FROM DEBITO ARUDOU:----------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: With Koizumi's new cabinet push to make Japan "the world's safest country again", dovetailing with "halving the number of illegal foreigners" within an impending time frame (), Japan's Bureau of Immigration has decided to deputize the whole country, creating a website where you can report the … [Read more...] about -IMMIGRATION’S NEW SNITCH WEBSITE
Tokyo Alien Eyes
The newsletter edited by F. Takano, the founder of Tokyo Alien Eyes(TAE), a nonprofit organization for international students/residents in Japan.?@?@NOTICES! PARTICIPANTS WANTED College student participants in a discussion with Chinese students graduating from a Japanese language school … [Read more...] about Tokyo Alien Eyes
-God, Blair and the Bomb: A tentative search for moral clarity
by Eric A. SmithLONDON, Mar 7 -- Well, now it's official.Blair has joined Bush in declaring their mutual global campaign a 'war on evil', thus officially designating our bombs holy and the enemy's evil, should we have harbored any doubts.So while we poison civilians with depleted uranium for the "greater good", our enemies are using (or were maybe perhaps planning to … [Read more...] about -God, Blair and the Bomb: A tentative search for moral clarity
-Under-reported Japan stories
The Asahi Shimbun has a really ridiculous article on the Kisha Club system, implying that the only criticism is that of foreign news organizations.https://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200402210203.htmlWhat is totally lacking is any sense that the Kisha club system helps to promote censorship.A site that sheds light on this is that of Ken'ichi Asano, journalism … [Read more...] about -Under-reported Japan stories
-One of the ongoing battles against global sweatshops (Sara Lee)
(See below for how YOU can help support the victims of Sara Lee)More than a year later, Leonor Castillo is still a very angry woman. She sits at the kitchen table of her two-room cinderblock house and talks in a gentle voice that mutes the rage about her six years at the plant: the sudden reorganization of the production system with the result that everyone seemed to be … [Read more...] about -One of the ongoing battles against global sweatshops (Sara Lee)