Existing in Japanese society (part 1): minority voices

Anne Gonon-Nérard, Professor Emeritus, Dôshisha University, Kyôto
"From the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the Fukushima disaster, la parole confisquée"

Wakana, a 25-year-old young adult, is publishing an updated version of her diary of March 11, 2011 and the years that followed, ten years after the Fukushima disaster. The text describes the trauma, suffering, loneliness and revolt felt in the face of the adult world, which quickly rejected the possibilities for social transformation that the disaster had raised. 
This presentation will analyze the process of subjectivation and social critique that Wakana engages from her individual experience, as well as the various speech devices offered in situations of suffering to Japanese children and adolescents.
 

Aline Henninger, detached researcher at the French Institute for Research on Japan, Tôkyô (UMIFRE 19)
"Teacher training on LGBT+ issues"

Japan is not one of the states with anti-discrimination legislation against sexual minorities, despite the passing of the "Law Relating to the Promotion of Awareness of LGBT Issues" (LGBT rikai zōshin hō LGBT理解増進法) in June 2023. The school institution therefore has no legal or political referent on which to base its consideration of LGBT+ issues. 
In 2000, the school experienced media and political denigration aimed at non-sexist education (gender free education) and against sex education in general. The 2000s constitute a period that feminists in Japan refer to as backlash, or "retour de bâton". The following decades present a contrasting situation with, on the one hand, the judicialization of LGBT+ movements and, on the other, the PLD remaining in power, perpetuating a political status quo marked by strong conservative influence.

Distance participation possible. 
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