The USA, post-1945, has deployed public diplomacy to lead the global fight against sexual and labour trafficking. This book traces how the US has named and shamed Japan to improve its human rights performance as measured by US annual listings of trafficking activity.
Comprising two volumes, this is a pioneering study which examines how the United States has deployed public diplomacy with Japan to confront Japanese sexual and labour trafficking, while also charting the successes and failures of the US’s own record on anti-trafficking practices at home and abroad. The subject is an important aspect of human rights advocacy where much remains either unknown or imprecise with regard to a phenomenon that involves millions of people across all continents and within all nation states. The approach is largely chronological and country-based, using documentary evidence from 1945 onwards to trace national and international responses to what is frequently termed ‘modern slavery’, placed within the broader and still evolving context of respect for the full panoply of human rights. Volume 1 comprises the analysis, debates and outcomes, together with ten primary documents relating to the years 1945–1999, as well as a bibliography and index. Volume 2 comprises a further 34 documents relating to the years 2000–2020, including international covenants, US Trafficking In Persons and Congressional reports, and Japanese government papers.
VOLUME 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, ASSESSMENTS:
Chapter 1
Transformation: The Post-War Rise of Human Rights
Chapter 2 Start-Up:
Occupied Japan and the Allied Reforms Era
Chapter 3 Leadership: The US and
Anti-Trafficking
Chapter 4 Catch-Up: Japan and Anti-Trafficking
Chapter 5
Challenges: Current US Realities
Chapter 6 Assessments: Trafficking to
Mid-Century Postscript 108 PRIMARY SOURCES 19451995:
1. US Initial
Post-Surrender Policy for Japan, The Dept of State Bulletin, 23 September
1945
2. The Constitution of Japan, Promulgated on November 3, 1946
3.
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 10 December 1948
4.
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 January
1976
5. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 23 March 1976
6. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 3 September 1981 169
7. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2
September 1990,
8. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights
of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, 18 December 1990
9.
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 25 June 1993
10. Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action: the Fourth World Conference on Women, 15
September 1995 Bibliography, Index. VOLUME 2 : PRIMARY SOURCES 20002020:
11.
President Clinton, Statement on Signing the Victims of Trafficking and
Violence Protection Act of 2000, 28 October 2000
12. Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children,
Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational, Organized
Crime, UN General Assembly resolution 55/25 of 15 November
200013. The
Yokohama Global Commitment 2001, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
14.
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act 2000: Trafficking in
Persons Report, June 2002
15. H.R. 2620: Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act, 26 June 2003
16. The International Movement Against All
Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) and Japan Network Against
Trafficking in Persons (JNATIP), Recommendations from Japan based NGOs for
Solidarity and Joint Action in Combating Trafficking in Women and Children,
Hanoi, September 2004
17. UNDOC, Global Report on Trafficking in Person,
February 2009
18. TIP Report: Ten Years of Partnering to Combat Modern
Slavery, 4 June 2010
19. United Nations Global Plan of Action against
Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2010
20. Congressional Research Service,
Trafficking in Persons: US Policy and Issues for Congress, 23 December 2010
21. UN Human Rights Council, Japan, National Report, measures to combat
trafficking in persons, 6 August 2012
22. Japans 2014 Action Plan to Combat
Trafficking in Persons, 16 December 2014
23. Japans Human Rights Commitments
and Pledges (Candidature for HRC membership 20172019), 15 July 2016
24. End
of visit statement, United States of America (616 December 2016) by Maria
Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons,
especially Women and Children
25. US Dept of State 2017 Trafficking in
Persons report on USA: Tier 1
26. US Dept of State 2017 Trafficking in
Persons report on Japan: Tier 2
27. US Dept of Justice, Key Legislation on
Human Trafficking, 6 January 2017
28. Congressional Research Service, Human
Trafficking: New Global Estimates of Forced Labor and Modern Slavery, October
18, 2017
29. US Dept of State 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report, Tier
Placements
30. US Dept of State 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report on U.S.A,
Tier 1
31. US Dept of State 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report on Japan, Tier
1
32. UN General Assembly Report by Special Rapporteur: Contemporary forms of
slavery, including its causes and consequences, 10 July 2018
33. UN Human
Rights, Ratification Status for Japan
34. UN Human Rights, Ratification
Status for United States of America
35. The Global Slavery Index 2018, Walk
Free Foundation
36. President Donald Trump on Trafficking, 11 October 2018
37. US Dept of State, Trafficking in Persons Report June 2019, Tier
Placements
38. US Dept of State, Trafficking in Persons Report June 2019,
Country Report Japan, Tier1
39. US Dept of State, Trafficking in Persons
Report June 2019, Country Report USA, Tier 1
40. US Dept of State,
Trafficking in Persons Report June 2020, Global Law Enforcement Data
41. US
Dept of State, Trafficking in Persons Report June 2020, Tier Placements
42.
US Dept of State, Trafficking in Persons Report June 2020, Country Report
Japan, Tier2
43. US Dept of State, Trafficking in Persons Report June 2020,
Country Report USA, Tier 1
44. US Dept of State, International Conventions
Relevant to Combating Trafficking in Persons.
Roger Buckley is academic visitor NI at St Antony's, Oxford and teaches at ICU Tokyo. He is author of US-Japan Human Rights Diplomacy Post 1945 : Trafficking, Debates, Outcomes and Documents, two vols, (Renaissance Books - Amsterdam University Press, 2021), and War and Rumours of War : Japan, the West and Asia Pacific , 1918-1945 (ed and intro), Two Series. Series One: 1918-1937: From Armistice to North China, vols 1 - 6, (Renaissance Books & Eureka Press Kyoto, 2016). Series Two: 1937-1945 : From Manchuria to Tokyo Bay (Renaissance Books & Eureka Press Kyoto, 2017).
