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Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group. We're excited to be back and to share with you about Kamakura group.
In the first episode of the How We Can Be Involved In Japan series, we're interviewing group members Heather Willson and Tetsu Sadotomo about Amnesty Japan Kamakura Group. They have shared with us about the history of the group, its demographics, its activities, and its values.
You can find out more about how to join Amnesty International Japan Kamakura group by contacting amnesty.kamakura@gmail.com or contact Amnesty International Japan head office via 03-3518-6777 and ask for Kamakura group.
If you'd like to donate to AHBAP to support those affected by the recent 7.8-Richter earthquake, you can find its donation information in English on: ahbap.org/disasters-turkey.
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Reading List:資産の概要 (Description of Heritage Site) 武家の古都・鎌倉 (Kamakura: Home of the Samurai)
Climate change is triggering more earthquakes. Big Oil's interests are a factor (2023) Euronews
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Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group. Our deepest apologies for the slight delay involved in releasing this episode, but thankfully we finally managed to get this uploaded.
This episode is the last in a three part series concerning the situation regarding refugees in Japan. In this episode, we interview Maho Hadano, the coordinator of Door to Asylum Nagoya, and Jane Best OBE, the executive director of Refugee Empowerment International, to discuss the domestic and international situations concerning asylum seekers, refugees and displaced people and ways in which the situation can be improved at both a civic, governmental and individual level.
For those who would like to know more about Door to Asylum, you can visit their website here or you can follow them on Facebook. If you would like to donate to their appeal for helping to cover the medical expenses of asylum seekers without access to Japan's medical insurance system, please click here. Please be sure to email them at info@door-to-asylum.jp to let them explicitly know that your donation is for this purpose.
For those who would like to find out more about Refugee Empowerment International, please click the following link to access their website or check out their Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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Reading List:Refugee and Asylum Seeking in Modern Japan: Analysis of Japan’s Humanitarian Commitments and Xenophobic Problems (2017) The Journal of Migration Studies
False Beliefs About Asylum Seekers to Australia: The Role of Confidence in Such Beliefs, Prejudice, and the Third Person Effect (2017) Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
National Identity Crisis: The Politics of Constructing National Identity and Mandatory Detention of Asylum-Seekers in Australia and Japan (2007) Journal of Japanese Law
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Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group. Our deepest apologies for the delays involved in releasing this episode, but thankfully we finally managed to get this uploaded. Also, despite the show intro saying we are still provisional, we transitioned into official group status some months ago!
TRIGGER WARNING Discussions concerning attempted suicide
This episode is the second in a three part series concerning the situation regarding refugees in Japan. In this episode, we interview Naoya Kawaguchi, an attorney, a director of Door to Asylum Nagoya, the director general of the Nagoya Lawyers' Network for Refugees, and a member of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations' Civil Liberties Commission to discuss the difference between de jure regulations and de facto treatment asylum seekers and refugees receive in Japan, the non-legal barriers put in front of them besides those related to definitions put forth in international treaties, and the role that provisional release and mandatory detention play in discouraging asylum seekers.
For those who would like to know more about Mr. Kawaguchi's work, you can access his profile here (Japanese only)
For those who would like to find out more about Door to Asylum Nagoya, please click the following link to access their website or check out their Facebook page.
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Reading List:Japanese government presents immigration law revision but questions remain NHK World Japan, February 2021
Family of woman who died in detention files complaint against Japan officials BBC November 2021
We would like to thank Kawaguchi Sensei and Kusumoto San from Kawaguchi Law Office and Maho Hadano from Door to Asylum Nagoya for helping to organize this.
Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional).
This episode is the first in a three part series concerning the situation regarding refugees in Japan. In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Naoko Hashimoto, an Associate Professor who lectures on global issues that include those related to refugees and migration in both English and in Japanese at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. We talked about the history and processes surrounding asylum applications in Japan, why Japan has a low acceptance rate compared to other nations and whether focusing on rates is productive as an advocacy tool, as well as what her take was concerning how the system could be reformed.
For those who would like to know about Dr. Hashimoto's work, you can access her ResearchMap profile here.
For more info on Refugee Empowerment International's Virtual walk from Kigali to Goma, please click this link.
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Reading List:Complementary Protection in Japan: To What Extent Does Japan Offer Effective International Protection to Those who Fall Outside the 1951 Refugee Convention? by Brian Aycock and Naoko Hashimoto, Laws 2021
UNHCR Figures at a Glance UNHCR Asia Pacific
Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional).
Refugee and detention policy in Japan has also become a point of contention with the proposed Immigration Law Revision Bill being debated in the Diet.
Against this backdrop, our next set of episodes will cover the topic of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Japan and ask why Japan in this case is the Land of the Closed Door. We hoped to release our first episode this April. However, due to personal issues affecting the the project, we will need to delay this. Please keep an eye on our social media for more details when the first episode of this series will be launched.
In the meantime, to coincide with Earth Day, we will be holding an online event, the Conversational Coffee Klatsch, concerning the relationship between climate change and the increase in refugees.
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Thank you for listening to the first episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode is the first in a three part series on how climate change affects human rights, and will focus on how climate change and human rights have become linked over the last 30 years. To do this, we spoke to Dr. Evan Gach, an environmental activist and academic from Nagoya University.
This podcast is also a supplementary resource for an online discussion panel we will be holding on May 17th from 18:00 Japanese time entitled ‘Freedom Toast Café: How Does Climate Change Impact Human Rights?’. Joining us for this event will be global human rights and climate change campaigner Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, as well as Professor Masao Takano from the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences at Nagoya University. To join us, please click one of the links below:
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□Links to Dr. Gach’s research: Normative Shifts in the Global Conception of Climate Change: The Growth of Climate Justice Social Sciences, January 13, 2019
■COVID-19 is nature’s wakeup call to complacent civilization by George Monbiot, The Guardian, March 25, 2020
□In strongest climate ruling yet, Dutch court orders leaders to take action by John Schwartz, New York Times, December 20, 2019
■People urgently fleeing climate crisis cannot be sent home, UN rules BBC News, January 20, 2020
□International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
■International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional).
We would like to let you all know that Rentaikan will be back in 2021. We are currently working on our format and episode guide for this year, but we intend to release episodes on a bimonthly basis from around May or April this year. We hope to make announcement on this by the end of this month. Stay tuned
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Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode, a collaboration with Black Lives Matter Tokai, is the last in a three part series on the Black Lives Matter Movement in Japan, and will focus on the individual stories of 3 people living in Japan possessing a link to Black identity or activism in Japan: half Japanese/half African American Aichi business owner, Leila Odagaki as well as the cofounders and conveners of Japan for Black Lives, Terry Wright and Naomi Kawahara. We also look at ways we can elevate the conversation concerning Black people in Japan.
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Reading List:△Confronting Diversity: Africans challenging Japanese Societal Convictions, Paul Capobianco, Contemporary Japan, 2015
▲Towards an Analysis of Global Blackness: Race, Representations, and Jamaican Popular Culture in Japan, Marvin Sterling, Racial Representations in Asia, 2011
Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode, a collaboration with Black Lives Matter Tokai, is the first in a three part series on the Black Lives Matter Movement in Japan, and will focus on the perceptions of 3 particular Black men living in Japan concerning microaggressions and police interactions. Hosted by Paul Richardson from Black Lives Matter Tokai, who was joined by Terrence Holden, the host of the Tokyo Speaks podcast, as well as local musician, Vinny Vintage, this episode is a personalized account of what it can be like to be Black in Japan.
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Microagressions△Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away/NPR, June 2020
▲ What is a Microaggression? 14 Things People Think are Fine to Say at Work Ju— but are Actually Racist, Sexist, or Offensive/Business Insider, July 2020
△ Colorism and My Black Experience in Japan/The Wagamama Diaries, August 2020
▲ Black in Japan: Shifting the Narrative/Nippon.com, July 2020
△ “We Need To Turn Anger Into Education:” Japan For Black Lives Founders Terry Wright and Naomi Kawahara on Why We Should Talk About Racism in Japan/Tokyo Weekender, June 2020
▲The Experiences and Perceptions of Microaggressions Against American Assistant Language Teachers Living in Japan/ Hupp, S.L., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (2017)
△ Top 5 Microaggressions in Japan/JapanInfo, September 2020
Police Interactions△ Anti-Police Brutality Protests Break Out in Tokyo/Unseen Japan @Medium, June 2020
▲ Protesters Hit Tokyo and Osaka Streets with Rallies Against Racism and Police Brutality/Japan Times, June 2020
△ Japan Holds Anti-Racism Rally, Protesting Homegrown Police Brutality in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter/The Diplomat, June 2020
Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode, a collaboration with Black Lives Matter Tokai, is the first in a three part series on the Black Lives Matter Movement in Japan, and will focus on the history of the Black diaspora in Japan dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries and the Samurai period. To do this, we spoke to Professor John G. Russell, a professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Regional Studies at Gifu University and author, and retired Professor Reginald Kearney, a retired academic with teaching experience in both Japan and the USA, an author who has published books concerning the mutual perceptions of both Japanese and Black communities in this country.
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Professor Russell△"Mindo and the Matter of Black Lives in Japan"/Asia Pacific Journal▲Kokujin no Nihonjin Mondai (An article listed in Gendai Shiso in their upcoming Black Lives Matter issue/Japanese Only)
△ Appealing Because He Is Appalling: A Book That Professor Russell will contribute a chapter to entitled "Anaconda East: Anaconda East: Fetishes, Phallacies, Chimbo Chauvinism and the Displaced Discourse of Black Male Sexuality in Japan"
Professor Kearney
△ The Pro-Japanese Utterances of W.E.B. DuBois
▲ Educator Calls for Better Understanding of Black History in Japan: An interview Professor Kearney had with the Japan Times journalist, Baye McNeill
△ African American views of the Japanese: solidarity or sedition? A book published by Professor Kearney in 1998
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We are very excited to come to you today to tell you all about the series of episodes that we have been using all of August preparing for and will be running from September to November involving Black Lives Matter regarding the Black experience in Japan.
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Thank you for listening to the first episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode is the final in a three part series on how climate change affects human rights, and will focus on potential ways we can help to mitigate climate change as individuals. To do this, we spoke to Katrin Funk, a local climate change activist and advocate for vegan and minimalist lifestyles.
To access the video where Katrin shows how to make a tote bag out of a t-shirt just using a pair of scissor, please click here.
This podcast is also a supplementary resource for the online discussion panel we held on May 17th entitled ‘Freedom Toast Café: How Does Climate Change Impact Human Rights?’. which Marinel was a panelist at with Professor Masao Takano from the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences at Nagoya University.
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□ Throwaway Society: Rejecting a Life Consumed by Plastic
■ Plastic Addiction
□ Over 90% of Sampled Salt Brands Globally Found to Contain Microplastics
■ Revealed the 20 Firms Behind a Third of All Carbon Emissions
□ Why is the Fed Spending So Much on a Dying Industry?
■ Leaked Audio Reveals How Coca Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
□ Fridays For Future Nagoya
■350.org
Thank you for listening to the first episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode is the second in a three part series on how climate change affects human rights, and will focus on how climate change impacts actual people. To do this, we spoke to Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, a Filipina human rights and climate change activist who is known for testifying at the Philippines Commission on Human Rights in New York, organizing the first Philippines climate strike and addressing the Paris Climate Conference in 2015.
This podcast is also a supplementary resource for the online discussion panel we held on May 17th entitled ‘Freedom Toast Café: How Does Climate Change Impact Human Rights?’. which Marinel was a panelist at with Professor Masao Takano from the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences at Nagoya University.
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□Have more than a billion animals perished nationwide this bushfire season? Here are the facts
■Bushfire death toll reaches 33, as NSW plans state memorial
□Australia fires: Almost 2,000 homes destroyed in marathon crisis
■Melbourne's air quality 'worst in the world' as bushfires continue to burn across Victoria
□Climate crisis cutting short Australia's winters and extending summers
■Overcoming Australia's black summer
□Australia experiences hottest summer on record
■ Climate change forces cognac makers to consider other grape varieties
□ Hunger and Climate Change
■ What has Climate Crisis Got to Do with Human Rights?
□ Human Rights Hearing: Emotional Testimony, No Oil Industry Response
■ W4R 2019: Philippines – Marinel Sumook Ubaldo – Long Version (Audio from this YouTube video was used in the recording of this podcast)
Thank you for listening to the first episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode is the first in a three part series on how climate change affects human rights, and will focus on how climate change and human rights have become linked over the last 30 years. To do this, we spoke to Dr. Evan Gach, an environmental activist and academic from Nagoya University.
This podcast is also a supplementary resource for an online discussion panel we will be holding on May 17th from 18:00 Japanese time entitled ‘Freedom Toast Café: How Does Climate Change Impact Human Rights?’. Joining us for this event will be global human rights and climate change campaigner Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, as well as Professor Masao Takano from the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences at Nagoya University. To join us, please click one of the links below:
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□Links to Dr. Gach’s research: Normative Shifts in the Global Conception of Climate Change: The Growth of Climate Justice Social Sciences, January 13, 2019
■COVID-19 is nature’s wakeup call to complacent civilization by George Monbiot, The Guardian, March 25, 2020
□In strongest climate ruling yet, Dutch court orders leaders to take action by John Schwartz, New York Times, December 20, 2019
■People urgently fleeing climate crisis cannot be sent home, UN rules BBC News, January 20, 2020
□International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
■International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights