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Commentary / Japan Aug 20, 2018

Are the Uighurs one of China's 56 nations?

by Kuni Miyake

China's leadership must treat the Uighur minority with all the respect and fairness afforded other groups.

National / Politics Aug 11, 2018

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to again avoid eulogizing Koreans killed in 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike says no words are needed for the Korean minorities murdered following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake because she will attend related ceremonies.

Entertainment News Aug 11, 2018

'Asian August' comes to Hollywood, but will it last?

by Jill Serjeant

Phil Yu is excited. The Los Angeles-based blogger saw an advance screening months ago of "Crazy Rich Asians," and now the first Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast in 25 years is about to arrive in theaters, along with two other predominantly Asian films. "I've ...

Asia Pacific Aug 11, 2018

U.N. says it has credible reports China is holding 1 million Uighurs in secret camps

A United Nations human rights panel said Friday it has received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are being held in what resembles a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy." Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on ...

Asia Pacific Aug 11, 2018

Politics of citizenship flares anew in northeast India's Assam state

Tens of thousands of people left off a draft list of Indian citizens have begun picking up forms to file appeals across the northeastern state of Assam, wading into a Byzantine legal and bureaucratic process that many fear could lead to detention, expulsion or ...

Asia Pacific Aug 10, 2018

Myanmar says Hague court has no jurisdiction over Rohingya crisis

Myanmar sharply rejected an attempt by the International Criminal Court to consider the country's culpability for activities that caused 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh for safety last year. The office of the nation's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said in a statement ...

Voices | FOREIGN AGENDA Aug 8, 2018

The incoherent, divisive dogma of cultural appropriation outrage

by Shaun O'dwyer

Clueless online crusaders risk doing real harm to the very cultures they claim to represent

World / Crime & Legal Jul 30, 2018

Bodycam video released in fatal June police shooting of black man in Minneapolis

Authorities in Minneapolis released body camera video from two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old black man, with the footage showing the man shot from behind after a frenetic foot chase and what appeared to be a gun in his ...

World Jul 30, 2018

India puts citizenship of 4 million people in Assam at risk with new register

India on Monday effectively stripped 4 million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the northeastern state. The draft National Register of Citizens, published on Monday, includes only those able to prove they were in Assam before 1971, when ...

Asia Pacific Jul 29, 2018

Muslim survivors of Indian massacre shaken by citizenship test

Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a 4-year-old daughter in one of India's worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban is still trying to prove he is a citizen of the Hindu-majority nation. Suban is one of hundreds of thousands of Bengali-speaking Muslims categorized as ...

National / Social Issues Jul 23, 2018

A tale of those swayed by a Japanese anti-Korean fake news blog

Last year, bar associations nationwide were suddenly flooded with about 130,000 letters seeking to punish lawyers who have expressed support for the subsidization of Korean schools affiliated with North Korea. The move appears to have been triggered by the blog Yomei Sannen Jiji Nikki, which ...