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DISCRIMINATION

WORLD / Society
Dec 9, 2015
Pig's head thrown at Philadelphia mosque; mayor decries bigotry
U.S authorities are investigating an incident in which a pig's head was thrown at a mosque in Philadelphia early on Monday morning, as worries grow over a rise in Islamophobia after a Muslim couple killed 14 people at a holiday party in California.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2015
Khan brothers sharpen India's intolerance debate
Intolerance threatens to blow India apart from the seams, and the established political parties are doing little to calm the waters.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 30, 2015
City assembly member in hot water over discriminatory tweets about same-sex marriage
Municipal assembly leaders in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, issue a warning to a 71-year-old assemblyman over discriminatory remarks about gay marriage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 30, 2015
Japan's tiny refugee community urges Tokyo to open doors wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Nov 22, 2015
Bring back that Kobe feeling, 'cause it's gone, gone, gone
From the moment I stepped off the shinkansen at Shin-Kobe Station, I could feel a subtle difference between the Yokohama-Tokyo area and this city.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 21, 2015
Roanoke mayor apologizes for Japanese internment remarks
The embattled mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, apologized Friday for comments earlier in the week citing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II in a statement defending his push to keep Syrian refugees out of the area.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2015
Transgender bureaucrat sues METI over sex discrimination
A transgender trade bureaucrat on Friday launched a landmark ¥18 million discrimination lawsuit against the government, claiming the trade ministry refused to let her use the female toilets and harassed her about her sex change.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 10, 2015
U.N. rights review faults Australian asylum policies and discrimination
Australia was criticized on Monday at the United Nations for its offshore processing of asylum claims, detention of child migrants and reports it had sent back legitimate refugees.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 4, 2015
Spurred by Myanmar radicals, Thai Buddhists push for state religion status
A campaign to enshrine Buddhism as Thailand's state religion has been galvanized by a radical Buddhist movement in neighboring Myanmar that is accused of stoking religious tension, the leader of the Thai bid said.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Nov 1, 2015
Tackle embedded racism before it chokes Japan
Japan has a dire problem it must address immediately: its embedded racism.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 28, 2015
Imagining a Japan that thinks beyond blood and binary distinctions
Could the Brave Blossoms serve as a model for a multicultural Japan of the future?
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2015
Open sectarianism in Saudi Arabia frightens Shiite adherents
When the gunshots rang out, Ali, a 26-year-old Saudi Arabian Shiite Muslim, thought they were fireworks. But when he saw people running, he knew militant Sunnis were attacking his minority community again.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 23, 2015
Shibuya Ward to accept applications for certificates to recognize same-sex partnerships
Ken Hasebe, mayor of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, announced Friday that the ward will start accepting applications Wednesday to issue certificates of recognition for same-sex partnerships, a landmark step for the city to protect the rights of sexual minorities.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 21, 2015
Three cases of whine offer lessons in how not to criticize Japan
Novelist John Updike famously declared America to be "a conspiracy to make you happy." I wonder sometimes if Japan is, then, a conspiracy to make you unhappy? Or, if not exactly unhappy, how about uncomfortable, exasperated or confused?
WORLD / Society
Oct 21, 2015
U.N. report shows women inching slowly, unevenly toward equality
Women are more educated, marrying later and living longer worldwide but millions remain illiterate and trapped by work that pays little or nothing, according to a United Nations report on Tuesday assessing progress over the past two decades.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 3, 2015
Women of Japan unite: Examining the contemporary state of feminism
On Oct. 21, 1970, hundreds of women marched through the streets of Tokyo, an occasion that is often referred to as the birth of the women's liberation movement in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 1, 2015
Neither here nor there: Stretched between Nigeria and Japan, family ties fray
This is the last of a two-part series on Japanese-Nigerian families torn between Asia and Africa. The first part can be found here.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 23, 2015
Neither here nor there: the families torn between Nigeria and Japan
Caught between instability in Nigeria and isolation in Japan, African immigrants fear the loss of their children's love.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2015
U.S. presidential race stokes fears of new wave of Islamophobia
Muslim Americans responded with a mix of frustration, exasperation and anger to what many see as a growing wave of Islamophobia fueled by two of the Republican Party's most popular presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2015
Is it Australian Border Security Force or farce?
An operation by the Australian Border Force to check visas on the streets of Melbourne is met with scorn by a public with no interest in accepting 'fascist nonsense.'
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Americans with four-year degrees now comprise a record 25% of unemployed workers
A job fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. The unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders in the U.S. rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier.
War refugee Aonishiki becomes first Ukrainian to win sumo tournament
Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki receives the Prime Minister's Cup from Takahiro Inoue, an adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on Sunday in Fukuoka after becoming the first from his nation to win a tournament in the traditional Japanese sport.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Top Chinese diplomat weighs in on Takaichi’s ‘shocking’ Taiwan remarks
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing on Oct. 27.
TV icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's memoir paints a life of both war and glamour
“Totto” in “Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel” was the nickname young Tetsuko Kuroyanagi gave herself as a child, mispronouncing her first name.
The secret to 'Last Samurai Standing'? Treating live action like anime.
“Last Samurai Standing” centers on a mysterious fighting event in which participants must hack and slash their opponents apart to collect enough wooden tags to win a big-money prize.
‘Tampopo’ lives on in bowls of ramen around the world
Juzo Itami's 1985 movie "Tampopo" has inspired many restaurateurs around the world to open their own ramen shop with the same name, such as this establishment in Auckland, New Zealand.
All systems Go for upstart Machida Zelvia after landmark Emperor’s Cup triumph
Machida manager Go Kuroda lifts the trophy as the club celebrates its victory over Vissel Kobe in the Emperor’s Cup final at National Stadium on Saturday.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.

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