The extraterritorial human rights obligations of Japan in regard to Fukushima nuclear contaminated water

This article adopts a human rights approach to observe Japan’s policy on releasing nuclear contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. It aims provide new discourse for stakeholders push Japan deal with Fukushima’s in responsible way. In doing so, it needs elucidate an important normative question, namely whether State has extraterritorial obligations, given that international law was traditionally perceived relationship between and its population. stereotype would frustrate world people challenge decision based rights. era of economic globalization, however, there is increasing need application treaties. Human theory practice have gradually developed jurisprudence obligations States interpretation jurisdiction. Such expanded from regulating overseas military actions tackling trans-boundary environmental harms. latter sense, Fukushima incident good case, which urgently calls comprehensive examination obligations. undertakes such task by providing logical treaty provisions. argued release entails variety respect, protect, fulfill part Japan.