The latest news from these sources:LABORNET JAPAN パキスタン労組が救援要請アピール 死者5万人に及ぶ大規模な被害をもたらしたパキスタン地震。10月10日、全パキスタン労働組合連合（APTUF）は被災者支援の要請を世界の労働者市民に発した。APWSL(アジア太平洋労働者連帯会議）日本委員会は、これを受けて支援カンパに取り組むことを決め、広く呼びかけをはじめた。小泉首相の靖国参拝を糾弾する！ 10 … [Read more...] about Labor News Asia
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As always, information on many issues you will not easily find elsewhere, such as Yasukuni, the postal bills, Japan and the Iraq war, privatisation and so-called "small government," Okinawa, etc.More here … [Read more...] about Latest from Japan Press Service
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Much more is hereKoizumi's Kingdom of Illusion Nearly four years after he was first elected Prime Minister, promising to "reform" Japan even if it meant destroying his own party, the LDP, Koizumi did the unthinkable: he secured an even bigger majority by promising again to do more-or-less the same, having failed ignominiously in the meantime to advance a reform agenda. Though … [Read more...] about Latest from Asia Watch
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(Znet) U.S. War Crimes in Indochina and Our Duty to TruthHerbert P. Bix, The Faith That Supports U.S. Violence: Comparative Reflections on the Arrogance of EmpireCity of Nagasaki Peace DeclarationDavid McNeill, The Island Idyll and the US OccupationChung Chinsung, Resurgence of the Right and Japan's World War II AccountabilityThe City of Hiroshima Peace … [Read more...] about News from Japan Focus, Indochina, Bloomberg’s NY Prison
The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair
By Tessa Morris-SuzukiAt the start of each week, the commuter trains and subways of Japan are adorned with a mass of multi-colored advertisements, enticing the passengers to buy the latest of issue of the country's many weekly magazines. The advertisements are an art form in themselves. All follow a similar format. A tightly packed mass of text, some of it almost too small to … [Read more...] about The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair