Human Rights in Japan

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The paper takes a wide-ranging look at human rights around the world today, showing the key themes and issues currently affecting the international community. The introduction explains key terms necessary for the paper and gives a history of the development of human rights. The paper focuses on Japan as a case-study (though numerous other examples are cited where applicable). The author of the paper goes undercover in Japan to show that, despite "successes" in improving human rights in countries such as South Africa, shocking human rights violations still occur today worldwide even in developed countries and these need to be exposed and then dealt with.

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"At least the Japanese of Korean and Chinese ancestry blend in to the Japanese population at large but human rights violations can be far worse for those who do not. An unofficial but widely accepted racial-pyramid stereotyping exists amongst Japanese society at large. Japanese, naturally, are at the top of the ethnic groups. It could be argued that an inferiority complex with whites (particularly European and American) still exists but this has gradually eroded with Japan's economic ascension and the increasing crime and disorder in Western cultures. After Westerners follow Asians (first Chinese, then Koreans and finally other Asians) who Japanese look down upon as inferiors and finally blacks (except, paradoxically, musically and athletically gifted blacks whom the Japanese detachedly admire)."

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