Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Postgraduate School Universitas Airlangga : "Implementation of Climate Change Agreement to Meet Sustainable Development Goals" (ICPSUAS 2017)

Development of Legal Theory for Environment Protection and Remedy for Victims in Japan

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Yuzuru Shimada
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Yuzuru Shimada
Available Online August 2017.
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10.2991/icpsuas-17.2018.5How to use a DOI?
Keywords
pollution; environment; Japan; legal aid
Abstract

This paper argues how Japanese law and jurisprudence contributed to relieve grievance of victims in environmental pollution caused by economic activities. Japan has experienced severe environmental pollution along with its economic growth since the 19th century. However, the grievance of pollution victims had been almost ignored. In the late 1960s, victims began court struggle to recover their right to life. Also, the court and the government addressed this problem seriously. Remarkable progress is the series of judicial decision regarding the most serious pollution cases, and those decisions devised several significant legal theories which mitigate the difficulty of pollution victims in challenging against polluting companies. Now, economic activities of the industrial company are strictly regulated by law which put a priority on people's life and health to companies' economic rights. Even though it, "public interest" are still used as a reason to limit peoples' rights to healthy life.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Postgraduate School Universitas Airlangga : "Implementation of Climate Change Agreement to Meet Sustainable Development Goals" (ICPSUAS 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2017
ISBN
10.2991/icpsuas-17.2018.5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icpsuas-17.2018.5How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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