Citation

Shigaki Y. Bull. Fac. Soc.Welf. Iwate Prefect. Univ. 2000; 3(1): 21-29.

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(Copyright © 2000, Iwate Prefectural University)

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Abstract

In this paper I will discuss why domestic violence became a main concern of the Japanese government's policy for women all of a sudden in the late 1990s. In the United States and Europe domestic violence had been recognized as one of the most serious problems based on sexual discrimination since 1970s, however, the Japanese government did not pay attention to this issue. I would like to emphasize the fact that the United Nations took up this problem in the early 1990s and that the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 focused on it. These organizational efforts caused the Japanese goverment's policiy change.