SMJ is an NGO advocating for the rights and dignity of migrants and people with multi-cultural backgrounds living in Japan. We aim to create a society in which everyone can feel secure in being their unique selves, a society in which diversity is recognized as a strength. Towards this purpose, SMJ builds partnerships with organizations and individuals sharing our mission across Japan and through this network organizes and coordinates a wide variety of programs. We also foster alliances with overseas NGOs to promote the rights of migrants from a transnational perspective.

To ensure the rights and dignity of migrants and people with multi-cultural backgrounds, SMJ lobbies for the reform of policies and systems at a national level of politics, in alliance with organizations and individuals sharing our mission across Japan,

SMJ publicly transmits the voices and lives of migrants and people with multi-cultural backgrounds living in Japanese society through campaigns, web media, the periodical “M-net,” and other publications. In this way we contribute to the recognition of the diversity brought by such individuals as members of civil society.