Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Recognize the competence of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider individual complaints. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Establish a national human rights institution. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Recognize the competence of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider individual complaints. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against women. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Fully involve civil society in the follow-up to the UPR process at the national level | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Harmonize the procedures for reviewing asylum decisions with the Convention against Torture and other relevant human rights treaties and provide State legal aid for migrants who need it | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Develop a mechanism to ensure the prompt return of children who have been wrongly removed from or prevented from returning to their habitual place of residence. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take measures to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Encourage the continued taking of measures relating to discrimination against women in particular to raise the age of marriage to 18 for women as for men. | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Address the problems faced by women belonging to minorities. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Systematically and continually integrate a gender perspective in the follow-up process to the review. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Consider ratifying the First OP-ICCPR and the Second OP-ICCPR, the OP-CAT, the OP-CEDAW, and the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the OP-CAT and the OP-CEDAW | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take concrete measures to address, once and for all, the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and other violations committed in the past in other countries including Korea. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take immediate measures to address the situation of the continued distortion of the history in Japan, since this is indicative of the refusal to address past violations and the danger of its reoccurrence, and recommended immediate measures to address the situation, as also called for by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against Koreans in Japan. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 1980. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Issue a standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 1980. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Re-examine the use of prolonged police detention. | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the OP-CAT | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Institute mechanisms to enhance procedural guarantees for the detention of detainees. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Review urgently the use of death penalty with a view to a moratorium and abolition. | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Finalize the legislation needed to establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Set up an independent mechanism for investigating complaints of violations of human rights. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Urge Japan to seek ways to initiating a dialogue with its indigenous peoples so that it can implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Respond sincerely to the recommendations of the United Nations mechanisms (Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee against Torture) on the issue of comfort women during the Second World War. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Adapt national legislation to bring it into line with the principles of equality and non-discrimination | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Abolish the system established to call upon citizens to denounce anonymously, on the Ministry's website, migrants suspected of being in an irregular situation. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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