Other Publications
The Development of a Legal Notion of Equal Employment in the U.S ‐ Using Gillian Thomas’s Book as a Guide [in Japanese]
AbstractUsing Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work as a guide, the article provides an overview of the development of what constitute unlawful sex discrimination under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, relevant judicial precedents, and legislative changes to date. With the exception of a few cases, women have filed lawsuits against employers as individuals, and the fact that these cases have accumulated to form legal notions to this day reveals the American-ness.
The Fairness Trap: Vaccine Reservation Systems and Chaos for the Elderly in Japan
AbstractThe paper addresses the political, technical and design-related issues that the Japanese vaccine distribution system faced, especially for elderly citizens. The author proposes that focusing on individual characteristics rather than fairness would have been better for the performance of the vaccination plan.
Fukushima: Depoliticizing the Release of Treated Water into the Ocean
AbstractThe article addresses Japan’s policy towards the discharge of treated waters related to the Fukushima nuclear incident of 2011 and the reactions this announcement received from different parties.
The Spread of COVID-19 and the 137 th Annual Meeting [in Japanese]
AbstractIt is another important task for labor law to build a better social system that takes into account the changes triggered by COVID-19.
European Trends on Digital Platform Regulation [in Japanese]
AbstractRegarding the various EU digital platform (DPF) regulations, this article deals with DPF-related institutional reforms and legislation introduced by the European Commission from 2014 to the present.
Multilateralism and democracy in Asia [in Spanish]
AbstractThe article proposes that institutional and cooperation frameworks that had been developed in Asia by the first decade of the 2000s have had few tangible outputs. Political instability and the rise of authoritarian powers such as China represents a challenge for the expansion of democracy in the region. The answer to prevent this will be based on cooperation, consolidation of emerging democracies and institutionalization, but this could be even more challenging with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Seoul incident and feminism: Five Korean socially conscious films that are both art-oriented and popular [in Japanese]
AbstractMany Korean films are bold in their criticism of politics and power, and touch upon historical and social issues. The strength of Korean cinema is that it combines art and popular appeal. In particular, the "Candlelight Revolution"（2015-2017）that led to the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye, triggered the emergence of socially conscious films.
Demand for electronic components and the challenge for globalization [in Spanish]
AbstractThe article relates the scarcity of some core goods with the attitudes that some countries took at the beginning of the pandemic and the impact these have in Latin America.
‘Human Rights and Democracy Diplomacy’ under Transformation: International Cooperation among Democratic Countries and the Direction for Japan [in Japanese]
AbstractThe Biden administration has placed the protection of human rights and democracy diplomacy, at the core of its new policy, and the cornerstone of its new line has become the promotion of human rights and democracy through international cooperation. In the background, in addition to the retreat of the liberal international order, the US administration and intellectuals are aware of the changing perception of the US by the international community.
Quantitative analysis of civil wars [in Japanese]
AbstractThe section introduces the quantitative studies of civil war, and conducts an analysis on the potential role of power sharing arrangments as a key to faciliate stability and democratization in a post-conflict society.