Human Rights
Quiz

Let’s try the quiz!

Sexual minority persons are often referred to as LGBT. It is said that the ratio of
persons who identify as LGBT is almost equal to the ratio of left-handed persons in
the Japanese population. Which of the following descriptions of LGBT is wrong?
Select one.

L (Lesbian) ........... Female homosexual
G (Gay) ................. Male homosexual
B (Bisexual) ......... Male and female heterosexuals
T (Transgender) ... Person whose sense of personal identity and gender does notcorrespond with his or her birth sex, including a person withgender identity disorder

Never discriminate against others, and never allow
anyone else to discriminate against others– Building a Human-Rights-Oriented Society –The Constitution of Japan defines fundamental human rights asremarks about residents in Dowa communities, foreign“eternal and inviolate rights” in Article 11, calls for respect of theresidents, and people with physical disabilities in a parking lot“right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in Article 13,

of a commercial facility in the city.

and declares that “all of the people are equal under the law andIn January 2017, an event was held in Sakai City in which

there shall be no discrimination in political, economic or social

citizens were invited to post messages on a bulletin board andrelations because of race, creed, sex, social status or family

among the messages, there was one that used discriminatory

origin” in Article 14.

language to defame residents in Dowa communities andIn 1980, Sakai City declared itself a “Human Rights City”

foreign residents.

to openly state its commitment to working for the respect ofWe must be firmly determined not to engage in any form

fundamental human rights and the realization of a peacefulof discrimination ourselves, and not to allow such contemptible

society – principles acknowledged in the Universal Declaration

behavior from others. Let each of us have the correctof Human Rights and the Constitution of Japan. In 2007, theknowledge and understanding of human rights and take action

city put into effect the Sakai City Ordinance for Fosteringso that the human rights of all people are respected.

Communities Respecting Peace and Human Rights with an

If you witness someone engaging in any act of

aim to promote government-citizen cooperation and act

discrimination, do not look the other way. Instead, face up to

globally towards achieving and maintaining international peace

what is actually happening as if it were your own problem andand resolving human rights issues.

tell the person that their behavior is wrong. By doing so, you

In August 2016, a postcard was sent to a public facility incan contribute to creating a society free of discrimination.

Saka City, which accused a person of making discriminatory

Kokoro-noHibiki

Published on March 31, 2017

Let a culture of human rights
bloom from Sakai City!

Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council Newsletter Vol. 38“Kokoro-no-Hibiki” is issued annually by the Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council (HREPC), targeting all
residents of Sakai City, to promote their understanding of human rights as part of the Council’s educational activities.

Table of Contents

1–2.... Residents’ Essays – Award-Winning Entries fromthe “My Human Rights Message” Essay Contest
3 ....... Human Rights of Children(Community Human Rights Promotion Committee Workshop)
4 ....... Things I Learned from Children in the War– The latest report on Syria and Afghanistan –(Comprehensive Workshop)
5 ....... “Mongolia – A Country That Is Not as Familiar as We Think”
IYS activity report (Citizens’ Forum for Human Rights Protection)
6 ....... What is the Human Rights Education Promotion Council?
7 ....... Human Rights Quiz etc.

Answer to the human rights quizB

B (Bisexual) refers to a person who is sexually attracted to both men and women.
There still is much prejudice against LGBT persons in society, and many are forced to live difficult lives.
We should develop a better understanding of LGBT persons and create a society where all people arerespected as equal human beings.
Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council Newsletter Kokoro-no-Hibiki Vol. 38

Editor and Publisher: Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council
Human Rights Promotion Division, Sakai City Government, 3-1 Minamikawara-machi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture
TEL: (072) 228-7420 FAX: (072) 228-8070 URL: http://www.jinkenkyo.jp (in Japanese only)

The 37th
Essay
Contest“My Human
Rights Message”

Friends and Efforts– Award-winning entries –About Yuri Yoshikawa
My home is the Kamamuro police substation and my father is apoliceman working there.
A poster of Yuri Yoshikawa is posted on the bulletin boardof the police substation. I learned that she went missing 13 years
ago when she was a fourth-year elementary school student.
I eat and travel with my father, mother and sister. I study at
school and play with my friends.
But Yuri Yoshikawa can’t go to school and go out with herfamily. I think her father and mother are very sad.

When I asked about the poster of Yuri Yoshikawa, my father
said, “Everyone has the right to live happily. We must create asociety where no one feels sad.”
I will not be mean to my friends and speak ill of them so thateveryone is happy at school.
I hope Yuri Yoshikawa will return to her beloved father andmother soon.

Human Rights of People with Disabilities
I think barrier-free environments are becoming widespread insociety. For example, main railway stations are equipped withelevators and large shops provide parking spaces for wheelchairusers near the entrances. Some public facilities and sightseeing
spots admit holders of a disability certificate at discount fees.
Today, people with disabilities have more freedom to go out.
Why did I choose “barrier-free” as the topic of my essay?
Before writing this essay, I looked up the word “barrier-free” in adictionary and found that “barrier-free” means removing
obstacles that hinder elderly persons and persons withdisabilities from living a civil life, and today, such obstacles
include insufficient social systems, poor accessibility to
information, and lack of awareness among the general public.
Born with cerebral palsy, my arms and legs are paralyzed
and I go to school every day riding an electric wheelchair. I canstudy at the school in the district of my choice thanks to theassistance of the teachers in charge of the special-needs students
and my friends. In this essay, I will discuss the true meaning of“barrier-free” from the viewpoint of a person with disability.
From my viewpoint, barrier-free environments are notsufficiently created in some places. To be specific, I can take theshortest way to the school by crossing a railroad, but the railroad
is narrow and crowded with people and cars during rush hour.
To avoid danger, I have to take a detour through an undergroundpath. In the road leading to the station, there is a difference in thelevel between the sidewalk and the street and in some places, thear-ye
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train and the platform is dangerously wide. Also, when I havevisited certain facilities or tourist destinations, I often foundthat, despite having a good external appearance, roads were so
uneven that wheelchair users and elderly persons had difficulty
moving around.
Many persons with disabilities like me and elderly people
need more barrier-free environments.
Generally, physical barrier-free environments are becoming
widespread, as I wrote earlier.
Now, I would like to emphasize the necessity of developinga barrier-free mindset. For example, when I am doing something
in a wheelchair, people around me often look at me curiously
and I feel awkward being the center of attention and watched likethat. In addition, there are things that can be naturally done bymost people but that require much more effort for me to do, suchas talking with someone face-to-face and communicating withothers smoothly. The harder I try to get things right, the moredifficult it becomes. Therefore, I hope people will not only see
my external appearance, but also notice and understand how I
feel inside and what I am not good at because this is a part of mypersonality. I believe many other people with disabilities feel thesame way.
By “barrier-free mindset,” I mean having an open-minded
attitude that respects each individual personality warmly.

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I am hearing impaired. Am I a special person?
I was a member of the soccer club when I was an elementary
school student, so I joined the soccer club when entering juniorhigh school to improve my skills. Soon after I joined the soccer
club, a classmate from a different elementary school said withcertainty, “You cannot play soccer because you cannot hear.” This
remark shocked me greatly as I felt I was being ridiculed for my
impairment.
But I didn’t allow myself to be discouraged and I practiced
soccer with the club members day after day.
One day, when I was playing in a practice match, the captain
directed me to mark a player of the opposing team but I didn’t
notice the direction and eventually allowed the opposing team toscore the goal. The captain was angry at me and said, “What did
you do? I told you to mark him!” Until then I didn’t know I had
been given the direction and I was deeply ashamed of myself.
But I didn’t want to waste this experience and I endeavored to
pay attention to what is going on around me as much as possible
while playing. Still, I often failed to notice directions given to me
and I was at a loss what to do. One day a teammate asked me,“How do you sign the letter ‘a’ in sign language?” At first I didn’thhig
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Assisted by my teammates who acted as my ears, I practiced
soccer every day, harder than anyone else, covered in dirt,
whether it rained or snowed, never tiring of chasing balls alongwith them. I just wanted to demonstrate that even with a hearing
impairment I could play soccer and meet the expectations of my
teammates. As a result, I was selected as a member of the team A
by the coach. I was so happy that I cried, “I did it!”Thus, I demonstrated that anyone, even those with a hearing
impairment, can achieve a goal by continuing to make efforts.
Though my goal was a small one – becoming a regular memberof the team – I felt great pleasure when I achieved my goal. I am
not special and I am just an ordinary person striving persistently
toward my goals.
I am now a high school student and I still play soccer as amember of the school’s soccer club. I will continue playing
soccer to demonstrate to children that even with a hearing
impairment, anyone can be a soccer player. I want to become an
adult who can encourage and support children who are introuble by sharing my experience.

Fostering Gender-equality Awareness at Home“You have a good husband!”I am a working mother. As I leave home for work earlier than myhusband, he clears the table after breakfast and takes the children to
daycare center routinely. The above remark is said to me almost every
time I talk about this family routine. In Japan, the number of families
with both parents working has been increasing recently, backed by thegovernment’s policy to promote women in workplace. Despite theincrease of working women, however, it seems that women are still
mainly responsible for taking care of children and doing household
work. Even working mothers accept the responsibility without
question and few expect their husbands to be willing to share theresponsibility. I was a full-time housewife until two years ago. I quit mycompany without hesitation before giving birth to my first child, andtook on the entire responsibility for childcare and housekeeping. This
was quite natural for me, as I had grown up in a family with a father
who worked until late at night and a mother dedicated to householdchores. When I decided to resume working, I sought a part-time jobthat would not pose an obstacle to my housekeeping duties and would
not require my husband to share my household responsibilities.
Thus I managed to juggle work, household responsibilities andbeing a mother to three children. However, one day, I developed acutedizziness. Subsequently, my husband asked me to teach him
housekeeping duties and gradually, I became less resistant to relying on
my husband in fulfilling household responsibilities. In this way, we
have come to cooperate with each other in household management.
Now, I feel it is natural for us to share household and childcare
responsibilities, because some housekeeping duties require physicalstrength, and I think it is wrong, considering that a child is a treasure

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for both parents, that all the childcare responsibilities are left to themother.
Of course, as a mother, I want to be directly involved in thegrowth of my children, and I am also aware that mothers cannot easily
ask for the cooperation of their husbands in household work in a
male-centered society where working long hours is taken for granted.
By improving such situations, I think we can deepen the relationships
between wife and husband and parent and child.
Today, mixed name lists are adopted in elementary schools andboth male and female students learn how to cook miso soup and use asewing machine in homemaking courses. On increasing occasions,
female students are elected as representatives of their year groups, andthe distinction between the roles of male students and those of female
students is now being removed at schools.
In Japan, female-specific words were previously used to represent“nurse” and “nursery teacher,” but now they are replaced withgender-neutral words. As this case indicates, potential gender
discrimination at workplace is being eliminated.
I hope that gender-equal education will prevail more and change
society, so that when our children, both male and female, become
adults, they can live fulfilling lives together, take the jobs they like, andplay active roles in society. I hope future society will be a society where
all people are respected for their individuality and recognized asvalued members of society without having unjust restrictions imposed
simply for being a man, woman or mother. Gender-equality awarenessshould be developed in the family in the first place. At my home, mydaughter and son are equally assigned housekeeping responsibilities
and they accept their respective responsibilities quite naturally.

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Community Human Rights Promotion Committee Workshop
Every year between October and November a workshop on human rights is held in each of Sakai City’s seven wards.
The workshops are attended by members of the Community Human Rights Promotion Committee as well as manymembers of the general public.
* Who are the members of the Community Human Rights Promotion Committee? Members of the Community
Human Rights Promotion Committee belong to the Human Rights Education Promotion Council. The members arerecommended by community representatives of the Federation of Sakai City Residents’ Association from among officialsof community residents’ joint associations, presidents of unit residents’ associations, members of various organizationsin school districts, and people who are enthusiastic about human rights education activities in individual school districts.

Ms. Kayoko Ito, Associate Professor of Osaka Prefectural
University, delivered a lecture titled “Preventing Child Abuse: What
We Can Do” at Nishi Cultural Hall on October 25, at Higashi Ward
Office on November 1, and at Minami Ward Office on November
22, 2016.
In the lecture, she discussed the present situation andproblems surrounding families with children, the current availabilityof child abuse consultation services in Japan and factors that leadto child abuse, as well as causes of child abuse and contexts inwhich child abuse can occur. In conclusion, she emphasized theimportance of creating a community and social environment wherefamilies with children are not left isolated.

Act on the Promotion of the
Elimination of Buraku
Discrimination Established
The Act on the Promotion of the Elimination of Buraku Discrimination
was promulgated and enforced on December 16, 2016. This Act
states that Buraku discrimination still exists today and stipulates that
Buraku discrimination cannot be permitted under any circumstancesand must be eliminated in line with the principles of the Constitution ofJapan, which guarantees fundamental human rights for all citizens.
Another noteworthy point is that the term “Buraku Discrimination”
is included in the name of the Act. Furthermore, the Act explicitly states
its basic principle is to realize a society free from Buraku discrimination
by seeking to improve the understanding of each citizen on the need toeliminate Buraku discrimination, thus requiring the State and local
governments to enhance advisory mechanisms and conduct
educational and awareness-raising activities for this purpose.
The Act also stipulates that the State shall conduct surveys on
the actual situation of Buraku discrimination in collaboration with local
governments. The enactment of this Act will encourage the State andlocal governments to take more positive measures towards theelimination of Buraku discrimination.

The Sakai City Ordinance on Promotion of Sign Language
and Other Means of Communication for Persons with
Disabilities will be enforced on April 1, 2017.

Things I Learned from Children in the War– The latest report on Syria and Afghanistan –On August 26, 2016, a Comprehensive Workshop was held, in which Mr.
Fumikazu Nishitani, a freelance journalist, delivered a lecture titled “Things
I Learned from Children in the War – The latest report on Syria andAfghanistan –.”Mr. Nishitani showed a video of Afghanistan and Syria that he himself
had recorded, and he spoke about the current situation in these countries.
Emphasizing that once a war starts, people are forced to live in misery, Mr.
Nishitani reminded the audience of the importance of peace.

Human Rights
of Children

Parents who abuse children are often socially isolated
people. Child abuse results from a combination of various factors
including less time shared with children, economic difficulty andstress, and the number of families in need of support is increasing.
Children are defined as those under 18 in the Child Welfare Act.
Child abuse is classified as physical abuse, including beating andkicking; neglect or failure to provide the necessities of comfortable
life for a child; psychological abuse by verbal aggression; andsexual abuse; in the Child Abuse Prevention Act enacted in 2000.
Abuse has an adverse influence on a child’s physical andPart 1: Comprehensive Workshop

mental condition and behavior. Abused children can develop a senseof distrust toward people and become rebellious. An overwhelming
majority of abusers are mothers, which indicates that mothers areunder much stress due to the responsibilities of childcare. Against
this backdrop, there is a growing recognition of the necessity ofreforming the way men work so that childcare responsibilities will beshared between mothers and fathers in a manner that reduces
mothers’ stress. The more parents enjoy bringing up children, theless child abuse is likely to occur. This lecture is expected toaccelerate efforts to build communities where no one is isolated andto help people develop more extensive human relationships.

We Will Never Allow Hate Speech
Recently, discriminatory remarks against certain ethnic and nationalgroups, referred to as ‘hate speech,’ are gaining greater social
attention. Such remarks can incite fear and hatred among the generalpublic, and also violate human dignity and nurture a sense of
discrimination.
Hate speech, which has been receiving wider coverage in themass media and on the Internet, has become a serious social problem.
Against this backdrop, the Act on Promotion of Efforts to
Eliminate Unfair Discriminatory Speech and Behavior against Persons
Originating from Outside Japan was enforced on June 3, 2016.
Obviously, no one, from any background, deserves to be subjected tohate speech.
We should work together to build a society where differences aremutually respected and everyone’s human rights are respected.

This Ordinance is designed to deepen public understanding of sign
language and encourage its dissemination by defining it as acommunication tool, and aims to facilitate the use of a wide range of ways
for persons with disabilities to collect information and communicate
with others, such as through sign language, voice translation, captioning,
Braille, tactile sign language, finger Braille and simple expression.

Sakai City Human Rights Education Promotion Council Newsletter Kokoro-no-Hibiki Vol. 38■ Actual situation in Afghanistan
I visit Afghanistan every year. Once a war starts,
people are forced to live in misery. Today, I will talkabout things I learned about the lives of Afghani
people and the environment surrounding them when
I visited the country five and half years ago. In
Afghanistan, one out of every six children is reported
to die before they become one year old, and about
50% of children are illiterate. In this country, women
suffer serious gender discrimination. Due to poverty,
many families think that education is not necessary
for girls.
■ Actual situation in Syria
For the past two years, the Islamic State has beenbombed in more than 15,000 air raids by developed
countries such as the US, France, Russia, and theUK, and its neighboring country, Turkey. While Japanis not directly involved in the air raids, this does notmean that Japan is not connected to what ishappening there, because Japan offers financial
support to fight terrorism. In this sense, we are allpart of the problem.
There seems to be a prevailing notion that Islam
is a horrible religion and that all Muslims are terrorists,
but this notion is wrong. Like Christianity, Islam values
peace, and the ratio of terrorists to the entire Muslim
population is negligible. An overwhelming majority ofMuslims hate terrorism, and strongly oppose war.

Part 2: Sectional meetings
In the second part of the workshop, fivesectional meetings were held, discussing(1) the Dowa issue; (2) the human rights
of women; (3) the human rights ofpersons with disabilities; (4) the humanrights of foreign residents; and (5) the
human rights of children.
Heated discussions took place inthese meetings, which dealt with,respectively, “The realities of the Dowa
issue in Sakai City,” “About Sakai Safe
City Program,” “Eliminating discrimination against persons with disabilities:
reasonable sensitivity needed,” “Thecurrent situation of foreign nationals in
our community: promoting mutual assistance among neighbors” and “Whatconstitutes child abuse?”

Sectional meeting on the Dowa issue

Sectional meeting on the human rights of children

Sectional meeting on the human rights of womenSectional meeting on the human rightsof persons with disabilities

Sectional meeting on the human rights
of foreign residents

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Report from Citizens’ Forum for Human Rights Protection

Please get involved in our activities!

Mongolia – A Country That Is Not as Familiar as We Think

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

On December 10, 2016, the Citizens’ Forum for Human Rights Protection was held, in which theparticipants of the IYS Study Tour to Mongolia reported what they had seen and learned in the country.

FY 2016 Study Tour to Mongolia
Dates

August 10 (Wed.) to 20 (Sat.), 2016

Report■General information about Mongolia
Mongolia has a land area about four times as large asJapan, while its population is about one third of Osaka
Prefecture’s. The capital is Ulan Bator.
For many Japanese, Mongolia is associated with vast
grasslands, nomads living with cattle, and ger (portableyurts). Nearly thirty years have passed since Mongolia
renounced socialism, however, very little is known to us
about the current realities of this country.

■Mongolia today
Upon arrival in Ulan Bator, we were impressed at the sightof rows of high-rise buildings, European-style houses andmodern condominiums. While traveling in the country, we
frequently saw cars stuck in traffic jams, high-rise buildings
under construction, and dense smog, all of which aresymbols of rapid urban development.
Currently, around 50% of Mongolia’s population of
about 3 million lives in Ulan Bator. We learned that rapid
urban development has given rise to serious social
problems, such as delays in infrastructure development,
accelerated environmental destruction, and a widening
economic disparity among citizens. Only a short distanceaway from the urban area, we met people with hard lives,
who had abandoned their nomadic lifestyles and moved tosuburban areas to seek jobs.
When travelling in the countryside, however, we saw
vast expanses of grassland and people living traditional
nomadic lives – the traditional image of Mongolia. We weredeeply impressed by the vitality of nomadic families who
work together to survive in a harsh natural environment
while preserving their traditional culture. However, the livesof these people are also affected by modernization and theintroduction of capitalism.

■Restoration of the natural environment
and environmental protection activities
In the past, indigenous wild horses called takhi roamed
Mongolia, but they became extinct in the country due tochanges to the environment and their habitat due toreclamation and other artificial interventions. In Hustai,home to takhi horses, a project was launched to restore
the natural environment and reintroduce takhi, which had
been lent to foreign countries, by releasing them into thewild. The project was completed successfully. Here,efforts are continuing to protect the natural habitat oftakhi horses.

The Human Rights Education Promotion Council is a civic organizationthat was established in July 1979 with the aim of creating a bright,
comfortable society, free from all forms of discrimination, not least Buraku
discrimination. Through its educational activities, the HREPC drives agrass-roots human rights campaign aimed at building a peaceful andprosperous society where the human rights of all people are respected.

■Nomadic people we met (1)We visited an elementary school for children of local andnomadic families in a village in a rural area of Sergelen. As
we played with the children, we found many pieces of
rubbish left around the school premises. People living withnature, including Mongolians, respect the earth and know
they are protected by nature. Traditionally, these people
have depended on the blessings of nature in all aspects of
their lives, including clothing, foods and housing, and any
waste from resources they needed was returned to nature,
which in turn helped to fertilize the earth. Against the
backdrop of lifestyle modernization, however, waste is nolonger regarded as something useful, and can even cause
environmental destruction. It is true that capitalism hasbrought material affluence and convenience, but people
have not been educated sufficiently on the risks that canaccompany a capitalistic lifestyle.
We taught children the danger of leaving rubbish
uncollected by means of a picture-card show and thenpicked up the rubbish together with them. The children
enjoyed collecting the rubbish, which soon filled manybags. We hope they will make it a routine to collect rubbish
and keep the school premises clean.

■Nomadic people we met (2)We visited a ger, a portable home used by nomadic
people. To welcome us, the nomad people butchered their
sheep in front of us and cooked the meat for us.
They slaughtered the sheep very quickly to minimize
its suffering without spilling a drop of blood on the earth forwhich they have much respect. This sight taught us theimportant fact that we sustain our lives by taking the lives ofother animals and plants. It was a very valuable experience.

■Goal of the International Youth Sakai
International Youth Sakai will promote international
exchange and contribution activities to provide
opportunities and experiences for learning, thereby
fostering mutual understanding to better cater to the needsof an ever-globalizing modern society. We will sharelessons learned overseas with our community members tocontribute to building a society where peace and humanrights are respected.

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Naohiro Kanamaru Chair

Member organizations and groups

Directors of the Council

International Youth Sakai
Sakai City Education Association
Sakai City Women’s Group for Social Rehabilitation
Sakai City Association for Sound Growth of Children
Sakai City Support Group for Foreign Residents’ Education
Federation of Sakai City Residents’ Association
Sakai City Social Education Committee
Sakai City Women’s Association
Sakai City Federation of Private Kindergartens
NPO Sakai Federation of Disabled People’s Organizations
Sakai City Liaison Council of Instructors for Youth
Sakai City Human Rights Education and Research Society
Sakai City Agricultural Cooperative
Sakai City PTA Federation
Sakai City Association of Childcare Organizations
Sakai City Welfare Association for Single-Mother Families
and Widows
NPO Sakai Federation of Private Educational and Childcare
Institutions
Sakai City Federation of Child Welfare Commissioners
Sakai Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Sakai City Association of Principals of Municipal
Schools
Sakai City Federation of Senior Residents’ Clubs
District Committee of the Sakai City Human Rights
Commissioners’ Association
Sakai District Committee of Administrative Counselors
Sakai City Liaison Council of Probation Officers
Sakai City Council of Social Welfare
Osaka Prefectural Association of Vocational Schools
Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Headquarters of Liberal
Dowa Association
Principals’ Association of Osaka Prefectural Schools in
8 zones of the 4th School District
Semboku Sumai Center, West Japan Branch, UR
Community Inc.
Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Federation of the
Buraku Liberation League
Business Members Committee, Sakai City Human
Rights Education Promotion Council
Religious Groups Committee, Sakai City Human
Rights Education Promotion

Chair

Naohiro Kanamaru(Business Members Committee of the Council)
Vice Chair Teruo Kubo (Federation of Sakai City Residents’ Associations)
Vice Chair Noriko Yamaguchi (Sakai City Women’s Association)
Vice Chair Nobumitsu Sugawara (Sakai City PTA Federation)
Vice Chair Tadashi Shiramoto(Sakai City Association of Childcare Organizations)
Vice Chair Yasushi Kasai(Sakai City Association of Principals of Municipal Schools)
Vice Chair Takayuki Nakagawa(Sakai Branch, Osaka Prefectural Federation of the Buraku Liberation
League)Vice Chair Seiji Yoshimura (Religious Groups Committee of the Council)
Treasurer Atsuko Shibata(Sakai City Women’s Group for Social Rehabilitation)
Treasurer Mitsuko Ogura(District Committee of the Sakai City Human Rights Commissioners’
Association)

Comprehensive Workshop

Ward Residents’ Festival

Citizens’ Forum for
Human Rights Protection

Street educational activities during
Human Rights Week

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