Published on April 17, 2019.
Using the executive list of IMADR as a starting point, this piece seeks to read the network, organizations, and ideological tendencies gathered behind it.
Through the intersecting presence of the Buraku Liberation League, the Japan Teachers’ Union, university circles, and U.N.-related human-rights figures, it examines the linkage between human-rights activism and political movements inside and outside Japan.

2019-04-17
International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR).
List of officers.
Co-chairs.
Nimalka Fernando.
Lawyer.
Komeshiro Musakoji.
Scholar of international politics.

Anyone with discernment should realize, simply by looking at the following list of officers and the images that follow, that my interpretation is correct.

International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR).
List of officers.
Co-chairs.
Nimalka Fernando.
Lawyer.
Komeshiro Musakoji.
Scholar of international politics.

Vice co-chairs.
Mario Jorge Yutzis.
Former member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Bernadette Etier.
Co-chair of MRAP, the movement against racism and for friendship among peoples.
Shigeyuki Kumikasa.
Chair of the Central Executive Committee of the Buraku Liberation League.

Managing director.
Fujihiko Nishijima.
Secretary-general, Central Secretary-General of the Buraku Liberation League.

Directors.
Romani Rose.
Chair of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.
Rodolfo Stavenhagen.
Professor at the Graduate University of Mexico / former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples.
Theo van Boven.
Professor at Maastricht University.
Burnado Fatima Natisan.
Advisor to the Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED).
Durga Sob.
Founding representative of the Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO).
Michael Sharp.
Assistant Professor at York College, City University of New York.
Tadashi Kato.
Chair of the Hokkaido Ainu Association.
Nanako Inaba.
Professor at Sophia University, National Network in Solidarity with Migrant Workers.
Hitoshi Okuda.
Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute.
Masaki Okajima.
Chair of the Central Executive Committee of the Japan Teachers’ Union.
Ryuko Kusano.
Chair of the Liaison Conference of Religious Denominations Working on the Dowa Issue, Otani-ha Shinshu.
Soo-il Kim.
Secretary-general of Kanagawa Mintoren.
Hyesung Shin.
Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University.
Takanao Iwane.
Chair of the Tokyo Corporate Liaison Council for Human Rights Awareness.
Atsuko Miwa.
Director of the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center.

Auditors.
Takashi Akai.
Central Finance Committee Chair of the Buraku Liberation League.
Makoto Kubo.
Professor at Osaka Sangyo University.

Advisors.
Helene Zackstein.
Specialist in gender and child protection.
Penda Mbow.
Professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.
Yoko Hayashi.
Lawyer, Chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
Kenzo Tomonaga.
Honorary Director of the Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute.
Ryu Matsumoto.
Former Minister of the Environment.

Secretariat structure.
Megumi Komori.
Acting Secretary-General.
Kenichi Wada.
Deputy Secretary-General, Central Executive Committee member of the Buraku Liberation League.
Catherine Cadou.
Deputy Secretary-General, Japan specialist.
Martin Kaneko.
Deputy Secretary-General, Professor at Japan Women’s University.
Masahiro Terada.
Deputy Secretary-General, Secretary-General of the Liaison Conference of Religious Denominations Working on the Dowa Issue.
Kyosuke Takahashi.
Deputy Secretary-General, National Corporate Liaison Council Working on the Dowa Issue.
Taisuke Komatsu.
Deputy Secretary-General, Geneva Office.

Staff.
Fumiko Kannari.