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Marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 2020 was supposed to be an important year to have achieved progress on gender equality. Unfortunately, however, 2020 became overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has worsened existing (...)
JAPAN’S #ME-TOO 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 in the weekly (...)
More than 18,000 people in Japan signed a petition calling for a law that would bar employers from requiring women to wear high heels.
TOKYO — Japan is the latest battleground for women revolting against the tyranny of high heels, as a fledgling movement seeks government protection from (...)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The Japanese government has expressed its displeasure to U.S. officials over a plan to unveil in California next week a monument dedicated to Korean “comfort women” forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II, Japan-U.S. diplomatic sources said (...)
Five Nobel laureates slam Hashimoto over wartime sexual servitude remarks
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Five female Nobel Peace Prize laureates issued a statement in Northern Ireland on Thursday slamming Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto over his remarks on Japan’s wartime system of military brothels.
The five (...)
OSAKA — The list of those in and out of Japan, but especially in the United States, who scorn and deride Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto for his justification for the wartime “comfort women” is growing daily, presenting a unprecedented crisis (...)
Hashimoto says ’comfort women’ necessary for soldiers
OSAKA (Kyodo) — Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who co-heads the opposition Japan Restoration Party, said Monday he believes the system to recruit women into sexual servitude was “necessary to maintain discipline” in the Japanese military during (...)
A human rights group urged the government Friday to start talks on how to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery in East Timor, an initiative that comes just days after the 71st anniversary Wednesday of the Imperial army’s invasion of the then-Portuguese colony.
In a statement signed (...)
Abe risks much with sex slave issue — Revisiting ’93 apology would spark anger worldwide
Among the components that make up the conservative agenda advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, one stands out for its potential to inflame international relations: a review of Japan’s official stance on (...)
No evidence sex slaves were taken by military: Hashimoto
OSAKA – Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said there was no evidence that the Imperial Japanese Army forced Korean women and girls into sexual servitude at wartime military brothels.
In response to a question Tuesday about South Korean (...)
Introduction by David H. Slater From the very first, it has been quite difficult to politicize earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku, despite the poor planning, the slow and uneven response, the failure to provide aid in a timely way in the days and weeks afterward, and the often poorly (...)
Message of Solidarity to Advocates of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Japan.
May 2010
As leaders of the G-8 prepare for the June 2010 ministerial meeting in Canada, at which maternal and child health initiatives will be under the spotlight, the Women’s Global Network for (...)
There will be a Women’s march in Tokyo on 7th March, tomorrow. According to the weather forecast, it will snow here.
This march will be the first one organized by independent and different women groups & intentionally and consciously associated with WMW. Key persons of organizers are (...)
Keiji Hirano, Tokyo — Human right groups in Japan and East Timor have launched a campaign to donate history teaching materials to the newly independent nation that focus on the struggles of women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II.
Based on interviews (...)
(New York, September 14, 2006) – A move to eliminate “sexual orientation” from a Japanese city’s groundbreaking antidiscrimination ordinance would be a damaging blow to the cause of full equality, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the city’s mayor. The city assembly of Miyakonojo will (...)
Career opportunities have improved greatly for many Japanese women in recent years. More large companies are willing to hire them as career-track employees, and their share of elite civil servant positions has been growing. Although female students at my institution, Osaka City (...)
Muto: The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery held in December 2000 was of great significance for post-war Japan. In many ways, we were entering a new period of the post-war era during this time. The trend towards legitimatising pre-war nationalism and (...)
Demeaning counter-movements that “bashes” gender equality are spreading quietly but rapidly in Japan. Certain media publish demagogues which undermine gender equality movements. Legislators in both national and municipal assemblies employ such demagogues as leverage to attack gender equality (...)
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