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Japan’s parliament has adopted a resolution on the serious human rights situation in China, and asked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government to take steps to relieve the situation, ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics.
Japan has already announced it will not send a government delegation to the Games, following a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott over concerns about China’s human rights condition, although Tokyo avoided explicitly labelling its move as such.
The resolution, adopted by the lower chamber, said the international community has expressed concerns over such issues like the violation of religious freedom in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tibet and Hong Kong.
Human rights issues cannot just be domestic affair, because it holds universal values and are a rightful matter of concern for the international community.
The parliamentary resolution called on the Japanese government to work with the international community in addressing the issue.