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Japan’s Lawmakers Call Out Human Rights Abuses in China​

As the winter Olympics begin this week in Beijing, the Japanese parliament has added its voice to the global chorus of concern about human rights in China.

Lawmakers stand up to show their support as Japan's parliament adopts resolution on human rights in China at the parliament in Tokyo Kyodo via Reuters

As the winter Olympics begin this week in Beijing, the Japanese parliament has added its voice to the global chorus of concern about human rights in China. The Resolution Regarding the Serious Human Rights Situation in Xinjiang Uighur and Other Areas passed almost unanimously on February 1. As expected, the Chinese Foreign Ministry reaction was swift, claiming Japan “has no authority whatsoever to make wanton remarks” about other countries’ human rights conditions.

Five political parties worked on the draft. The two parties that make up the ruling coalition, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, were joined by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Restoration Party and the Japan Communist Party. To gain this multiparty buy in, the Asahi Shimbun reported that the resolution’s language was softened so that all five parties could support it. For example, instead of human rights “violations,” the resolution focused on the human rights “situation.” The tiny Reiwa Shinsengumi party refused to sign, apparently out of this deference to Chinese feelings.

Hayashi Yoshimasa addresses the House of Representatives after the passage of the human rights resolution, via Reuters

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The Diet resolution made no direct reference to the People’s Republic of China, and yet there was no mistaking whose behavior this resolution was referring to. It noted the rising international concern over the “infringement of freedom of religion and forced incarceration in places including Xinjiang Uighur, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, and Hong Kong.”

The intent was not only to call out China, however. The House of Representatives called on the Japanese government “which proclaims respecting human rights as a principle” to make a “constructive commitment” to human rights. The Resolution called for a “substantive and solid political document” to guide Japan’s human rights diplomacy.

This explicit elevation of human rights in Japan’s foreign policy agenda has been the project of some within the LDP, Gen Nakatani foremost among them, for some time. In November, when Prime Minister Kishida invited Nakatani, a former defense minister, to advise him on human rights, it became clear that Japan would be increasing its cooperation with others in the international community on addressing China’s human rights abuses.

The language of the resolution urged Japanese to consider the use of force by states internally as of equal import to the use of force abroad. “The House of Representatives of Japan regards changing the status quo through force, as seen with the serious human rights situation, as a threat to the international community, and strongly calls for accountability for this serious issue in a manner acceptable to the international community.” Moreover, these lawmakers also argued that Japan should prepared to act in support of “those people in need.”

On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, Japan’s alignment with other nations around the globe on China’s human rights abuses portends a difficult year for Sino-Japanese relations. 2022 is the 50th anniversary of the normalization of Japan’s relations with China, and in his early call with Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa in November of last year, Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautioned him to focus on the positive this year. In response to the resolution, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, called the resolution “a severe political provocation against the Chinese people.” This is not likely to be an anniversary marked with popular celebration.

Japan’s Lawmakers Call Out Human Rights Abuses in China

As the winter Olympics begin this week in Beijing, the Japanese parliament has added its voice to the global chorus of concern about human rights in China.

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[beijingwalker]

Street scene and traffic in Xinjiang Kashgar city now and in 1990's, change of 30 years​

Street scene and traffic in Xinjiang Kashgar city now and in 1990's,, change of 30 years. cars replaced donkeys and animal pulled carts.

 

[sha ah]

How quickly they forget about their own atrocities against China in WW2, like the Nanjing massacre. Using chemical weapons against allied troops, killing prisoners of war after capture, Korean comfort women. Realistically today Japan produces more diapers for the elderly than for children. It's sad and this entire boycott attempt by the west is just pathetic. Nobody even went along with it, what a handful of nations didn't send diplomats to cheer on athletes ? but in the end I hear the US ended up asking for a few diplomatic visas anyways. So what was the point ?

 

[Dalit]

This is an old broken record now. Japan, India, NATO countries and the US are one block with the same mutual interests. That is an open secret by now. These countries think that they are the established order. Without their approval no other country can prosper and breathe. China and Russia are defying this logic and this bloc is seething with anger and frustration. How can the established order be challanged? Well, it is being challanged and the world is changing. It is just that the established order is having a tough time accepting the new reality.

Let me tell you what real human rights abuses look like. India massacring its minorities and the Western bloc remaining mum. The US torturing and murdering innocent people during illegal occupations. There is no one to question these genocides. Now they have ganged up against China and Russia and are preaching the rest of the world about Chinese human rights abuses. Luckily there is hardly any appetite for such hypocritical preaching.

 

[Beast]

Japan is so concern about human right abuse but why they ignore the human right abuse of their american and Australia partner?

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Can concern for human right be selective? Or this is just a smokescreen for these hypocrite to blame China? These Japanese are pathetic. After losing the crown of Asia champion to China. All they can do , is to stood so low and used such lowlife trick to undermined rising China. It no coincidence Japan is declining. A sunset country.

 

[Ibr0kEmYrAz0r]

more fake videos from Chinese Youtube accounts ?

I reported 12 today

and they not credible source of information

Dude, the English-subtitled report on Xinjiang's Integration of traditional culture into modern society's clip was a documentary from Hong Kong's Phoenix Satellite Television. Try watch some programme before making groundless accusations.

 

[Ibr0kEmYrAz0r]

Twitter is banned in China anyway, I don't see the point.

Correction, Twitter is not “banned” as there are tens of millions of registered users in Mainland China through various means of accessing.

However, Twitter has no presense right now in Mainland China after it was used as a communication tool by the islamic extremists/terrorists in 2009 Ürümqi 7.5 terrorists attack in Xinjiang.

Basically, it failed to live up to the competition through the years. Overall, microblog is a declining trend/social media tool in Mainland China for the past decade, even China's own "Weibo" has lost its edge. Tencent's microblog service was shutdown in Sept 2020 due to insufficient users, which leaves Baidu's weibo as the sole meaningful provider, for a mostly age 35+ group of people.

 

[Suika]

How quickly they forget about their own atrocities against China in WW2, like the Nanjing massacre. Using chemical weapons against allied troops, killing prisoners of war after capture, Korean comfort women. Realistically today Japan produces more diapers for the elderly than for children. It's sad and this entire boycott attempt by the west is just pathetic. Nobody even went along with it, what a handful of nations didn't send diplomats to cheer on athletes ? but in the end I hear the US ended up asking for a few diplomatic visas anyways. So what was the point ?

Well, an obvious counter point that can be made is that WW2 was war time. PRC dealings in Xinjiang on local population that don't want to "harmonize" to the CCP goal is peacetime. The persecution of Falun Gong to the point of zero is also peacetime. What are the examples of Japan doing those kinds of things to Japan's own population during peacetime? It is actions taken against their own population that is used as a discrediting function to mobilize political will towards the targeted country for new policy towards the target country. Granted there is something to say about hypocrisy. Falun Gong prosecution was in high gear when the US (both Democrat and Republican) approved China's ascension to the WTO at around the year 2000. If the same human rights principles were taken back in 2000, then the PRC could not have been allowed into the WTO. So it is fair to say that the use of those principles now is really to serve geopolitical contest then out of genuine human rights concerns by the US and other western higher ups. But still it leaves the point about what the PRC's tight control policy has resulted in with the human socio-cultural engineering going on in Xinjiang. It could still be said that back in 2000, the PRC was poor and if their interact more in business and cultural exchanges, then the PRC would loosen up control. So in effect of "let's give them a chance". Well the PRC blew their chance for that. Of course all said with US involvement in the ME. Although even if no involvement in the ME, there is still competition between Sunni and Shia to be had, so its not like the ME would be all butterflies and rainbows if there was no US.

Anyway that was one point..

Other points.. a quick one.. the comfort women is way blown out of proportion. While at the same time, K-pop popularizes sexuality and human trafficking happens in ROK today.. so *yawn*

Nanjing is a sensitive point for good reason but there is a lot that should be said about that too instead of being flung out like a knee jerk reaction punchline. Since it is a lot of content, it is unfair to reproduce everything in a cool and sincere mind every time it gets used so clumsily. Consider the following: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/if-j...a-instead-of-the-british.609701/post-11331236 But to add to what is not in that link is that the mentioning of the Nanking massacre is in Japanese high school books in actuality. Unit 731 as well. Japanese self-reflection can and does happen but with the constant China and others need to recognize the full context of it and receive that reflection fairly instead politicizing it. If the PRC would stop using it as a politicized tool with gross exaggerations, I think both China and Japan could reach a merging in regional narrative history on this. China needs to start treating history like a respectable world power and not as if it was some poor weak country that uses history sympathy to give it a leg up to get out of economic poverty. That is related to the factors in causing the second Sino-Japanese war so for the full context of that, consider the following which are again to wordy to reproduce each time its reduced as a kneejerk reacting punchline:
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/what-is-your-impression-of-china.638471/post-11818850
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/if-j...a-instead-of-the-british.609701/post-11328877

 

[Beast]

Well, an obvious counter point that can be made is that WW2 was war time. PRC dealings in Xinjiang on local population that don't want to "harmonize" to the CCP goal is peacetime. The persecution of Falun Gong to the point of zero is also peacetime. What are the examples of Japan doing those kinds of things to Japan's own population during peacetime? It is actions taken against their own population that is used as a discrediting function to mobilize political will towards the targeted country for new policy towards the target country. Granted there is something to say about hypocrisy. Falun Gong prosecution was in high gear when the US (both Democrat and Republican) approved China's ascension to the WTO at around the year 2000. If the same human rights principles were taken back in 2000, then the PRC could not have been allowed into the WTO. So it is fair to say that the use of those principles now is really to serve geopolitical contest then out of genuine human rights concerns by the US and other western higher ups. But still it leaves the point about what the PRC's tight control policy has resulted in with the human socio-cultural engineering going on in Xinjiang. It could still be said that back in 2000, the PRC was poor and if their interact more in business and cultural exchanges, then the PRC would loosen up control. So in effect of "let's give them a chance". Well the PRC blew their chance for that. Of course all said with US involvement in the ME. Although even if no involvement in the ME, there is still competition between Sunni and Shia to be had, so its not like the ME would be all butterflies and rainbows if there was no US.

Anyway that was one point..

Other points.. a quick one.. the comfort women is way blown out of proportion. While at the same time, K-pop popularizes sexuality and human trafficking happens in ROK today.. so *yawn*

Nanjing is a sensitive point for good reason but there is a lot that should be said about that too instead of being flung out like a knee jerk reaction punchline. Since it is a lot of content, it is unfair to reproduce everything in a cool and sincere mind every time it gets used so clumsily. Consider the following: https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/if-j...a-instead-of-the-british.609701/post-11331236 But to add to what is not in that link is that the mentioning of the Nanking massacre is in Japanese high school books in actuality. Unit 731 as well. Japanese self-reflection can and does happen but with the constant China and others need to recognize the full context of it and receive that reflection fairly instead politicizing it. If the PRC would stop using it as a politicized tool with gross exaggerations, I think both China and Japan could reach a merging in regional narrative history on this. China needs to start treating history like a respectable world power and not as if it was some poor weak country that uses history sympathy to give it a leg up to get out of economic poverty. That is related to the factors in causing the second Sino-Japanese war so for the full context of that, consider the following which are again to wordy to reproduce each time its reduced as a kneejerk reacting punchline:
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/what-is-your-impression-of-china.638471/post-11818850
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/if-j...a-instead-of-the-british.609701/post-11328877

Of cos, Japan do have their persecution against own citizen. Like persecute of aum shinrikyo if I used your analog.

Typical misinfo tactics to misled readers. Falungong is a designated occult whose leader claim he is reincarnated of buddlha. What is wrong with China trying to tackle such occult? If u claim China tackle of Fanlungong is against human right. That makes Japan outlaw aum shinrikyo no different.

Abuse of Xinjiang and unighur I do not wish to talk further. I guess there are already plenty of post that exposed the smearing of China against unighur like 1 million uighur lock up or the cartoonish cosplay by CNN finding a fake Chinese actor faking as ex Xinjiang police.

 

[Leishangthem]

China has stuck with 80s atrocity propaganda against Japan to instil nationalism before& after Tiananmen incident,China has lost the ability to maneuver away from it after creating a generation of anti japan hyper nationalist that exerts great political pressure to be tough on Japan,otherwise Japan would have been alone on the wrong side of using crime against hunanity for geopolitics,only for that reason Japanese adopting human rights play against China makes it akin to two parties hurling shit on each other.

 

[Suika]

Of cos, Japan do have their persecution against own citizen. Like persecute of aum shinrikyo if I used your analog.

Typical misinfo tactics to misled readers. Falungong is a designated occult whose leader claim he is reincarnated of buddlha. What is wrong with China trying to tackle such occult? If u claim China tackle of Fanlungong is against human right. That makes Japan outlaw aum shinrikyo no different.

Abuse of Xinjiang and unighur I do not wish to talk further. I guess there are already plenty of post that exposed the smearing of China against unighur like 1 million uighur lock up or the cartoonish cosplay by CNN finding a fake Chinese actor faking as ex Xinjiang police.

Aum Shinrikyo did a gas attack in the Tokyo subway. What violence did Falun Gong do? Petty things like "being cult-like" is in the same level as typical corruption for or against Xi or corruption anywhere else. Although since the CCP has heavy control on people's life choices, the freedom of religion is suppressed. So Falun Gong emerged to fill in the void of the desire for spiritual well being that naturally occurs in humans. With Falun Gong 100% eliminated, then an under ground Christainity started to spread in China and churches with crosses started to show it, But then the CCP orders the take down of church crosses, makes services CCP-approved content and stamps down on private house church doing.

That is entirely different in comparison to Aum Shinrikyo and you know.

 

[beijingwalker]

The placard bearer for team China in the opening ceremony of 2022 Beijing Olympic Games
A Xinjiang Kuqa girl

 

[beijingwalker]

Just a bunch of Japanese anti China politicians who had never set their feet in Xinjiang even once, but to the Japanese who really visited Xinjiang, Xinjiang's peace, prosperity and cultural diversity make the place their favorite in China.

My Favorite Place in China !​

Why Xinjiang is so special for me

 

[Beast]

Aum Shinrikyo did a gas attack in the Tokyo subway. What violence did Falun Gong do? Petty things like "being cult-like" is in the same level as typical corruption for or against Xi or corruption anywhere else. Although since the CCP has heavy control on people's life choices, the freedom of religion is suppressed. So Falun Gong emerged to fill in the void of the desire for spiritual well being that naturally occurs in humans. With Falun Gong 100% eliminated, then an under ground Christainity started to spread in China and churches with crosses started to show it, But then the CCP orders the take down of church crosses, makes services CCP-approved content and stamps down on private house church doing.

That is entirely different in comparison to Aum Shinrikyo and you know.

LOL.. Calling himself buddlha reincarnation and scam members to donate money to him is not a crime? You need to get your head check.

The ABC is right: Falun Gong has some dangerous teachings - ABC Religion & Ethics

The ABC’s recent coverage of Falun Gong has been important to the growing ex-Falun Gong community, of which I’m proud to be part. The ABC is telling an important story that has been neglected or overlooked for too long; its television reports, podcasts, and online articles were well-researched...

www.abc.net.au

"Falun Gong practitioners believe Li Hongzhi is a god — they hang on every word he speaks and he carries an enormous amount of influence over what believers say and do."

 

[Suika]

LOL.. Calling himself buddlha reincarnation and scam members to donate money to him is not a crime? You need to get your head check.

The ABC is right: Falun Gong has some dangerous teachings - ABC Religion & Ethics

The ABC’s recent coverage of Falun Gong has been important to the growing ex-Falun Gong community, of which I’m proud to be part. The ABC is telling an important story that has been neglected or overlooked for too long; its television reports, podcasts, and online articles were well-researched...

www.abc.net.au

"Falun Gong practitioners believe Li Hongzhi is a god — they hang on every word he speaks and he carries an enormous amount of influence over what believers say and do."

If Falun Gong was like that in the late 1990s in China but was still able to gather 100 million Chinese practioners, then that doesn't speak well of Chinese people in general to believe in something so absurd and requiring government iron fist intervention to save them from stupid belief? But I rather doubt Falun Gong could be characterize as such back then as well. And no example of violence.