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A group of people is gathering on the east side of Shinjuku Station in central Tokyo on the evening of July 24, 2019. While there is nothing unusual in this per se, given that Shinjuku is one of the busiest districts in the city, the makeup of the people is strikingly different from a regular (...)
Abe Shinzo’s government was slow to respond to COVID-19, lagging behind neighbors like South Korea. The public health crisis has been worsened by the recklessness of Abe’s foreign policy, which relies upon an erratic US sponsor whose bases are a vector for spreading the disease.
The year 2020 (...)
Survivors will receive £22,000 each in compensation for their suffering under eugenics law
Japan’s government has issued an apology and awarded compensation to thousands of people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilised under a now defunct eugenics law.
As part of legislation that passed (...)
On May 18, a local group of human rights and peace activists cooperating with ATTAC Japan, organized the first “Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day” action in Japan in Kyoto to condemn the genocide against Eelam Tamil.
The first “Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day” action in Japan was joined by a dozen of (...)
In Japan, April is far from the cruellest month and perhaps rather the most optimistic, not least because it heralds the cherry blossom and the start of the new fiscal and academic year.
I recently had the somewhat unnerving experience of ploughing through a scrum of undergraduates on a (...)
Activists opposed to the emperor system in Japan have launched a petition calling for the abolition of regnal years (in Japanese, gengō or nengō). What does this tell us about republicanism in Japan?
Japan uses two systems to indicate the year: the Gregorian calendar and an era name system (...)
The nationalist pride and neoliberal economics peddled by Shinzo Abe promise only cheap escape from Japan’s problems.
Shortly after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in 2013, he declared triumphantly in a public speech, “Japan is back!” Since then, to the cheers of global capital, he (...)
What to make of the Tokyo gubernatorial election results? How can we organize a campaign to stop reactivating nuclear power plants that connects the whole country? How effective is the “single-issue” focus?
On 9 February, amidst the biggest snowfall in 45 years Tokyo held its gubernatorial (...)
1. Overview
Our action against the G8 Summit started with the International Coordination Meeting in March where some 10 overseas Asian activists came together to discuss how our action should be organized, and culminated at International People’s Solidarity Days in early July. However, (...)
The 2008 G8 Summit held in July in Hokkaido Prefecture was met by a “counter movement” comprising demonstrations, symposia, workshops and other activities. The Hokkaido capital, Sapporo, became a hub for Japanese and international groups and individuals, and actions also took place in and around (...)
Sapporo,
The northern-most and thinly populated island of Hakkaido, Japan, has seen the extreme security measures taken against those wishing to protest against the G8 summit.
Twenty thousand police officers had been mobilised for the summit itself, with an additional 20,000 to police (...)
Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese authorities’ heavy handed approach to security for the official (...)
Declaration of Participants in the International Solidarity Days of the G8 Action Network, July 8, 2008.
The G8 Summit opened in Hokkaido yesterday with the usual rhetoric of concern about conditions in Africa. These are statements that few people in Africa and the rest of the world take (...)
Hokkaido, Japan — 6 July 2008
We – environmentalists, social movements, peasant farmers, workers and civil society organisations – in solidarity with 23 Korean farmers and trade unionists who were denied entry to Japan denounce the authorities’ unwillingness to allow their participation in civil (...)
From the No! G8 Legal Team July 6, 2008
* Arrestees are still in jail and face years in prison * Local organizers may face arrests * Arrestees and organizers friends and families are facing harassment and possible house raids by police
Activists and organizers are asking local groups and (...)
Respect the rights of farmers to struggle against the food and climate crisis! Hokkaido, Japan--- 4 July 2008
Currently more and more people are suffering from hunger due the high food prices on the world market. Meanwhile, global warming is causing more droughts, floods, and other disasters (...)
The international farmers’ movement La Via Campesina invites the media to speak with representative of peasant farmers organizations, women and men, from around the world during the G8 summit on the global food and climate crisis. More than 600 farmers from Nouminren, the Japan’s Family Farmer’s (...)
JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S SOLIDARITY DAYS
July 4-8, 2008, Hokkaido, Japan
Resisting Free Trade, Militarism and Fighting for Real Solutions to Climate Change No more world creating inequality, poverty and social disparity We demand Climate Justice! Join the International People’s (...)
The representatives of the 8 richest countries of the world will meet on the 7th-9th of July 2008 in Hokkaido in Japan. These governments have imposed policies that are the root cause of the crisis in food and agriculture. This worldwide crisis started to emerged in the seventies and kept 852 (...)
The fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) started on 28th May in Yokohama, Japan. People concerned about TICAD IV organized a rally and assembly on 25th May ahead of TICAD IV, where comrade Trevor Ngwane was expected to speak as a keynote speaker to point out (...)
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