Comment on “Young People Avoid Discussing Human Rights Out of Fear: Journalist Koichi Yasuda’s Concerns” [in Japanese]
On February 19, 2024, a comment of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article “Young People Avoid Discussing Human Rights Out of Fear: Journalist Koichi Yasuda’s Concerns” was published. This article is about an interview with Koichi Yasuda, a journalist who says that although the younger generation, in particular, is highly interested in “human rights,” a fundamental right that everyone should respect, he increasingly feels that the term “human rights” is shunned, feared, and sometimes made fun of in the field of reporting. Professor Ichihara commented that it is not so much that young people as a whole tend to avoid discussions about human rights, but rather that the sense of ownership—seeing themselves as stakeholders in these issues—has become more polarized compared to the past.
