Bread & Roses: Tokyo Tribunal Turns Tables on Shane Language School
Tokyo General Union President Hifumi Okunuki outlines an important legal battle over paid leave and workers’ rights in Japan.
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Bread & Roses: Is Your Attending Physician Working for Free?
Concern is growing over what is becoming of Japan’s healthcare environment, including the issues of medical interns’ death from overwork and being driven to suicide due to overwork.
Bread & Roses: A Leftist Case Against Hate Speech Laws in Japan
Hating hate speech isn’t the same as agreeing that it should be regulated under the law.
Bread & Roses: My New Column for Shingetsu News Agency
Between 2012 and 2018, I wrote a monthly column called “Labor Pains” for the Japan Times. I have left Japan Times. I am so delighted to begin a new column this month called “Bread and Roses” for the Shingetsu News Agency.
Working the Japanese People to Death
Hifumi Okunuki, President of the Tokyo General Union (Tozen), discusses the unwillingness of Japanese policymakers to protect Japanese employees from death by overwork. A report by contributing videographer Sam King.
