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Trial Support Groups Lobby for Japanese Prisoner Rights, Fight to Rectify Injustices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

William Andrews
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Almost every one or two weeks a large envelope arrives in my mailbox. Opening it up invariably reveals a flier, newsletter or newspaper, often accompanied by a handwritten note with a tailored message. At the risk of sounding facetious, only my mobile phone provider is as punctual and frequent. But the deliveries are not from any commercial service. They are from a prisoner support group.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 21 , May 2014 , e2
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Resources and Further Reading:

Andrews, William, “Wife fights decades-long battle to free Shibuya riot leader Hoshino”, Japan Times, November 18, 2013Google Scholar
Hoshino Defence Committee, “Ai to kakumei” (Love and Revolution) [2013]Google Scholar
Sentā, Kyūen Renraku (Relief Liaison Center, or Kyuen Renraku Center): http://qc.sanpal.co.jp/Google Scholar
Steinhoff, Patricia G, “Doing the Defendant's Laundry: Support Groups as Social Movement Organizations in Japan”, Japanstudien, Volume 11 [1999]Google Scholar
Steinhoff, Patricia G; Zwerman, Gilda, “The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity”, Mobilization, Journal 17 [2012]Google Scholar
Steinhoff, Patricia G, “No Helmets in Court, No T-Shirts on Death Row: New Left Trial Support Groups”, in “Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan”, edited by Steinhoff, Patricia G (University of Michigan Press) [2014] (forthcoming)Google Scholar