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Media industry triggers #MeToo movement in Japan
Japan’s #MeToo movement was sparked by a television reporter who said she was sexually harassed by the country’s highest-ranking finance ministry official.
“Can I touch your breast?” “Can I tie you up?” The voice of the man’s relentless sexual advances was heard on a tape that ran
Japan's women continue to suffer at hands of domestic violence
National campaign seeks to end violence against women
There’s an almost dispassionate matter-of-factness in the way Risa Tanaka describes how she was tortured by her husband. One of the methods he favored, she says, was to act as a police interrogator, asking senseless questions and, if he didn’t
On Being a Vietnamese Lifeline in Japan
Born in Vietnam, Takayama Yuki overcame her own struggles as a refugee in Japan and now spends her life helping others.
In a still largely homogenous country, Japan is home to about 412,000 Vietnamese, the third largest ethnic group behind Chinese and Koreans. About 2,316 Vietnamese were working