Redefining gender and race in Japan：an introduction
　 Constructing Japanese state identity and interests
　 Global norms concerning women’s, children’s, and minority rights
　Policy, institutional, and legal changes concerning women’s and children’s human rights in Japan
　Grassroots mobilization：the pill, sexual harassment, military sexual slavery, domestic violence, and child prostitution
　Human rights education in Japan
　Japanese nongovernmental mobilization at the World Conference against Racism
　Domestic mobilization of global human rights norms：issue reframing, advocacy education, and leverage politics
　Conclusions：reconstructing Japanese political culture in the age of globalization