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 ...
World War II had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the Korean community in Japan.
More than 100 mourners gathered Tuesday in honor of the victims of an uprising at a labor camp in northern Japan during World War II. Those present included 87-year-old Chinese survivor Zhang Guangxun and relatives of some of the more than 400 forced laborers ...
Hundreds of people protested outside the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco, calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for his country’s treatment of people from other parts of Asia during World War II. Tuesday’s protest comes days before the prime minister is scheduled ...
Notorious hate-speech demonstrations outside a Kyoto school run by pro-Pyongyang Koreans have prompted a group of lawyers and others to set about trying to ease the distrust the pupils may feel toward Japanese society. They are distributing illustrated booklets that explain in pictures and ...
On Feb. 24, 2013, Osaka’s Tsuruhashi district, home to one of Japan’s largest concentrations of ethnic Koreans and in recent years a major tourist destination, was the scene of a shocking incident. The anti-Korean group Zaitokukai had organized a demonstration in the area, shouting ...
