Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS) has been hosting serieses of talks encompassing Japanese politics, economy, cultures and arts. With the experts from Europe, U.S. and Japan, we deliver the talks in multiple languages including Japanese, Korean and English.

We are pleased to host No.273  lecture as a part of Japan Specialist Seminars, titled “A Critical Study on Law for Promoting the Elimination of Buraku Discrimination ─Biopolitics Denying the Assimilation Problem (「同和問題」を否認する生政治──部落差別解消推進法をめぐる批判的検討)” 

* This seminar is held hybrid –both online and offline 

Date : March 14th (Tuesday) 2023, 12:30 - 14:00

Venue : GSIS (Bldg 140)  GL Room / Zoom 

If you are participating online, please join via the link below on time.

ZOOM ID : 583 289 8745

Link : https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/5832898745

Lecturer : Hirooka Kiyonobu(廣岡浄進) Associate Professor, Research Center for Human Rights, Osaka Metropolitan University 

Title : A Critical Study on Law for Promoting the Elimination of Buraku Discrimination ── Biopolitics Denying the Assimilation Problem 

(「同和問題」を否認する生政治──部落差別解消推進法をめぐる批判的検討)

In December 2016, the 'Act on the Promotion of Resolution of Buraku Discrimination' was enacted. The law, which was proposed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was initially understood to show insufficient national attitude to meet the recommendations of the U.N. agency, along with the enforcement of the Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities and Disabilities ahead of the 2020 Olympics. In particular, since the Succession of the Act on Special Measures for Assimilation Countermeasures expired in March 2002 and was abolished, it has been 15 years since the law was abolished, and there was a tendency to expect the law to be a permanent law because it was an ideological law. The lecturer  would like to criticize the status quo, paying attention to the correspondence with the neoliberal policy of local administration surrounding buraku by municipal differences among Kansai.

Language : Japanese

Inquiry : SNU-IJS (880-8503 / ijs@snu.ac.kr)