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, by GYGI Fabio
Posters in Tokyo’s enormous Shinjuku railway station are normally used for advertising commodities like cosmetics and food, as well as new films. But occasionally you may happen across a poster with a birthday message and a picture of a young man, often from a boy band and typically with (…)
, by YOSHIKAWA Hideki
Abstract: 2,500 noble citizens came together on the 22nd of December in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan to raise their voices against the recent increase in sexual crimes committed by U.S. military personnel against local women and children, members of a community that U.S. soldiers are supposed to (…)
, by Japanese Researchers Specialized in Middle Eastern Studies
This is the third Appeal Issued by a Group of Japanese Researchers Specialized in Middle Eastern Studies.
The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. At least 43,000 people have been killed since last October, as a result of Israel’s full-scale assault and indiscriminate killing of civilians. (…)
, by BRUNET Luc-André, KARAMOUZI Eirini
The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the two US atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
The Norwegian Nobel committee recognised the organisation “for its efforts (…)
, by HATHERLEY Owen
Studio Ghibli is not the Japanese Disney but the anti-Disney. Dreamed up by animators with roots in the Japanese communist movement, its films celebrate creative labor and human solidarity against capitalism and war.
Owen Hatherley
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, by McCARTHY Mary M.
Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
April 2024 proved to be a busy month in Japanese-U.S. diplomacy.
The month saw a state visit to the U.S. by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that included a White House sit-down with President (…)
, by MAO Frances, SHIRAISHI Sakiko
Two more rulings in Japanese district courts have added weight to the push for same-sex marriage to be legalised.
This week, courts in Tokyo and Sapporo ruled the nation’s current ban was “unconstitutional”, in line with previous landmark verdicts.
The rulings in separate cases found that (…)
, by HIOE Brian
During the Rains is an insightful, character-driven look at sex work in Japan among young women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The film follows “Kotone,” an unemployed young woman, who enters the world of compensated dating and sex work. Though the film’s opening is a bit weak—raising some (…)
, by KAJIMOTO Tetsushi, LEUSSINK Daniel
TOKYO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor (7203.T), opens new tab did not respond to a trade union’s wage demands in a second round of pay talks held on Wednesday, a senior union official said, keeping investors guessing about the outcome of closely-watched annual wage talks due to conclude on (…)
, by YAMANAKA Karen
Last year, 2023, marked the 100th anniversary of the genocide of Koreans living in Japan following the Great Kanto Earthquake. The earthquake was a disaster of unprecedented scale, killing 105,000 people. Immediately after the earthquake, rumors such as “Koreans poisoned the well” and “Koreans (…)
, by YAMANAKA Karen
The kickback scandal involving the fundraising parties of the Abe faction, the largest faction of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has become a major problem that is shaking the foundations of the Kishida regime in Japan.
The Abe faction has sent many politicians to the heart of (…)
, by HONG Yong-hui
In July 2019, Johnny Kitagawa, one of Japan’s leading entertainment promoters, music producers and founder of top talent agency Johnny & Associates, died. A huge farewell party was held after his death. Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a telegram of condolence, praising the “achievements” (…)
, by CHATANI Sayaka
Eight years ago, Ayumi called Colabo out of desperation. She had received abuse from her parents, been kicked out, and gone to her grandmother’s house, where her uncle raped her. She got pregnant and underwent abortion. She told staff at the children’s welfare center what her uncle was doing to (…)
, by HONG Yong-hui
On August 21, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reported that a rare document listing the names and ranks of members of the Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious wartime Unit 731 (the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army) had been discovered in Tokyo. It is (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, KIMITOSHI Morihara
Two Japanese F-35s fighter jets along with a contingent of 55 Japanese military personnel landed in Australia on August 26 as part of Japan’s first air force deployment to a country other than the United States since World War II. The visit was organised as part of the Australia–Japan Reciprocal (…)
, by FINN Daniel, SURAK Kristin
The major capitalist economies of Europe and North America have been experiencing low rates of economic growth and population increase. Japan has been in that position since the 1990s, and its experience offers some important clues about what the future holds.
During the 1980s, Japan seemed (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Satoko Kishimoto was elected mayor of Suginami last June - the district’s first-ever female leader, fighting Japan’s sexist attitudes.
Satoko Kishimoto returned to her native Japan in April 2022. She was 47, and for 22 of those years, she had been in Europe, most of them spent working for the (…)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
Sakai, Yoshichi: Born in 1937. Entered Kyoto University in 1956. Joined in 1959 the Japanese Fourth International (FI) group – the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL), being its full-timer from 1963 to 1987. FI-International Executive Committee (IEC) member in the 1970s and 1980s, and (…)
, by SAKAI Yohichi
I participated in the student movement right after entering Kyoto University in April 1956, but up to that point I had never been a leftist boy, though I was somewhat fiercely independent and rebellious. The first leftist book I read was the “Communist Manifest”, but this was just after I (…)
, by Women’s Action Network (WAN)
For the LGBT Understanding Promotion Act, three drafts were submitted: the ruling party LDP/Komeito bill, the CDP/JCP/SD bill [former bipartisan proposal], and the JIP/DPP bill. The JIP/DPP version was eventually merged into the LDP/Komeito bill, and the four-party amendment was passed at the (…)
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