Abstract
This article explores how international human rights law has influenced relations between organized civil society and the State in Japan. More specifically, it analyzes whether global norms on human rights have had any broad influence on the role of civil society as a public actor, or on the contrary a more restrictive one, concerning only organizations dealing with human rights issues. After a few preliminary remarks on what civil society entails, we start by addressing the nature and history of the modern Japanese civil society, as well as its historical relations with the state. Then we discuss the challenges facing citizen movements that wish to promote social and legal change in general, and those active in human rights in particular. We close the discussion with a selection of human rights issues where citizens' movements have been active and where international human rights law has played a significant role recently.
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