Amnesty International Japan

Amnesty International Japan (Amnesty Japan) is the Japan branch of Amnesty International, described on its official site as the world's largest international human rights NGO, founded in 1961. The Japan branch was established in Tokyo in 1970. Its activities are supported by volunteers, and its offices are located in Tokyo and Osaka. It states that it maintains political neutrality and receives no government subsidies, funding its work through membership fees, donations, and project income.

Amnesty International was founded in 1961 and is described on the official site as the world's largest international human rights NGO. Its origins trace to 1960, when British lawyer Peter Benenson read a newspaper article about two students in Portugal arrested and sentenced to seven years for toasting 'freedom'. On 28 May 1961, Benenson published an article titled 'The Forgotten Prisoners' in the British newspaper The Observer, calling on readers to speak out for people deprived of their freedom by state power. The article was translated and reprinted in newspapers across Europe and the United States, drawing more than 1,000 responses within a month. Benenson called such prisoners 'prisoners of conscience' and urged citizens worldwide to write letters to governments seeking their release. By the end of that year, the movement he started was named 'Amnesty International'. Amnesty Japan was established in Tokyo in 1970 as the Japan branch of Amnesty International.

Japan branch of an international human rights NGO; states it maintains political neutrality and receives no government subsidies.

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