Attacks on Justice 2000 – Japan
A drastic reform of the judicial infrastructure is to be carried out by the Judicial System Reform Council established in June 1999. (more…)
Region and country Archives: Japan
In re Futyu Hostel, Tokyo High Court, Civil 4th Division, Japan (16 September 1997)
Procedural Posture An LGBT group called OCCUR was denied permission to stay in a government-run youth hostel by the Tokyo Educational Committee. OCCUR appealed the decision. The Tokyo District Court reversed the decision of the Committee, which then appealed to the High Court. Facts OCCUR, an LGBT group composed of young adults, stayed at Seinen […]
Comfort women: an unfinished ordeal
This is the story of people everyone tried to forget. The matter has been raised before many fora, including those of the United Nations. Much has appeared on the subject in the media. (more…)
ICJ publishes report on “Comfort Women”
This report published today is the outcome of an ICJ mission to the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and to Japan in April 1993 to study the issue. (more…)
Jurists urge better protection for mentally ill in Japan
The ICJ has urged Japan to revise its 1988 Mental Health Law in order to better protect the human rights of psychiatric patients. (more…)
CIJL Yearbook: Constitutional guarantees for the independence of the judiciary, vol. I, 1992
The two UN Basic Principles, one on the Independence of the Judiciary adopted in 1985, and other on the Role of Lawyers adopted in 1990,1 explicitly define the international norms relevant to the independence of judiciary and the legal profession. (more…)