Japan: New Prime Minister Should Address Rising Xenophobia

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Demonstrators take part in a “protest rave” against racism ahead of the upper house election, in Tokyo, Japan, on July 13, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File (Bangkok) – Japan’s first woman prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, should promote new legislation prohibiting discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or religion, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2026.The unprecedented number of migrant workers living and working in Japan, along with record numbers of foreign tourists made immigration and xenophobia core themes of July’s…

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