Visible Minorities: Torture and Murder in Japan Detention Centers
News Headline: “Prosecutors drop case over death of detained Sri Lankan woman.”
News Headline: “Prosecutors drop case over death of detained Sri Lankan woman.”
Many commentators portrayed Article 8 of the new Part Time and Fixed Term Employment Act as the point at which Japan finally recognized the principle of same work-same pay for regular and irregular workers. But one word threatens to undo its promise–“unreasonable.”
Henry Johnstone Morland Scott-Stokes, patrician among Japan’s foreign correspondents since 1964, recently died in Tokyo at the age of 83, but not before he did untold damage by performing as a foreign handmaid to Japan’s fascists.
Masaaki Ito, managing director and general manager of the planning division of Yoshinoya, caused a stir when he made an “inappropriate remark” at a lecture for working adults at Waseda University.
One of the reasons why the Left, particularly the Progressives who have not enjoyed much power worldwide for more than a century, keeps losing is because of their fractiousness.
The Covid pandemic and desperation have driven many women into sex work in recent years, so what is the responsibility of society to cope with its dangers and oppressions?
At a recent tournament in Indian Wells, California, Japan tennis champion Naomi Osaka was heckled by some troll in the audience who shouted out “you suck!” while she was playing on court.
In August 2018 at the age of 19, Le Thi Thuy Linh arrived in Japan from Vietnam to work as a foreign technical intern. Little did she know that she would become a victim of tragedy, then convicted for it as a criminal.
Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, who died February 1, was an evil man. Any honest obituary would admit as such.
Remote work is no longer a remote concept. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen telework, work-from-home, and workations soar in the popular imagination, and indeed become a reality in many lives.