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POPULATION-JAPAN: Tougher Legal Weapons Needed against Trafficking
New, special legal weapons and alternative protection measures are needed to combat gross human rights abuses against undocumented foreign women lured into Japan's sex industry, experts here say.JAPAN: Sex Work, Illegal Status Add to Risks for Trafficked Women
Patricia, a 23-year-old Colombian woman, wept as she recalled the agony and degradation she suffered at the hands of Japanese male bosses and agents who had lured her into the country to work as a bar hostess./ARTS WEEKLY/JAPAN: Museums Battle Recession, Pop Culture
It is not just bankers and chief executive officers who are worried by Japan's long recession. Artists, curators, art critics and academics are alarmed too - the government's desperate efforts to boost the economy have pushed culture and the arts way down the agenda, they say, and it is hurting.LABOUR-JAPAN: Lower Bonuses Signal Harder Times
Minoru Ueda, 37, says he is having a "very low key" yuletide season, thanks to his record-low bonus this winter. But the salaried worker, who has survived a severe downsizing scheme in his electrical company, is not complaining.LABOUR-JAPAN: Lower Bonuses Signal Harder Times
Minoru Ueda, 37, says he is having a "very low key" yuletide season, thanks to his record-low bonus this winter. But the salaried worker, who has survived a severe downsizing scheme in his electrical company, is not complaining.JAPAN: Peace Diplomacy Reflects Effort to Push Global Profile
Dogged by a sluggish economy, and a series of political and corporate scandals, Japan is turning its cultivating peace diplomacy in Asian conflict situations in order to revive its global profile.JAPAN: Peace Diplomacy Reflects Effort to Push Global Profile
Dogged by a sluggish economy, and a series of political and corporate scandals, Japan is turning its cultivating peace diplomacy in Asian conflict situations in order to revive its global profile.ECONOMY-JAPAN: Alternative Currency Brings Communities Together
When Takayuki Miyamoto needed help to do roof repairs in his hometown in northern Japan, he paid for the services using currency - but of an alternative kind, called 'kurin'.ECONOMY-JAPAN: Alternative Currency Brings Communities Together
When Takayuki Miyamoto needed help to do roof repairs in his hometown in northern Japan, he paid for the services using currency -- but of an alternative kind, called 'kurin'.JAPAN: Child Rearing Pressures Fall Squarely On Women’s Shoulders
Kaoru Nishizono, 35, is a busy mother. She enrolled her 2-year-old at an English-language school last month and spends most of her waking hours driving her other daughter to cram school, swimming, ballet, and drawing classes during the week.JAPAN: Child Rearing Pressures Fall Squarely On Women’s Shoulders
Kaoru Nishizono, 35, is a busy mother. She enrolled her 2-year-old at an English-language school last month and spends most of her waking hours driving her other daughter to cram school, swimming, ballet, and drawing classes during the week.RIGHTS-JAPAN: Deaths in Custody Highlight Abuses in Prisons
The deaths of two inmates and revelations of torture of prisoners have again brought to the fore the inhumane conditions and poor human rights record in Japanese prisons, concerns repeatedly raised by rights watchdogs and ignored by authorities.RIGHTS-JAPAN: Deaths in Custody Highlight Abuses in Prisons
The deaths of two inmates and revelations of torture of prisoners have again brought to the fore the inhumane conditions and poor human rights record in Japanese prisons, concerns repeatedly raised by rights watchdogs and ignored by authorities.JAPAN: Youngsters Challenge Taboo around Fathers’ Suicide
When Chiako Matsumura's father killed himself, her family instructed her not to tell anyone the truth about his death.JAPAN: Youngsters Challenge Taboo around Fathers’ Suicide
When Chiako Matsumura's father killed himself, her family instructed her not to tell anyone the truth about his death.ECONOMY-JAPAN: Bankrupt Firms Learn from Yesterday’s Mistakes
After the collapse two years ago of the company he was working for, Kazuharu Takeda, 55, faced what he describes as an ''empty future'' and risked being one more addition to Japan's rising number of jobless people.ECONOMY-JAPAN: Bankrupt Firms Learn from Yesterday’s Mistakes
After the collapse two years ago of the company he was working for, Kazuharu Takeda, 55, faced what he describes as an "empty future" and risked being one more addition to Japan's rising number of jobless people.POPULATION: Japanese-Brazilians Not Happy in their Second Home
Though they are more privileged than other people who have come to Japan for work, immigrants from Latin America feel lonely and alienated and are struggling to fit into a society with whom they have a cultural affinity.POPULATION: Japanese-Brazilians Not Happy in their Second Home
Though they are more privileged than other people who have come to Japan for work, immigrants from Latin America feel lonely and alienated and are struggling to fit into a society with whom they have a cultural affinity.POPULATION-JAPAN: Small is Beautiful in Elderly Care
Japan's lucrative market for caring for seniors is seeing fast-growing demand for 'group homes', family-size nursing homes that many find more attuned to local traditions of looking after their elderly kin.POPULATION-JAPAN: Small is Beautiful in Elderly Care
Japan's lucrative market for caring for seniors is seeing fast-growing demand for 'group homes', family-size nursing homes that many find more attuned to local traditions of looking after their elderly kin.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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