Aid worker Nahoko Takato continues her life work breaking cycles of violence

Workers in Japan find better legal protection than their American counterparts

Award-winning Ivorian writer Veronique Tadjo believes writers have a responsibility to help build an alternative world to give hope and remember never to repeat tragedies through literature.

Next week, Tokyo will be host to the first-ever East Asia LaborFest, bringing together workers, labor organizers, and activists from across the region for an exhibition of Asian labor history, seminars and talks about regional and country-specific struggle and film screenings.