The Japanese Journal of Law and Political Science
Online ISSN : 2432-1559
Print ISSN : 0386-5266
ISSN-L : 0386-5266
Present situations of "Ijime(Bullying)" in Japanese schools : From the view of Human Rights of Children
Keiko Tokuhiro
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1998 Volume 34 Pages 7-14

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This report is to clarify the present situcaton of "Ijime (Bullying)" at the school in Japan. For this purpose, this paper will focus from the stand point of Human right of children. Recently, it is natural that the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and was ratificated by Japan in 1994, is the basement of the consideration on the captioned subject. The basic spirit of the Convention is the participant of children's human right. In order to materialize this spirit, each ratificated countries shall assure the right ot express those views freely in all matters affecting to the child. Furthermore, each country entered into the Convention shall assure the right of the child to take rest and to spare the time for leisure. The contracted countries shall undertake to submit to the Committee with regards to the rights of the children on the report of the measures they have adopted which may have an effect to the right recognized herein and further progress made by the enjoyment of those right. The report was presented by Japanese government in 1995 to the Committee, however, the content doesn't contain the "Ijime (Bullying)" happening in the many schools in Japan. It is essential to recognize that both bullier and bullied children shall have the equivalent right. Important is that the bullying in the infringement of children.
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