Justice delayed for women in Japan
This summer, a Osaka superintendent for community safety in charge of investigating sex crimes against children was arrested on suspicion of the crime he was to probe.
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diversity
Naomi Osaka, Rui Hachimura both loved and despised in Japan
With the number of foreigners living in Japan increasing as well as a rise of mixed babies being born, Japan could be seeing a diverse future where Japan-born multiracial people are much more common.
繰り返される虐殺 人類全体の問題：作家Ｖ・タジョさんが日本で講演―文学者の役割を強調
Hongkongers Establish Alliance in Japan to Continue the Fight for Democracy Across Asia
Don’t Look Back; an asylum story with hard lessons for Japan
Refugees in Japan help give rural communities competitive edge
Safe at Last: A Tunisian woman’s journey to freedom
environment
Japan’s palm oil power push is faltering
In 2011, Japan faced an unprecedented energy crisis after the Tohoku earthquake had devastated the country and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The country’s entire nuclear fleet – 54 plants in total – was shut down for safety reasons. For months, the country faced power shortages and the
Why workers and communities oppose Japanese incineration in Southeast Asia
東南アジアの労働者や地域が 日本の焼却炉に反対するわけ
Green Shield: How Japan is Pushing Carbon Capture in Southeast Asia
Climate Action and the lagging Japanese Automobile Industry: -Part I-
Technology and Labor’s role in Climate Action and Justice: -Part Ⅱ-
高くつく再生エネ、どうすれば 「まだ見ぬ技術で解決」は空論 労組も「気候正義」や政策提唱を 水素はカーボンニュートラルといえるか
Gender
May Day Eve Celebration Honors Women’s Unsung Labor
May Day Eve for Women was organized to recognize and re-evaluate unpaid and underappreciated domestic and care work in and outside of their homes. Held on April 30, the day before traditional labor celebration on May Day, in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, the event was for labor union members and
Unfiltered On the Ground 議員と話し、地道に夫婦別姓を訴える
表現の自由の勝訴に沈黙する 日本のメディア
生活保護でも路上生活居所を変え続ける負担も〜中高年女性のいま〜
コロナで離婚数増加 夫の申し出で急に家追われる妻 経済的DV証明しにくく
ジェンダー平等、女性登用を訴えメディア労組らが会見
Prizewinning writers help to bridge Japan's gender gap
Labor
The Worker Cooperative Movement and Crises of Our Times
Emi Do and Matt Noyes, on working with worker cooperatives in Asia, and what role the worker cooperatives may play in building our movements and tackling the crises of our times.
Mind the Gap
Dirty Fight
AI is running the lives of Delivery Workers in Japan
Why workers and communities oppose Japanese incineration in Southeast Asia
Struggle against Union Busting, Police Oppression over Fair Wage