Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of Japan Fellow Roger Goodman (University of Oxford, UK Ian Neary (University of Essex University of Oxford, UK

1. In Search of Human Rights in Japan, 2. The Role of the Bureaucracy in the Enforcement of Human Rights, 3. Identity, Otherness and Migrant Labour in Japan, 4. Flags and Fanfares: The Hinomaru Flag and Kimigayo Anthem, 5. On Introducing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Japan, 6. Human Rights in the Japanese Mental Health System, 7. Patients' Rights: Organ Transplantation and Brain Death in Japan, 8. Obasuteyama in Modern Japan: Ageing, Ageism and Government Policy 9. Individuals Against the State? The Politics of Opposition to the Re-emergence of State Shinto 10. Japanese Human Rights Practice Abroad: A Case Study of Exporting Hazardous Industrial Activities

Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights.