Japanese Parliamentarians and Representatives of Minority Nationals Condemned China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Law in Tokyo

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Tokyo: Four Japanese Bipartisan Parliamentary Groups- the parliamentary group monitoring China’s human rights violations and the three parliamentary groups supporting Tibet, Uyghur and Southern Mongolia- organised a press conference and issued a strong statement of concern on China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Law on June 30 at the Parliament building at Nagatacho, Tokyo. Lawmakers Furuya Keiji, Yamatani Eriko, Yamada Hiroshi, Ishibashi Rintaro, and Ueno Hiroshi represented the Parliamentary groups and said that Japan, as a democratic nation, cannot accept the law. The statement urged the Japanese government “to implement, strengthen, and expand monitoring of the human rights situation wit...

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