A rundown of the top 10 human rights issues of the past year as they affected non-Japanese residents.

The past year has seen a number of tugs-of-war, as conservatives promoted past glories and preservation of the status quo while liberals lobbied for unprecedented levels of tolerance.

Japan has a dire problem it must address immediately: its embedded racism. The country’s society and government are permeated by a narrative that says people must “look Japanese” before they can expect equal treatment in society. That must stop. It’s a matter of Japan’s ...

With the security bills now law, the next step is to put soldiers on the conveyor belt and feed them to the sacrificial altar of Yasukuni.

The left keeps losing, and much of it is its own damned fault.

If Japan cannot get over the conceit of having to "look Japanese" to be treated as one, then it cannot make "new Japanese," and the country will continue to sink into an insolvent economic abyss.

Something significant happened in April that attracted only desultory press coverage, so let’s give it some more. GPlus Media Co., which operates English-language websites Japan Today and GaijinPot, was sold to Fuji TV-Lab, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. The Fuji Media group ...

Washington seems eager to start Cold War II, except this time it does not have an American at the steering wheel in Tokyo, and the blood-nationalist in charge is instead bent on settling old scores and putting Japanese weapons and military forces overseas.

JBC sits down for an interview with Dr. M.G. Sheftall of Shizuoka University about the kamikaze phenomenon and what makes this exhibition unique.

Ever noticed how Japan — and in particular, its ruling elite — keeps getting away with astonishing bigotry? Recently Ayako Sono, a former adviser of the current Shinzo Abe government, sang the praises of a segregated South Africa, effectively advocating a system where people ...