A British Association of Japanese Studies symposium entitled Reflections on Politics, Law and Human Rights in Contemporary Japan to be held on 18 May, 2013 at Kyoto University.

Schedule
Ian Neary (University of Oxford) 13.30-14.10 Dowa Policy as a Japanese Approach to Human Rights

Mari Miura (Sophia University) 14.15-14.55 Contemporary Politics of Social Protection in Japan

Koichi Nakano (Sophia University) 15.00-15.40 Political Dynamics of Rightward Shift in Japan

Mark Fenwick (Kyushu University) 16.10-16.50 Experiencing Insecurity in Japan

Colin Jones (Doshisha University) 16.55-17.35
>From Great Writ to Tuning Fork - How Japan's Judiciary
Tamed Habeas Corpus

Location
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research
iCeMS WestWing 2F, Seminar Room
Kyoto University
For a map, please see:
http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/eng/06_acc/index.html

Registration
Anyone interested is welcome to attend this event, and there is no formal registration requirement, so please feel free to simply turn up on the day. If you do plan to come, though, it would be helpful if you could indicate your interest in advance to the event organiser by email to croydon.silvia.6z@kyoto-u.ac.jp.

Best wishes,
Silvia Croydon