Repeated Massacres are Problems for All Humanity
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.
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A Festival of East Asia Labor Movements in Tokyo
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.
Hiroshima’s First Ever Pride Parade Will be Held on Oct. 11
Hiroshima’s first ever pride parade will take place at 2pm on October 11, 2025, with the help of Nina-Arica as well as other organizations and individuals such as Fe, HAP, Kurokawa Shoto, and Cocoiro.
Justice delayed for women in Japan
This summer, a Osaka superintendent for community safety in charge of investigating sex crimes against children was arrested on suspicion of the crime he was to probe.
Naomi Osaka, Rui Hachimura both loved and despised in Japan
With the number of foreigners living in Japan increasing as well as a rise of mixed babies being born, Japan could be seeing a diverse future where Japan-born multiracial people are much more common.
The Worker Cooperative Movement and Crises of Our Times
Emi Do and Matt Noyes, on working with worker cooperatives in Asia, and what role the worker cooperatives may play in building our movements and tackling the crises of our times.
Japan’s palm oil power push is faltering
In 2011, Japan faced an unprecedented energy crisis after the Tohoku earthquake had devastated the country and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The country’s entire nuclear fleet – 54 plants in total – was shut down for safety reasons. For months, the country faced power shortages and the