Meet the mixed-race millennial who just might represent the future of Japanese politics
“I think it’s incredibly important that Japan, as the strongest democratic economy in Asia, takes the role of steering that leadership forward and making sure that our international rule-based order is in place, making sure that values like democracy and human rights are protected in the global arena,” she says.
And that’s what triggered me to sort of try to be the change myself. I haven’t seen anyone who looks like me in politics. I don’t feel represented in my democracy. And if I feel that way, perhaps more people also feel that way. And if I want to see change, I should probably be the change myself. I would argue that conservatism, as the LDP sees it, and the way we see it in Japan is truly united with this idea of freedom and respect for democracy. I know that conservatism often gets characterized as something that’s contrary to inclusion, but I just don’t think that’s true.
Having worked on human rights for a long time myself, I don’t think there is any rank to human rights violations. Every violation is a violation. But that said, in the Uyghur region, I think we are seeing, frankly, one of the worst cases of human rights violations of our time. And I think it is a test to the global community as to how you react to this.
But I think one of the things that’s missing, being from the community myself, in terms of political discourse on this, is really paying attention to the hardships that this community faces because they have family in the region. And so a lot of their life is secure and safe here and is already established here. They live well here.
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