The Asahi Shimbun and the Cabinet Office tell a different story about the removal of a link from a government website to a report detailing the massacre.
Activists who took part in an anti-apartheid movement years ago in Japan, while voicing support for those oppressed in South Africa, are featured in newly released university archives. Newsletters, photographs and other records compiled between 1963 and 2015, available at Tokyo’s Rikkyo University, show ...
“I got lost all the time,” says writer Min Jin Lee with a charming laugh, sitting in a hotel lobby in San Francisco’s Japantown. Before a promotional appearance at a bookstore, she spoke to The Japan Times about writing her new novel “Pachinko,” a ...
Min Jin Lee’s second novel, “Pachinko,” charts the fortunes and misfortunes of four generations of a Korean family. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.490 pages GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, Fiction. Beginning in Yeongdo in 1910 with the marriage of Hoonie and Yangjin against the backdrop of ...
An Osaka kindergarten principal suspected of fomenting hate speech is questioned after distributing documents to students’ parents filled with disparaging comments about Korean residents and Chinese.
Ethnic Korean residents applaud as Japan’s first ordinance against so-called hate speech takes effect in the city of Osaka.
The ruling and opposition camps should combine their respective bills and get to work on targeting hate speech.
The Justice Ministry finds a “significant” number of xenophobic rallies held by nationalist groups still occur regularly.
Japan should enact a law banning hate speech to protect the nation’s ethnic minorities, according to a United Nations expert who said such a change would not impact freedom of speech. “The international law makes it quite clear that in certain circumstances (hate speech) ...
The city of Osaka passed the nation’s first ordinance by a major city against hate speech late Friday. The text is a watered-down version of a proposal that the assembly made last year and will serve merely to name and shame perpetrators. It does ...
Civic groups in South Korea plan to build a park in Seoul by next Aug. 15 to commemorate the “comfort women” — females forced to serve as prostitutes for wartime Imperial Japanese forces, sources said Wednesday. The groups, which are calling for settlement of ...
Food shortages, fears of air raids and discrimination were part of daily life for a Korean woman and her family in Kobe during World War II. Pyo Hae Sun came to Japan to work when she was 14 years old, as there were far ...
