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Sex Slave issue and NHK Global Article 9 Campaign World Peace Now Japan Ehime Maru Incident Ehime Maru, Arrogance and Apologies An article by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post has caused quite a commotion. The article, viewable is NOT available online anymore without paying the Washington Post for it. luckily other people have saved copies of it: Here Here is an...
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1997-2002(Filed under 日本語 and Japan and Asia)http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/archivesindex.html#japansociet2002-2008Japanese/日本語http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/archivesindex.html#djapaneseJapan and Asiahttp://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/archivesindex.html#djapanandasia
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by the Study Group on Okinawan External AffairsOn Friday 13 November, US President Obama flew in to Tokyo. The unresolved issue of “replacing” Futenma US Marine Air Station has been removed from the talks agenda, because the two sides cannot agree on how to resolve it. Festering for more than 13 years, the issue has risen gradually to a head since the Hatoyama Government too office at the...
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http://www.japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/3173 Yoshiko NOZAKI and Mark Selden Japan’s neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century.1 Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese domestic as well as...
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Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children David McNeill, Matsutani Minoru, Alex Martin, Kamiya Setsuko, and Hongo Jun Introduction Two decades ago, as Japan’s economic engine hurtled along at full throttle, the Justice Ministry announced a policy that seemed to signal an end to its attempt to keep the world at bay. After...
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U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issueshttp://www.japanfocus.org/-Lawrence-Repeta/3147Lawrence RepetaIntroductionHow can Japan move toward gender equality, the elimination of authoritarian police practices and realization of the human rights enshrined in its laws and treaty obligations? Many Japanese human rights lawyers and activists...
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On May 14, 2009, about a thousand people participated in a rally held atHibiya Open-air Music Hall in central Tokyo for demanding the WorkerDispatch Law be fundamentally changed. All opposition parties have begunjoining their hands to “ban registration for dispatch” and a jointbill for it is in sight. Representatives from the Democratic Party ofJapan, the Social Democratic Party and the...
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The Diet on May 13 approved an agreement that requires Japan,
supposedly a sovereign nation, to pay the cost of constructing a
foreign country's military base outside Japan as part of a plan to
"relocate" a part of the U.S. Marine Corps to Guam from Okinawa.Under the agreement, Japan will pay about 2.8 billion dollars for the
construction of U.S. base-related facilities in Guam. The Diet approved...
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When: June 28, 2009 (Sun,.) 6:30 Where: Shogai gakushu Center (3 min walk from main (east) JR exit. As you exit, walk straight) Amnesty International Japan Kamakura group Contact: 0468-24-8683 (Clara Birnbaum) Dec, 1 `02, Afghanistan – Taxi driver, Dilawar, carrying 3 passengers, would never see his...
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JPRI Critique , Vol. XV, No. 2 (February 2009) Crafting a More Effective Approach toward North Korea by Peter M. Beck Testimony
before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and
Global Environment Hearing: “Smart Power: Remaking U.S. Foreign Policy
in North Korea,” February 12, 2009. I feel very honored to have the opportunity to discuss with you today how...
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あなたもメディアの発信者に！～MediRが2009年前期受講生募集昨 年、東京・高田馬場に発足した「市民メディアセンターMediR（メディアール）」が2009年前期（5～8月）の受講生募集を開始した。13講座の目的 は、市民や労働者が自らメディアを身につけ、発信するチカラをつけること。ビデオ・デジカメの使い方をはじめ、テレビ・映画の見方、ワーキングプア川柳・ 実践的英語講座など幅広い。また5/31にはレイバーネットの協賛企画「きょうからあなたもメディアアクティビスト一日講座」もある。ここでは、レイバー ネットやユニオンチューブの活用方法を学べる。たたかいとメディアは車の両輪。MediRでは、非正規・反貧困の現場でたたかう人々の参加を歓迎してい る。 詳細・MediRサイト「人間使い捨て」の働き方をやめさせよう！～派遣法集会に260人4 月13日、東京・クレオ講堂で「今やらずにいつやる！...
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From Japan Press Service Laid-off workers sue Isuzu MotorsTwelve contingent workers who have received dismissal notices from Isuzu Motors Limited filed a lawsuit on April 2 with the Tokyo District Court against the automaker, arguing that they had long been forced to work as "disguised contract workers" and that they have the legal right to continue to work as full-time workers. The plaintiffs...
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Screening of Toshikuni Doi's documentary
"Fallujah: April 2004" (English version) to mark the fifth anniversary
of the US attack on Fallujah in Iraq In
April and November 2004, the US military laid siege to the city of
Fallujah in northern Iraq, killing hundreds of civilians and reducing
much of the town to rubble. Western mass media largely ignored the
reality of what was happening on the...
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Which Side Are You On?: Hakenmura and the Working Poor as a Tipping Point in Japanese Labor Politics
From Japan Focus Toru Shinoda This article analyzes one of Japan’s most widely reported labor stories in recent years. The unusual degree of national attention given to this incident is evidence that the labor question has become a central issue in Japanese politics.1 It also offers insight into critical shifts in the landscape of both labor politics and labor policy,...
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Immediately following the ruling by the Osaka District Court on the Okinawa Mass Suicides Suit (March 28, 2008), I was being interviewed by a correspondent from a foreign newspaper, while the plaintiffs were already engaged in the appeals process. Almost by way of greeting, I was asked by the correspondent, “What has this trial meant to your life?” I replied by saying, “If I have spent half...
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