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Safe at Last: A Tunisian woman’s journey to freedom
It was on a basketball court that Nahed* finally knew she was safe.
“A few days after coming to Japan, I wanted to play basketball,” she says. “It was 11:30pm and there were two courts. Five or six guys were playing on one, so I started playing on the
Tackling women's under-representation in politics & business: Mari Miura
Mari Miura knows all about the gender equality situation in Japan, especially as it relates to parity in politics.
In her capacity as professor of political science at Sophia University, Miura was involved in the legislative process for Japan’s Gender Parity Law, which was enacted last year, when she
Learning from experience
Japan’s retirees offer solution to labor shortage conundrum
For Eiji and Kumiko Ishikawa, the working day starts as early as 5 a.m. Having loaded the requisite equipment into their van, they set off for their first job of the day, a 14-story high-rise in western Tokyo.
They unload
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
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
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