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JAPAN / Society
Nov 13, 2014

MOS Burger employee posts hateful message about Chinese former co-worker outside restaurant

Fast-food giant MOS Burger has come under fire after a Japanese employee wrote a hateful message about a former Chinese co-worker on a chalk-board sign outside one of the company's Tokyo restaurants.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 17, 2014

Lesson on sexist heckling: bridges involve 'good men'

The June 18 incident in which Tokyo assembly member Ayaka Shiomura endured sexist heckling underscores the need for women to take the initiative in working to banish such discriminatory attitudes from Japanese society.
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Aug 19, 2013

‘Halfies’ and hapa the norm elsewhere

Hapa haole celebrated in Hawaii
Reader Mail
Feb 8, 2009

Discrimination doesn't teach much

I tend to disagree with the assumptions made by Paul de Vries in recent articles (including his Feb. 3 Zeit Gist article, "What would the locals do?") that tell readers how non-Japanese people should learn from the Japanese idea of "group accountability." De Vries has tried to explain this idea with...
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2006

Man loses racial discrimination suit against shop

OSAKA -- In a case that human rights lawyers and activists worry could condone racial discrimination against foreigners by Japanese businesses, the Osaka District Court rejected a lawsuit Monday that was filed by a black American man who was denied entry to a store apparently due to his color.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2001

Steelmaker NKK comes to terms with correct words

Sometimes words hurt. But an NKK Corp. employee is trying to ensure that the language fellow workers use at the major steelmaker does not discriminate against people.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2000

Bitterness over lack of jobs rising: poll

Employment opportunities are becoming scarce in Japan, particularly for people in their 40s and 50s, according to an employment survey conducted over a six-month period this year in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 1997

Group advises on rent discrimination

A human rights group representing Korean residents will set up a three-day hotline next week to provide support and advice to foreigners facing discrimination in trying to find apartments.
JAPAN
Jan 3, 1997

Tokyo blames discrimination for lack of plans to hire foreigners

Despite the recent reversal of the Home Affairs Ministry's policy, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will not take immediate action to hire permanent foreign residents for general clerical positions, Gov. Yukio Aoshima has indicated.Aoshima said he has no plans to launch a study group to discuss the...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2019

Tradition and discrimination

Hiyori Kon, or Little Miss Sumo, is a new, powerful force behind a centuries-long debate about sumo and its men-only rule ("Little Miss Sumo wrestles with sexism in Japan's ancient sport" in the Nov. 5 edition).
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2014

Stop the bullying of LGBT students

A recent survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the Kanto area finds that 70 percent were bullied during their school years. Learning respect and tolerance for individual differences should start earlier.
JAPAN
May 23, 2014

School axes policy of barring foreigners

The chairman of three private cooking schools in Saitama scraps his discriminatory policy of barring foreign students and apologizes for being 'immature and stubborn.'
EDITORIALS
Apr 12, 2013

Students are not political pawns

A Japanese board of education had no business trying to making scapegoats of students at a pro-North Korea school because of Pyongyang's policies.
Japan Times
Features
Apr 11, 2004

Women in noh

Backstage at a noh theater in downtown Tokyo, the play was about to begin.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 2, 2003

Where are the Ainu now?

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture, is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
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