Abstract
This paper examines a number of lawsuits challenging racial discrimination in Japan’s private sector. Since Japan does not have a law banning private acts of racial discrimination, victims of racial discrimination invoke international human rights law to buttress their claims for compensation. I argue that Japanese judges are, by and large, receptive to these international law claims, but that the system for adjudicating racial discrimination disputes is inadequate. Specifically, a law that bans private acts of racial discrimination would put Japan in line with recently emergent global norms of equality.
Keywords
human rights, racial discrimination, ethnic others, international law, domestic application
Publication Date
2008
Document Type
Article
Place of Original Publication
Michigan Journal of International Law
Publication Information
30 Michigan Journal of International Law 211 (2008)
Repository Citation
Webster, Timothy, "Reconstituting Japanese Law: International Norms and Domestic Litigation" (2008). Faculty Publications. 558.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/558
