サイズ：297×420mm / 色数：CMYK（校正番号：h231225）

Human Rights Consultation Hotline

Lending Service of DVDs/
Videos on Human Rights(Human Rights Promotion Division, Sakai City Government)*Including matters related to LGBTQ+The Human Rights Promotion Division of
the Sakai City Government lends out
DVDs and videos on human rights for free.
*The DVDs are in Japanese only, without foreign-language
subtitles or dubbing.

List of DVDs/videos available:

堺市人権啓発DVD・
ビデオソフト貸出

Do not hesitate
to call us.
堺市人権相談ダイヤル

SearchPeople are different. It is important to accept the manydifferences of those around us and recognize eachother.
By positively accepting people as they are andrespecting diversity, all people can play their own partin society.

・Monday to Friday

Division, Sakai City Government(excluding national holidays and New Year holidays)

・ 9:00〜12:00、13：00〜16：30
・Approx. 30 min. per call

T E L 072-228-7420

072-228-8070
Approx.

35
DVD
Human rights in businessmin.

Ima Kigyo ni Motomerareru Bijinesu to Jinken eno Taio(Response to human rights in business required of companies)

DVD
Information ethics

Approx.

25

min.

Sumaho wa Joho Moraru ga Taisetsu I:
Netto Ijime o Shinai! SNS deno Deai ni Ki o Tsukeyo!
(Information ethics is important in using smartphones I:
No cyber bullying! Be careful of social media dating!)

Companies are now
required to respect thehuman rights of not only
their own employees but
also all those involved
with their business,
known as stakeholders.
This DVD presents
information that will
help companies in theirefforts to promote
human rights inbusiness through drama,
CG, and a navigator’s
explanation.

Two of the issues related
to social media—cyberbullying and social
media dating—arecovered. Each partconsists of a drama
section and an
explanatory section, andviewers can learn theimportance of
information ethics andcareful consideration
before using social
media by thinking about
what they would do ineach situation.

What Is the Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council (HREPC)?

The Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council is a civic organization established in July 1979, withthe aim of eliminating any form of discrimination, including buraku discrimination, and protecting the humanrights of all people. With an extensive membership comprising civil groups, businesses and religious corporations,
HREPC carries out various activities to educate the public on human rights and contribute to a peaceful andprosperous society where the human rights of all people are respected.
The HREPC’s symbol represents people holding hands, praying for the promotion of human rights and world peace.

Directors of the Council
Chair: KANAMARU Naohiro(Business Members Committee of the Council)

Vice Chair: KUBO Teruo(Federation of Sakai City Residents’
Associations)

Vice Chair: OMACHI Murako(Sakai City Women’s Association)

Vice Chair: KURODA Satoshi(Sakai City PTA Federation)

Vice Chair: SHIRAMOTO Tadashi(Sakai City Association of Childcare
Organizations)

Vice Chair: NAKATANI Yoshihiro(Sakai City Association of Principals ofMunicipal Schools)

Vice Chair: NAKATA Rieko

Safe City Sakai

堺市

性暴力相談

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Sakai City has been promoting the Safe City Sakai Program to create a safe and comfortable living
environment for women, children, and all other people.
The program includes support for victims of sexual violence. The city has been improving its consultationand support system to help them recover physically and mentally, and conducting awareness-raising
activities to eliminate social prejudice against victims of sexual crimes and promote understanding.
The city will continue its efforts to eradicate violence against women and children.

Back issues of
HREPC Newsletter

Toward a Society Where All
People Can Play Their Part

［Consultation hours］［Inquiries］Human Rights Promotion

FAX

Kokoro-no-Hibiki

Consultation isavailable for free.

☎ 072-228-7364

Search

Sakai City Human Rights Education
Promotion Council Newsletter vol.45(Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Federationof the Buraku Liberation League)

Vice Chair: YOSHIMURA Seiji(Religious Groups Committee of the Council)

Treasurer: KOYAMA Toshimi(Sakai City Women’s Group for Social
Rehabilitation)

Treasurer: MORIUCHI Keiko(District Committee of the Sakai City
Human Rights Commissioners’ Association)

Chair KANAMARU Naohiro

Member Organizations
The HREPC has 28 member organizations.

・Federation of Sakai City Residents’ Associations
・Sakai City Women’s Group for Social
Rehabilitation
・Sakai City Women’s Association
・Sakai City Support Group for Foreign Residents’ ・NPO Sakai Federation of Disabled People’s
Education
Organizations
・Sakai City Social Education Committee
・Sakai City Human Rights Education andResearch Society
・Sakai City Federation of Private Kindergartens・Sakai City Liaison Council of Instructors for Youth ・Sakai City PTA Federation
・Sakai City Welfare Association for・Sakai City Agricultural Cooperative
Single-Mother Families and Widows
・Sakai City Association of Childcare
・Sakai City Federation of Child Welfare
Organizations
Commissioners
・NPO Sakai Federation of Private Educational
・Sakai City Association of Principals of Municipal
and Childcare Institutions
Schools
・Sakai Chamber of Commerce and Industry
・・Sakai City Federation of Senior Residents’ Clubs District Committee of the Sakai City Human
Rights Commissioners’ Association
・Sakai District Committee of Administrative
・Sakai City Liaison Council of Probation Officers
Counselors
・Osaka Prefectural Association of Vocational
・Sakai City Council of Social Welfare
Schools
・Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Headquarters
・
Principals’ Association of Osaka Prefecturalof Liberal Dowa Association
Schoolsin the 8th District・Semboku Sumai Center, West Japan Branch, UR・Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Federation ofCommunity Inc.
the Buraku Liberation League
・Sakai City Association for Sound Growth ofChildren

Sakai City Human Rights
Education Promotion Council
Editor and Publisher (Published in March 2024)

Human Rights Promotion Division, Sakai City Government
3-1 Minamikawara-machi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture

TEL 072-221-9280 FAX 072-228-8070
HREPC Official Website https://www.jinkenkyo.jp→

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2023
Report on Activities in FY
General Workshop (August 8, 2023 at Sakai City Industrial Promotion Center; August 23 to September 2023 by online distribution)

Visiting Associate Professor Tatsumi Mariko at the Research Center for the Diversity Research
Environment, Osaka Metropolitan University, also representative of Hito-Care Work Lab., gave alecture on “Fathers’ Parenting and Gender.” Participants learned about the role of gender in parentingthat society has created and the historical background of Japan in this regard. The lecture also
provided an opportunity to learn about the differences in parenting practices between Japan and othercountries and think about the future of parenting in Japan.

Gathering to Protect Human Rights (December 3, 2023 at Sakai City General Welfare Hall)
In the first part, an award ceremony was held to commend 20 winners in the “My Human Rights
Message” essay contest, selected from among 2,688 entries. Of them, four award-winners read theiressays on stage, leaving a deep impression on the audience.
The second part was a screening of the movie “A Silent Voice.” It is a story of the growth of young
people who, while facing themselves and their classmates, learn to accept the many differences of
those around them and accept each other. The movie led the audience to think about the importance ofrespecting diversity, their understanding of people with disabilities, and the issue of bullying.
*Various other projects are undertaken by the HREPC. For details, please visit our website at the URL shown on the front

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) area set of 17 global goals adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly in 2015. The SDGs
are intended to achieve a better future for theworld by finding solutions to various global
challenges, such as poverty, inequality, disparity,
climate change, depletion of resources anddestruction of nature, in a 15-year period from2016 to 2030.
Sakai City was designated as an SDGs Future
City in June 2018 by the Japanese governmentand has since been working toward the SDGs
based on the Sakai City
SDGs Future City Plan.

The motto of the SDGs is “Leaving no one behind.”

page.

Focus

ng Entry

The 44th Essay Contest “My Human Rights Message” Award-winni

About LGBTQ+ (Sexual Minorities)

A Wall that Obstructs (First-year high school student)

I hope you do not think I am incapable of anything because I have a disability.
My disability is what makes me unique and allows me to work harder than others.
Since I am hard of hearing, I feel that the world often thinks that I am unable to communicate or understand what is being
said. I communicate by reading the lips of the person I am talking with while hearing the voice through my hearing aids. If
I can do these two things, I can almost always understand what is being said. However, it is often difficult for me tounderstand at once what someone who I have never met is saying. I cannot read their lips because I am seeing them for the
first time. Whenever this happens, I ask the person to say it again. At that point, people react in many different ways: somemistake my hearing aids for earbuds, while others stop interacting with me, ignore me, or become reluctant to deal with aperson with a disability. These are common reactions and I do not mind, but they can cause me some trouble when I play table
tennis.
I started practicing table tennis in earnest when I was in the first year of junior high school. When I was in elementary school,
I only played table tennis with my grandfather for fun, so I had little trouble in communicating. In time, I wanted to getbetter at table tennis and practice in earnest, so I began attending table tennis training sessions at the gym of a local
elementary school. Since the training was organized by the table tennis federation, I thought that I would be stronger if I
practiced there. However, when I tried to get people with normal hearing to be my practice partners, I could not understandwhat they were saying because they did not make eye contact with me, or the practice session ended without any
communication at all. Each time, I wondered if I was being avoided because I was hard of hearing, or if they thought I could
not communicate because I could not hear. Eventually, I began to practice in silence, not speaking a word. Since it was like
that, of course I could not win the practice matches. The results showed that I was not developing my skills. At one point, I
was surprised to find myself thinking, “I want to win against people with normal hearing at any cost.”
I wondered, on second thought, if they were just going along with my practice because I am hard of hearing and they had nochoice. If that was the case, I thought I would make efforts so that they would interact with me no differently than they wouldwith a person with normal hearing. I watched and studied many videos to improve my table
tennis skills, and I actively talked to them to hear what they were saying as much as possible.
20
I put all my energy into practicing so that they would want to be my practice partner at least
award-winnin
once in the gym. Then they started to talk to me. Just by being asked to play together withg essaysothers, I began to enjoy table tennis very much.
selected from
2,688 entries
I know that people with normal hearing do not avoid practicing with me because of theavailable here.
difference in table tennis skills. However, actually, there are those who will interact with people
who are hard of hearing if they talk to them, but are not quite sure how to interact with them.
QR code to
In many cases, such people seemed to avoid me because they assumed that I, a hard of hearing
access the
person, could not communicate with them or they did not know how to practice with me. There
collection ofaward-winis still a lack of understanding of people who are hard of hearing. If that is the case, I would likening essays
to think of my own way to show myself and become someone that people would think, “I want
https://www.jinkenkyo.jp/
to practice with that person.”past-message/

What is LGBTQ+?
This refers to people who are recognized as a minority in their sexuality, suchas those who have romantic feelings for members of the same sex or who areuncomfortable with their physical sex. According to several private surveys
conducted in the country in recent years, LGBTQ+ people are estimated tomake up approximately 3–8% of the total population.

Act on the Promotion of Public Understanding ofDiversity of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
came into effect.
The act was enacted with the aim of contributing to the creation of asociety that is tolerant of diversity in sexual orientation and gender
identity.
The basic principle is that all citizens, regardless of their sexual
orientation or gender identity, are to be respected as irreplaceable
individuals who equally enjoy fundamental human rights.
*Sexual orientation・・・Orientation regarding sex or gender as the object of romantic or sexual feelings*Gender identity・・・Awareness of the existence or non-existence or degree of identity regarding the perceptionof the gender to which one belongs

You can access feature articles about peace and human rights below.↓
Striving for apeaceful society

Search

Sakai City SDGs
Future City

Search

Sakai City necessityof diversity

SearchHuman rights related
to sexual orientationand gender identity

Search3校

サイズ：297×420mm / 色数：CMYK（校正番号：h231225）

2023
Report on Activities in FY
General Workshop (August 8, 2023 at Sakai City Industrial Promotion Center; August 23 to September 2023 by online distribution)

Visiting Associate Professor Tatsumi Mariko at the Research Center for the Diversity Research
Environment, Osaka Metropolitan University, also representative of Hito-Care Work Lab., gave alecture on “Fathers’ Parenting and Gender.” Participants learned about the role of gender in parentingthat society has created and the historical background of Japan in this regard. The lecture also
provided an opportunity to learn about the differences in parenting practices between Japan and othercountries and think about the future of parenting in Japan.

Gathering to Protect Human Rights (December 3, 2023 at Sakai City General Welfare Hall)
In the first part, an award ceremony was held to commend 20 winners in the “My Human Rights
Message” essay contest, selected from among 2,688 entries. Of them, four award-winners read theiressays on stage, leaving a deep impression on the audience.
The second part was a screening of the movie “A Silent Voice.” It is a story of the growth of young
people who, while facing themselves and their classmates, learn to accept the many differences of
those around them and accept each other. The movie led the audience to think about the importance ofrespecting diversity, their understanding of people with disabilities, and the issue of bullying.
*Various other projects are undertaken by the HREPC. For details, please visit our website at the URL shown on the front

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) area set of 17 global goals adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly in 2015. The SDGs
are intended to achieve a better future for theworld by finding solutions to various global
challenges, such as poverty, inequality, disparity,
climate change, depletion of resources anddestruction of nature, in a 15-year period from2016 to 2030.
Sakai City was designated as an SDGs Future
City in June 2018 by the Japanese governmentand has since been working toward the SDGs
based on the Sakai City
SDGs Future City Plan.

The motto of the SDGs is “Leaving no one behind.”

page.

Focus

ng Entry

The 44th Essay Contest “My Human Rights Message” Award-winni

About LGBTQ+ (Sexual Minorities)

A Wall that Obstructs (First-year high school student)

I hope you do not think I am incapable of anything because I have a disability.
My disability is what makes me unique and allows me to work harder than others.
Since I am hard of hearing, I feel that the world often thinks that I am unable to communicate or understand what is being
said. I communicate by reading the lips of the person I am talking with while hearing the voice through my hearing aids. If
I can do these two things, I can almost always understand what is being said. However, it is often difficult for me tounderstand at once what someone who I have never met is saying. I cannot read their lips because I am seeing them for the
first time. Whenever this happens, I ask the person to say it again. At that point, people react in many different ways: somemistake my hearing aids for earbuds, while others stop interacting with me, ignore me, or become reluctant to deal with aperson with a disability. These are common reactions and I do not mind, but they can cause me some trouble when I play table
tennis.
I started practicing table tennis in earnest when I was in the first year of junior high school. When I was in elementary school,
I only played table tennis with my grandfather for fun, so I had little trouble in communicating. In time, I wanted to getbetter at table tennis and practice in earnest, so I began attending table tennis training sessions at the gym of a local
elementary school. Since the training was organized by the table tennis federation, I thought that I would be stronger if I
practiced there. However, when I tried to get people with normal hearing to be my practice partners, I could not understandwhat they were saying because they did not make eye contact with me, or the practice session ended without any
communication at all. Each time, I wondered if I was being avoided because I was hard of hearing, or if they thought I could
not communicate because I could not hear. Eventually, I began to practice in silence, not speaking a word. Since it was like
that, of course I could not win the practice matches. The results showed that I was not developing my skills. At one point, I
was surprised to find myself thinking, “I want to win against people with normal hearing at any cost.”
I wondered, on second thought, if they were just going along with my practice because I am hard of hearing and they had nochoice. If that was the case, I thought I would make efforts so that they would interact with me no differently than they wouldwith a person with normal hearing. I watched and studied many videos to improve my table
tennis skills, and I actively talked to them to hear what they were saying as much as possible.
20
I put all my energy into practicing so that they would want to be my practice partner at least
award-winnin
once in the gym. Then they started to talk to me. Just by being asked to play together withg essaysothers, I began to enjoy table tennis very much.
selected from
2,688 entries
I know that people with normal hearing do not avoid practicing with me because of theavailable here.
difference in table tennis skills. However, actually, there are those who will interact with people
who are hard of hearing if they talk to them, but are not quite sure how to interact with them.
QR code to
In many cases, such people seemed to avoid me because they assumed that I, a hard of hearing
access the
person, could not communicate with them or they did not know how to practice with me. There
collection ofaward-winis still a lack of understanding of people who are hard of hearing. If that is the case, I would likening essays
to think of my own way to show myself and become someone that people would think, “I want
https://www.jinkenkyo.jp/
to practice with that person.”past-message/

What is LGBTQ+?
This refers to people who are recognized as a minority in their sexuality, suchas those who have romantic feelings for members of the same sex or who areuncomfortable with their physical sex. According to several private surveys
conducted in the country in recent years, LGBTQ+ people are estimated tomake up approximately 3–8% of the total population.

Act on the Promotion of Public Understanding ofDiversity of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
came into effect.
The act was enacted with the aim of contributing to the creation of asociety that is tolerant of diversity in sexual orientation and gender
identity.
The basic principle is that all citizens, regardless of their sexual
orientation or gender identity, are to be respected as irreplaceable
individuals who equally enjoy fundamental human rights.
*Sexual orientation・・・Orientation regarding sex or gender as the object of romantic or sexual feelings*Gender identity・・・Awareness of the existence or non-existence or degree of identity regarding the perceptionof the gender to which one belongs

You can access feature articles about peace and human rights below.↓
Striving for apeaceful society

Search

Sakai City SDGs
Future City

Search

Sakai City necessityof diversity

SearchHuman rights related
to sexual orientationand gender identity

Search3校

サイズ：297×420mm / 色数：CMYK（校正番号：h231225）

Human Rights Consultation Hotline

Lending Service of DVDs/
Videos on Human Rights(Human Rights Promotion Division, Sakai City Government)*Including matters related to LGBTQ+The Human Rights Promotion Division of
the Sakai City Government lends out
DVDs and videos on human rights for free.
*The DVDs are in Japanese only, without foreign-language
subtitles or dubbing.

List of DVDs/videos available:

堺市人権啓発DVD・
ビデオソフト貸出

Do not hesitate
to call us.
堺市人権相談ダイヤル

SearchPeople are different. It is important to accept the manydifferences of those around us and recognize eachother.
By positively accepting people as they are andrespecting diversity, all people can play their own partin society.

・Monday to Friday

Division, Sakai City Government(excluding national holidays and New Year holidays)

・ 9:00〜12:00、13：00〜16：30
・Approx. 30 min. per call

T E L 072-228-7420

072-228-8070
Approx.

35
DVD
Human rights in businessmin.

Ima Kigyo ni Motomerareru Bijinesu to Jinken eno Taio(Response to human rights in business required of companies)

DVD
Information ethics

Approx.

25

min.

Sumaho wa Joho Moraru ga Taisetsu I:
Netto Ijime o Shinai! SNS deno Deai ni Ki o Tsukeyo!
(Information ethics is important in using smartphones I:
No cyber bullying! Be careful of social media dating!)

Companies are now
required to respect thehuman rights of not only
their own employees but
also all those involved
with their business,
known as stakeholders.
This DVD presents
information that will
help companies in theirefforts to promote
human rights inbusiness through drama,
CG, and a navigator’s
explanation.

Two of the issues related
to social media—cyberbullying and social
media dating—arecovered. Each partconsists of a drama
section and an
explanatory section, andviewers can learn theimportance of
information ethics andcareful consideration
before using social
media by thinking about
what they would do ineach situation.

What Is the Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council (HREPC)?

The Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council is a civic organization established in July 1979, withthe aim of eliminating any form of discrimination, including buraku discrimination, and protecting the humanrights of all people. With an extensive membership comprising civil groups, businesses and religious corporations,
HREPC carries out various activities to educate the public on human rights and contribute to a peaceful andprosperous society where the human rights of all people are respected.
The HREPC’s symbol represents people holding hands, praying for the promotion of human rights and world peace.

Directors of the Council
Chair: KANAMARU Naohiro(Business Members Committee of the Council)

Vice Chair: KUBO Teruo(Federation of Sakai City Residents’
Associations)

Vice Chair: OMACHI Murako(Sakai City Women’s Association)

Vice Chair: KURODA Satoshi(Sakai City PTA Federation)

Vice Chair: SHIRAMOTO Tadashi(Sakai City Association of Childcare
Organizations)

Vice Chair: NAKATANI Yoshihiro(Sakai City Association of Principals ofMunicipal Schools)

Vice Chair: NAKATA Rieko

Safe City Sakai

堺市

性暴力相談

Search

Sakai City has been promoting the Safe City Sakai Program to create a safe and comfortable living
environment for women, children, and all other people.
The program includes support for victims of sexual violence. The city has been improving its consultationand support system to help them recover physically and mentally, and conducting awareness-raising
activities to eliminate social prejudice against victims of sexual crimes and promote understanding.
The city will continue its efforts to eradicate violence against women and children.

Back issues of
HREPC Newsletter

Toward a Society Where All
People Can Play Their Part

［Consultation hours］［Inquiries］Human Rights Promotion

FAX

Kokoro-no-Hibiki

Consultation isavailable for free.

☎ 072-228-7364

Search

Sakai City Human Rights Education
Promotion Council Newsletter vol.45(Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Federationof the Buraku Liberation League)

Vice Chair: YOSHIMURA Seiji(Religious Groups Committee of the Council)

Treasurer: KOYAMA Toshimi(Sakai City Women’s Group for Social
Rehabilitation)

Treasurer: MORIUCHI Keiko(District Committee of the Sakai City
Human Rights Commissioners’ Association)

Chair KANAMARU Naohiro

Member Organizations
The HREPC has 28 member organizations.

・Federation of Sakai City Residents’ Associations
・Sakai City Women’s Group for Social
Rehabilitation
・Sakai City Women’s Association
・Sakai City Support Group for Foreign Residents’ ・NPO Sakai Federation of Disabled People’s
Education
Organizations
・Sakai City Social Education Committee
・Sakai City Human Rights Education andResearch Society
・Sakai City Federation of Private Kindergartens・Sakai City Liaison Council of Instructors for Youth ・Sakai City PTA Federation
・Sakai City Welfare Association for・Sakai City Agricultural Cooperative
Single-Mother Families and Widows
・Sakai City Association of Childcare
・Sakai City Federation of Child Welfare
Organizations
Commissioners
・NPO Sakai Federation of Private Educational
・Sakai City Association of Principals of Municipal
and Childcare Institutions
Schools
・Sakai Chamber of Commerce and Industry
・・Sakai City Federation of Senior Residents’ Clubs District Committee of the Sakai City Human
Rights Commissioners’ Association
・Sakai District Committee of Administrative
・Sakai City Liaison Council of Probation Officers
Counselors
・Osaka Prefectural Association of Vocational
・Sakai City Council of Social Welfare
Schools
・Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Headquarters
・
Principals’ Association of Osaka Prefecturalof Liberal Dowa Association
Schoolsin the 8th District・Semboku Sumai Center, West Japan Branch, UR・Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Federation ofCommunity Inc.
the Buraku Liberation League
・Sakai City Association for Sound Growth ofChildren

Sakai City Human Rights
Education Promotion Council
Editor and Publisher (Published in March 2024)

Human Rights Promotion Division, Sakai City Government
3-1 Minamikawara-machi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture

TEL 072-221-9280 FAX 072-228-8070
HREPC Official Website https://www.jinkenkyo.jp→

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