2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Cross Cultural Study of the Concept of Human Rights
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18520618
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
NUMAZAKI Ichiro Tohoku University, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (40237798)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 文化 / 人権 |
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| Research Abstract |
In the Japanese conception of "human rights", the western notion of political and civil liberties against the state is limited in the legal circles. More widely held is the understanding that "human rights" are the rights of minorities whose justifiable "entitlements" are violated and thereby their human "dignity" is denied. Due to such a conception, women's rights are not so easily recognized as human rights, while the claims of the disabled people are more easily recognized as such.
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