{"id":1223,"date":"2008-02-20T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2008-05-31T23:39:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T14:39:44","slug":"interesting-forthcoming-book-another-japan-is-possible-citing-tony-laszlo-of-long-defunct-issho-kikaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Interesting forthcoming book: “Another Japan is Possible”, citing Tony Laszlo of long-defunct “Issho Kikaku”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. Speaking of books…<\/p>\n

We have another book on Japan’s internationalization coming out. Press release below. It looks to be a serious and interesting study of the forces of minority voices in Japan. Well done Professor Chan.<\/p>\n

There is one thing I found odd. Chapter 42 below reads:<\/p>\n

42. Issho Kikaku
\nTony Laszlo
\nEthnic Diversity, Foreigners’ Rights, Discrimination in Family Registration
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\nHang on. Tony Laszlo of “Issho Kikaku”? Issho Kikaku has been a moribund organization for more than two years now<\/a> (its archives taken offline for “site renewal” December 4, 2005! Here’s today’s screen capture:).
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By taking the work of hundreds of activists offline like this, Laszlo in fact has a history of deleting the historical record of Japan’s internationalization. Likewise, the Shakai Mailing List Archives, which he was also involved in, also mysteriously disappeared about a year ago. Substantiation for all these assertions here.<\/a><\/p>\n

How can a “non-active” activist representing a non-existent organization pop up like this in a serious academic work? Well, Jennifer by sheer coincidence contacted me a couple of weeks ago for some introductions into Japan’s Muslim Community. When queried about this situation, she said she conducted the interviews with Laszlo about two years ago. Probably before Laszlo deep-sixed his site. So she probably didn’t know about his impending conversion to cartoon character and cute keitai mascot<\/a> (beats sullying his hands in real activism, anyway, or tainting his cutie-pie salability with any connection to controversial topics). I wish Jennifer had done a follow-up check before publication, though. Perpetuates an incorrect job description for other serious researchers.<\/p>\n

Anyway, without any sarcasm, I think this looks to be a great book. Bonne chance. I’ll be getting a copy. Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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NEW BOOK RELEASE:
\nAnother Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education
\nEdited by Jennifer Chan, Stanford University Press 2008.
\nISBN: 0804757828
\nPrice: USD 27.95<\/b><\/p>\n

Book summary:
\nThis edited volume, a sequel to my first book \u2013 Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan – looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese advocacy nongovernmental networks that have grown since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures on the global justice movement, Japanese civil society, and global citizenship education. Through the narratives of 50 activists in eight overlapping issue areas\u2014global governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV\/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youth\u2014this book examines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and local\u2014that is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how in turn local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groups\u2014and to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective. <\/p>\n

Advanced Praise
\n***
\n“A surprise for observers who view Japan as a developmental state, run by a powerful central bureaucracy and aligned with a conservative party whose policies often override public interest, this book casts new light on a vital aspect of Japan’s emerging political economy. A remarkable group of scholars, professionals, and citizen activists reveal the growing numbers of committed Japanese participating energetically in local and global organizations.”
\n\u02dcDaniel I. Okimoto, Stanford University<\/p>\n

“Jennifer Chan vividly illustrates the recent flourishing of nongovernmental organizations in Japan. With good contextualizing narratives and rich, informative examples of the thinking and sentiments nongovernmental organizations generate, she delivers a must-read in the study of globalization and localization.”
\n\u02dcInoguchi Takashi, University of Tokyo<\/p>\n

“This book is rich in primary material on the human side of NGO activity in Japan, along a wide spectrum of organizations. This is a nuanced view of advocacy, strategies, and institutions, sometimes against the grain of existing views, and it adds the perspectives of new global citizens of Japan, engaged in knowledge production.
\n\u02dcMerry White, Boston University<\/p>\n

Table of Contents:<\/p>\n

Introduction: Global Governance and Japanese Advocacy Nongovernmental Networks
\nI. Global Governance
\n1. AM-Net\/Advocacy and Monitoring Network on Sustainable Development
\nKawakami Toyoyuki Global Governance Monitoring and Japan
\n2. Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society
\nSakuma Tomoko Education, Empowerment and Alternatives to Neoliberalism
\n3. Peoples\u2019 Plan Study Group
\nOgura Toshimaru Building a People-based Peace and Democracy Movement in Asia
\n4. Association for the Tobin Tax for the Aid of Citizens, Kyoto
\nKomori Masataka Tobin Tax, Kyoto Social Forum and Pluralism
\n5. Pacific Asia Resource Center
\nFukawa Yoko Education for Civil Society Capacity Building
\n6. Japan International Volunteer Center
\nTakahashi Kiyotaka Community Development, Peace and Global Citizenship<\/p>\n

II. Labor
\n7. Japan Trade Union Confederation (Rengo)
\nKumagai Ken\u2019ichi Globalization and Labor Restructuring
\n8. Shinjuku Homeless Support Center
\nKasai Kazuaki Corporate Restructuring and Homelessness
\n9. Equality Action 21
\nSakai Kazuko Gender, Part-time Labor and Indirect Discrimination
\n10. Filipino Migrants Center Nagoya
\nIshihara Virgie Migration, Trafficking and Free Trade Agreements
\n11. Labor Net
\nYasuda Yukihiro Neoliberalism and Labor Organizing
\n12. All-Japan Water Supply Workers\u2019 Union
\nMizukoshi Takashi Water, Global Commons and Peace<\/p>\n

III. Food Sovereignty
\n13. No to WTO – Voice from the Grassroots in Japan
\nOhno Kazuoki Agricultural Liberalization, World Trade Organization and Peace
\n14. Food Action 21
\nYamaura Yasuaki Multifunctionality of Agriculture over Free Trade
\n15. No! GMO Campaign
\nAmagasa Keisuke Citizens\u2019 Movement against Genetically Modified Foods
\n16. Watch Out for WTO! Japan
\nImamura Kazuhiko Self-sufficiency, Safety and Food Liberalization<\/p>\n

IV. Peace
\n17. Grassroots Movement to Remove US Bases from Okinawa and the World
\nHirayama Motoh \u201cWe Want Blue Sky in Peaceful Okinawa\u201d
\n18. World Peace Now
\nHanawa Machiko, Tsukushi Takehiko and Cazman World Peace Now
\n19. No to Constitutional Revision! Citizens\u2019 Network
\nTakada Ken Article 9 and the Peace Movement
\n20. Japan Teachers\u2019 Union
\nNishihara Nobuaki Fundamental Law of Education, Peace and the Marketization of Education
\n21. International Criminal Bar
\nHigashizawa Yasushi Japan and International War Crimes
\n22. Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines
\nKitagawa Yasuhiro Landmine Ban and Peace Education
\n23. Peace Depot
\nNakamura Keiko Nuclear Disarmament, Advocacy and Peace Education
\n24. Asia-Pacific Peace Forum
\n\u00d4tsuka Teruyo Building a Citizens\u2019 Peace Movement in Japan and Asia<\/p>\n

V. HIV\/AIDS
\n25. Japan AIDS and Society Association
\nTarui Masayoshi HIV\/AIDS from a Human Rights Perspective
\n26. Place Tokyo
\nHy\u00f4d\u00f4 Chika HIV\/AIDS, Gender and Backlash
\n27. Africa Japan Forum
\nInaba Masaki Migrant Workers and HIV\/AIDS<\/p>\n

VI. Gender
\n28. Japan NGO Network for CEDAW
\nWatanabe Miho International Lobbying and Japanese Women\u2019s Networks
\n29. Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons
\nHara Yuriko Gender, Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons
\n30. Soshiren\/Starting from a Female Body
\nOhashi Yukako Gender, Reproductive Rights and Technology
\n31. Regumi Studio Tokyo
\nWakabayashi Naeko As a Lesbian Feminist in Japan
\n32. Sex Workers and Sexual Health
\nKaname Yukiko Sex Workers\u2019 Movement in Japan
\n33. Women\u2019s Active Museum of War and Peace
\nWatanabe Mina Women\u2019s Active Museum on War and Peace
\n34. Feminist Art Action Brigade
\nShimada Yoshiko Art, Feminism and Activism<\/p>\n

VII. Minority and Human Rights
\n35. Japan Civil Liberties Union Subcommittee for the Rights of Foreigners
\nFujimoto Mie A Proposal for the Law on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
\n36. The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
\nMorihara Hideki Antidiscrimination, Grassroots Empowerment and Horizontal Networking
\n37. Buraku Liberation League
\nMori Maya Multiple Identities and Buraku Liberation
\n38. Citizens\u2019 Diplomatic Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Shimin Gaik\u00f4 Centre)
\nUemura Hideaki Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Rights and Multicultural Coexistence
\n39. Association of Rera
\nSakai Mina On the Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Rights of the Ainu
\n40. Association of Indigenous Peoples in the Ry\u00fbky\u00fbs
\nTaira Satoko \u201cI would like to be able to speak Uchin\u00e2guchi when I grow up!\u201d
\n41. Mirine
\nHwangbo Kangja Art Activism and Korean Minority Rights
\n42. Issho Kikaku
\nTony Laszlo Ethnic Diversity, Foreigners’ Rights, Discrimination in Family Registration
\n43. Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples\u2019 International
\nHirukawa Ry\u00f4ko Disability and Gender
\n44. Japan Association for Refugees
\nIshikawa Eri The UN Convention on Refugee and Asylum Protection in Japan
\n45. Center for Prisoners\u2019 Rights Japan
\nAkiyama Emi Torture, Penal Reform and Prisoners\u2019 Rights
\n46. Forum 90
\nTakada Akiko Death Penalty and Human Rights<\/p>\n

VIII. Youth Groups
\n47. Peace Boat
\nYoshioka Tatsuya Experience, Action and the Floating Peace Village
\n48. A Seed Japan
\nMitsumoto Yuko Ecology, Youth Action and International Advocacy
\n49. BeGood Cafe
\nShikita Kiyoshi Organic Food, Education and Peace
\n50. Body and Soul
\nTakahashi Kenkichi \u201cAnother Work is Possible\u201d: Slow Life, Ecology and Peace<\/p>\n

Conclusion: Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education
\nAppendixes
\nNotes<\/p>\n

Target audience:
\nJapanese studies, Asian studies, feminist studies, human rights and globalization researchers, transnational and local social movement studies.<\/p>\n

To order:
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\nTel. 1-800-621-2736
\nFax: 1-800-621-8471
\nE-mail: custserv@press.uchicago.edu
\nor through
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For more information, please contact:
\nJennifer Chan, Ph.D.
\nAssistant Professor,
\nDepartment of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education; and
\nFaculty Associate, the Centre for Japanese Research, the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies; and Institute for European Studies.
\nUniversity of British Columbia
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\nTel: (604) 822-5353
\nFax: (604) 822-4244
\nJennifer.chan@ubc.ca
\nhttp:\/\/www.edst.educ.ubc.ca\/faculty\/chan.html<\/a>
\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Speaking of books… We have another book on Japan’s internationalization coming out. Press release below. It looks to be a serious and interesting study of the forces of minority voices in Japan. Well done Professor Chan. There is one thing I found odd. Chapter 42 below reads: 42. Issho Kikaku Tony Laszlo Ethnic …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,5,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-isshoorgtony-laszlo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}