LIFELINES

A new bilingual program aims to cross language and cultural barriers and help all women move ahead in their professional and personal lives — sharing with and learning from each other in the process.

Those in Japan wishing to join the movement can take their pick between the Scout Association of Japan and the Boy Scouts of America.

Amnesty International Japan introduced the Gender Human Rights Education Project, with an aim to provide a forum and tools for students to learn about and discuss gender, discrimination and human rights protection

Reader B wrote to Lifelines about his worries regarding his wife, a keen driver who is about to become an octogenarian.

SIETAR Japan seeks to promote intercultural communication through lectures and workshops, special interest group meetings, an annual conference, retreats and social gatherings.

A reader writes in with a query about the all-too-familiar subject of divorce, along with a related question about his mortgage.

A non-Japanese worker wrote to Lifelines with some questions about the shakai hoken social insurance system.

Another of our occasional "in search of" columns featuring people hoping for a blast from their pasts, along with an update on efforts to help children and parents in international abduction cases.

A number of changes to Japanese ID registration systems have been implemented in recent years, some of them for everyone in Japan and others pertinent only to foreign nationals. The ins and outs can be a bit confusing, particularly for those who have been ...