Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI〈MOYAI〉assists needy people who are re-starting a new life, aiming to become self-reliant.Being economically poor, and being isolated in human relations --- these are the two common problems the poor and needy, such as home-less people, ex-homeless, recipients of daily life security service, domestic violence victims, disabled people have to face … [Read more...] about Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI
Japan and Asia/日本とアジア
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
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?
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY at TOKYO SPRING
On Sunday 14 June at 4pm at Heaven's Door, Shimokitazawa the English language group will present The War on Democracy by John Pilger. There will be a twenty minute presentation by Rab. Details of the film are below, click here for a link to an article on Znet about the film.. and the film will be followed by open discussion and a Q&A.We will … [Read more...] about THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY at TOKYO SPRING