Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis

Abstract

What counts as global health? There has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. By reviewing Japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upon global health.

Keywords

• Japan
• Global Health
• Refugees
• Displacement