2009年6月5日（金） 20年経って振り返る天安門事件 中国の反体制運動家ワン・ジュンタオ（王軍濤）と米ジャーナリストのフィリップ・カニンガムに聞く20年前、民主化を要求して北京の天安門広場に集まっていた学生たちに軍が発砲しました。世界各地で天安門事件20周年の行事が行われる中、著名な中国の反体制運動家ワン・ジュンタオとアメリカ人ジャーナリスト、フィリップ・カニンガムに話を聞きます。ワンは禁固13年の有罪判決を受け、現在は米国で亡命生活を送っています。カニンガムは天安門事件の際に学生たちのデモに参加しており、このほど Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of … [Read more...] about DemocracyNow! Japan/デモクラシー・ナウ
Foreigners stage a sit-in outside Diet to protest immigration bills
JUNE 3About 20 foreign workers [including members of NUGW Tokyo Nambu] and their supporters staged a sit-in Tuesday in front of the Diet to demand that bills to revise the immigration law be scrapped.The bills, now before the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee, would put a greater burden on foreign workers and violate their rights, participants at the sit-in argued.“The … [Read more...] about Foreigners stage a sit-in outside Diet to protest immigration bills
Global Agribusiness, SARS and Swine Flu
Global Agribusiness, SARS and Swine Fluhttps://japanfocus.org/-Mike-Davis/3134Mike DavisMike Davis, whose 2006 book The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu warned of the threat of a global bird flu pandemic, explains how globalized agribusiness set the stage for a frightening outbreak of the swine flu in Mexico.The Spring Break hordes returned from Cancún this … [Read more...] about Global Agribusiness, SARS and Swine Flu
Why Punishing North Korea Won’t Work . . . and What Will
Leon V. Sigalhttps://japanfocus.org/-Leon_V_-Sigal/3163Despite the promise of change, the Obama administration has started to address North Korea just as the Clinton and Bush administrations did--accusing it of wrongdoing and trying to punish it for its transgressions. As Pyongyang's recent nuclear test demonstrates, the crime-and-punishment approach has never worked in … [Read more...] about Why Punishing North Korea Won’t Work . . . and What Will
The Homecoming of Japanese Hostages from Iraq: Culturalism or Japan in America’s Embrace?
The Homecoming of Japanese Hostages from Iraq: Culturalism or Japan in America’s Embrace?Marie Thorstenhttps://japanfocus.org/-Marie-Thorsten/3157In the spring of 2004, five Japanese civilians doing volunteer aid and media work in Iraq were kidnapped, threatened and released unharmed by Iraqi militant groups in two separate, overlapping incidents lasting just over one … [Read more...] about The Homecoming of Japanese Hostages from Iraq: Culturalism or Japan in America’s Embrace?