan Study Group000 @toc2:4. Tobin Tax, Kyoto Social Forum, and Pluralism @tocca:Komori Masataka, Association for the Tobin Tax for the Aid of Citizens, Kyoto000 @toc2:5. Education for Civil Society Capacity Building @tocca:Fukawa Yoko, Pacific Asia Resource Center000 @toc2:6. Community Development, Peace, and Global Citizenship @tocca:Takahashi Kiyotaka, Japan International Volunteer Center000 @toc1:Part IILabor @toc2:Introduction to Part II000 @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 Center000 @toc2:9. Gender, Part-Time Labor, and Indirect Discrimination @tocca:Sakai Kazuko, Equality Action 21000 @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 Net000 @toc2:12. Water, Global Commons, and Peace @tocca:Mizukoshi Takashi, All-Japan Water Supply Workers' Union000 @toc1:Part IIIFood Sovereignty000 @toc2:Introduction to Part III000 @toc2:13. Agricultural Liberalization, World Trade Organization, and Peace @tocca:Ohno Kazuoki, No WTO--Voices of the Grassroots in Japan000 @toc2:14. Multifunctionality of Agriculture over Free Trade @tocca:Yamaura Yasuaki, Food Action 21000 @toc2:15. Citizens' Movement Against Genetically Modified Foods @tocca:Amagasa Keisuke, No! GMO Campaign000 @toc2:16. Self-Sufficiency, Safety, and Food Liberalization @tocca:Imamura Kazuhiko, Watch Out for WTO! Japan000 @toc1:Part IVPeace000 @toc2:Introduction to Part IV000 @toc2:17. "We Want Blue Sky in Peaceful Okinawa" @tocca:Hirayama Motoh, Grassroots Movement to Remove U.S. Bases from Okinawa and the World000 @toc2:18. World Peace Now @tocca:Hanawa Machiko, Tsukushi Takehiko, and Cazman, World Peace Now000 @toc2:19. Article 9 and the Peace Movement @tocca:Takada Ken, No to Constitutional Revision! Citizens' Network000 @toc2:20. Fundamental Law of Education, Peace, and the Marketization of Education @tocca:Nishihara Nobuaki, Japan Teachers' Union000 @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 Depot000 @toc2:24. Building a Citizens' Peace Movement in Japan and Asia @tocca:Otsuka Teruyo, Asia Pacific Peace Forum000 @toc1:Part VHIV/AIDS000 @toc2:Introduction to Part V000 @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 Tokyo000 @toc2:27. Migrant Workers and HIV/AIDS in Japan @tocca:Inaba Masaki, Africa Japan Forum000 @toc1:Part VIGender000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VI000 @toc2:28. International Lobbying and Japanese Women's Networks @tocca:Watanabe Miho, Japan NGO Network on CEDAW000 @toc2:29. Gender, Human Rights, and Trafficking in Persons @tocca:Hara Yuriko, Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons000 @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 Tokyo000 @toc2:32. Sex Workers' Movement in Japan @tocca:Kaname Yukiko, Sex Workers and Sexual Health000 @toc2:33. Women's Active Museum on War and Peace @tocca:Watanabe Mina, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace000 @toc2:34. Art, Feminism, and Activism @tocca:Shimada Yoshiko, Feminist Art Action Brigade000 @toc1:Part VIIMinority and Human Rights000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VII000 @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 Foreigners000 @toc2:36. Antidiscrimination, Grassroots Empowerment, and Horizontal Networking @tocca:Morihara Hideki, International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism000 @toc2:37. Multiple Identities and Buraku Liberation @tocca:Mori Maya, Buraku Liberation League000 @toc2:38. Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Multicultural Coexistence @tocca:Uemura Hideaki, Shimin Gaik' Centre000 @toc2:39. On the Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights of the Ainu @tocca:Sakai Mina, Association of Rera000 @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's000 @toc2:41. Art Activism and Korean Minority Rights @tocca:Hwangbo Kangja, Mirine000 @toc2:42. Ethnic Diversity, Foreigners' Rights, and Discrimination in Family Registration @tocca:Tony L szlo, Issho Kikaku000 @toc2:43. Disability and Gender @tocca:Hirukawa Ry'ko, Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International000 @toc2:44. The UN Convention on Refugee and Asylum Protection in Japan @tocca:Ishikawa Eri, Japan Association for Refugees000 @toc2:45. Torture, Penal Reform, and Prisoners' Rights @tocca:Akiyama Emi, Center for Prisoners' Rights Japan000 @toc2:46. Death Penalty and Human Rights @tocca:Takada Akiko, Forum 90000 @toc1:Part VIIIYouth Groups000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VIII000 @toc2:47. Experience, Action, and the Floating Peace Village @tocca:Yoshioka Tatsuya, Peace Boat000 @toc2:48. Ecology, Youth Action, and International Advocacy @tocca:Mitsumoto Yuko, A SEED Japan000 @toc2:49. Organic Food, Education, and Peace @tocca:Shikita Kiyoshi, BeGood Cafe000 @toc2:50. "Another Work Is Possible": Slow Life, Ecology, and Peace @tocca:Takahashi Kenkichi, Body and Soul000 @toc2:Conclusion: Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education000 @toc4:Appendixes000 List of Organizations000 References000 Index000

Review

"To conclude, the use of the book is twofold. Firstly, it can serve as an eye-opener to readers who are stuck in the image of Japan as a country where discontent seldom takes the form of overt protest or citizen engagement. Secondly, it presents a lot of raw material and information which... can be useful to readers interested in Japanese civil society or the groups presented in the book. " - Japanese Studies "The days are gone forever when the prevailing cliche in Japan suggested that there were only two types of social entities: governmental institutions and non-governmental individuals (the so-called middle mass). However, of late the former has been fragmenting themselves while the latter has been flourishing and fraternalizing themselves with transnational and international counterparts. Jennifer Chan has vividly illustrated this incredible turnaround with good contextualizing narratives and rich and informative constructions of the thinking and sentiments those non-governmental organizations generate in a vast array of areas. A must read in the study of globalization and localization." - Inoguchi Takashi, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, and Professor of Political Science, Chuo University, Tokyo "This book is rich in primary material on the human side of NGO activity in Japan, along a wide spectrum of organizations. In that alone it is a valuable text. This is a nuanced view of advocacy, strategies and institutions, sometimes against the grain of existing views, and it adds the perspectives of "new global citizens" of Japan, engaged in knowledge production. The book will be very useful indeed in social and political science courses, and in courses on globalization, social change and identity." - Merry White, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University "A surprise for observers who view Japan as a developmental state, run by a powerful central bureaucracy and aligned with a conservative party whose policies often override public interest, Another Japan is Possible casts new light on a neglected but vital aspect of Japan's emerging political economy. A remarkable group of scholars, professionals and citizen activists reveal the growing numbers of committed Japanese participating energetically in local and global organizations devoted to a broad range of issues, from the environment and sustainable development to health care, migrant workers, disability, gender, and minority rights." - Daniel I. Okimoto, Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director Emeritus, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University "As a civil society scholar, I can say that this book is a desired piece of work...This book makes an important contribution to connecting Japanese accounts to both Japanese and global discourses on civil society." - Akihiro Ogawa, Stockholm University

Long Description

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.

Review Quote

"To conclude, the use of the book is twofold. Firstly, it can serve as an eye-opener to readers who are stuck in the image of Japan as a country where discontent seldom takes the form of overt protest or citizen engagement. Secondly, it presents a lot of raw material and information which... can be useful to readers interested in Japanese civil society or the groups presented in the book. "

Details ISBN0804757828 Short Title ANOTHER JAPAN IS Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804757828 ISBN-13 9780804757829 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Edited by Jennifer Chan Author Jennifer Chan DOI 10.1604/9780804757829 UK Release Date 2008-01-29 AU Release Date 2008-01-29 NZ Release Date 2008-01-29 US Release Date 2008-01-29 Pages 432 Publication Date 2008-01-29 Alternative 9780804757812 DEWEY 323 Audience Undergraduate Illustrations 8 illustrations, 5 tables We've got this

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