The protection of “fundamental human rights” in Japan

In the first section of this chapter, I will outline the history of human rights protection in Japan, as well as the basic conception of fundamental human rights, its variety, its nature, and its limits. In the second section of this chapter, I will examine to what extent these fundamental human rights are guaranteed in Japan in its actual administration, citing major cases of the Supreme Court of Japan. In the third section, I will evaluate human rights protection in Japan. Then I conclude with an observation on the future of human rights protection in Japan.