The Constitution of Japan is often described as a pacifist constitution for its Article 9 renouncing war and foreswearing war potential. Although this is usually attributed to starry-eyed idealists and steely-eyed realists in the occupation, both of which wanted to ensure Japan did not again challenge America’s position, there is also a cast to be made for crediting Shidehara Kijuro (1872-1951). Indeed, the case becomes even stronger if we think of the Constitution not so much as pacifist but more as internationalist―as evidenced in the Preamble’s trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world and its belief that no nation is responsible to itself alone. For it was Shidehara who was the ultimate internationalist. Born to a middle-class family four years after the Meiji Restoration, he went to Tokyo Imperial University and from there to the civil service, ending up at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, history took him to a number of foreign capitals and historic international conferences on his way to the foreign ministership and after he became foreign minister. Serving as foreign minister under a succession of prime ministers, he developed and staunchly promoted what came to be called Shidehara diplomacy―a foreign policy stance of not intervening in China, respecting the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and adhering to what were put forward as universal values. Yet despite his steadfast championship, this internationalist stance was weakened by widespread discrimination against Japanese (e.g., in America’s immigration laws) and fatally wounded by the Kwangtung Army’s rogue aggression in China. He resigned as foreign minister in 1931, while retaining his seat in the House of Peers, and was tapped by the occupation to be Japan’s first postwar prime minister, putting him in a position to influence the Constitution’s drafting. Shidehara’s was a principled life engagingly recounted in this informative biography by one of Japan’s foremost diplomat-turned-historians.

実際に受けた差別事例を分析し、当事者の視点からガイドラインを提示。 バニラ・エア事件が映し出したように、障害者が差別と感じることは障害のない人にとっては「わがまま」。何が差別で、「合理的配慮」はどこまで提供すべきか、実際に受けた差別事例を分析し、当事者の視点からガイドラインを提示。 【目次】 はじめに〜誰もが理解し合い尊重し合える社会へ〜 第Ⅰ部　イントロダクション　障害者差別を知ろう！ 第Ⅱ部　障害者差別のリアルとグッドプラクティス 第Ⅲ部　対応要領・対応指針　〜障害当事者から提言！ 第Ⅳ部　資料編 　 障害者差別解消NGOガイドライン作成プロジェクトへの助成を通じて おわりに〜ジャスティン・ダートと障害者差別解消法 【著者】 DPI日本会議 DPI(Disabled Peoples’International、障害者インターナショナル)」は国際的障害者運動のネットワークとして1981年に結成された、国連の正式協議NGO。DPI日本会議はDPIの日本国内組織として1986年に発足。身体障害、知的障害、精神障害、難病等の障害種別関係なく、あらゆる障害に関係した取り組みを行っている。地域の障害当事者声を集めて国の施策へ反映させ、障害のある人もない人も同じように暮らせる社会の実現を目指し、活動している。

Nomads, farmers, and trade: world history was born where these elements intersected. In this reconceptualized view, respected Japanese historian OKAMOTO Takashi locates history’s crucible in the boundary zones between settled agriculturists and nomadic peoples, where the Silk Road emerged as an early engine of trade and culture. Okamoto presents a new historical narrative which overturns Eurocentric perceptions of history, boldly and clearly reconfiguring the structure of world history in terms of economic ebbs and flows. When Asian military forces took to horseback some three thousand years ago, commercial capital developed that linked remote regions, innovating technologies, increasing productivity, and eventually culminating in the Mongol Empire. Their control of the Silk Road connected them with Near Eastern empires at the road’s western terminus, enriching the Greek and Roman civilizations of the Mediterranean world. But as crucial trade routes moved from inland to the coast during the Age of Discovery, the center stage of history shifted to Europe, which evolved its own financial and navigational technologies to win the global economic game. Looking anew at history from this perspective forces a reconsideration of accepted notions from “Greco-Roman civilization,” the “European miracle,” and the “Great Divergence” to “Japan’s modernization.” Through his unique overview of the whole of Eurasia and the maritime realm, from ancient times to the present, the author reorients our view of Asia’s role in global history.