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  • Chapter Three - The History of Disability Rights Activism in Korea and Japan

  • from Part I
  • Celeste L. Arrington, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    From Manners to Rules
    Published online:
    29 August 2025
    Print publication:
    07 August 2025, pp 55-93

  • Summary

    Part I comprises three chapters focused on the history of disability rights activism and recent reforms related to accessible public transit and disability discrimination. Chapter 3 overviews historical parallels in the marginalization of people with disabilities, the development of welfare policies for them, and the emergence of independent living movements in Japan and Korea. Activism by (rather than for) Japanese and Koreans with disabilities, along with growing rights consciousness, accelerated in the 1990s and 2000s through ties with transnational activist networks and negotiations around the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As background for the next two chapters, Chapter 3 surveys recent reforms and the organizational ecology of disabled persons’ organizations and lawyers, who activate the causal mechanisms and thereby contribute to the legalistic turn in governance.