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Saul J. Takahashi is a human rights lawyer currently located in Tokyo, where he is the Japan Representative for the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and teaches human rights related courses at several universities. He is also doing research on the rights of Muslims in Japan as a doctoral candidate at Waseda University. From April 2019, he will be employed as Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Osaka Jogakuin University. Takahashi has worked at Amnesty International in Tokyo and in London and for international organisations in Geneva and Vienna, and from 2009 to 2014 was Deputy Head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. He holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of Essex and is the author of several books, including Human Rights and Drug Control: the False Dichotomy, Human Rights, Human Security, and State Security: the Intersection (ed.), and Paresuchina-jin ha kurushimi tudukeru: naze kokuren ha kaiketsu dekinai no ka [The Palestinian People Continue to Suffer: Why the UN Can’t Solve the Problem].
"""This rich collection relies on the deep expertise of the authors, many of whom have worked in international organizations that investigate human rights issues, including United Nations bodies…[It] should become a standard reference for writers concerned with the plight of women, minorities, and others who do not enjoy the favored status of mainstream members of Japanese society."" - Lawrence Repeta, The Magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Volume 53 · No. 1"
