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 any of their appeals, please be sure to email them at info@door-to-asylum.jp.

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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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 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. 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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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 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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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 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.

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.

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

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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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). 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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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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