The office of San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday it is "unfortunate" that Osaka has decided to terminate their sister-city relationship over a statue symbolizing Asian "comfort women," a euphemism for the girls and women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before ...
Tokyo lawyers to sue nationalists who allegedly targeted them for their stance on Korean schools
Two Tokyo lawyers said Thursday they plan to sue hundreds of internet rightists, who the lawyers say campaigned to have them reprimanded over their apparent support for free education at ethnic Korean schools in Japan. Ryo Sasaki and Kanehito Kita said they will file a ...
North Koreans in Japan feel pride for their 'motherland' as they endure discrimination
The children, gathered in rows on a school field in Tokyo, crouch and then reach up in unison, waving red, white and blue banners to form a North Korean flag as the school band plays an emotional rendition of a song for their "motherland." They ...
Asahi and government at odds over removed link to report on 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan
The Asahi Shimbun and the Cabinet Office tell a different story about the removal of a link from a government website to a report detailing the massacre.
Newly released archives stir memories of Japan's anti-apartheid campaign
Activists who took part in an anti-apartheid movement years ago in Japan, while voicing support for those oppressed in South Africa, are featured in newly released university archives. Newsletters, photographs and other records compiled between 1963 and 2015, available at Tokyo's Rikkyo University, show how ...
'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee on how Japan's ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds
"I got lost all the time," says writer Min Jin Lee with a charming laugh, sitting in a hotel lobby in San Francisco's Japantown. Before a promotional appearance at a bookstore, she spoke to The Japan Times about writing her new novel "Pachinko," a historical ...
'Pachinko': Min Jin Lee writes the struggle of an ethnic Korean family in Japan
Min Jin Lee's second novel, "Pachinko," charts the fortunes and misfortunes of four generations of a Korean family. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.490 pages GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, Fiction. Beginning in Yeongdo in 1910 with the marriage of Hoonie and Yangjin against the backdrop of Japanese annexation of ...
Nationalist Osaka preschool draws heat for distributing slurs against Koreans and Chinese
An Osaka kindergarten principal suspected of fomenting hate speech is questioned after distributing documents to students’ parents filled with disparaging comments about Korean residents and Chinese.
Osaka enforces Japan's first ordinance against hate speech, threatens to name names
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.
Japan's first-ever hate speech probe finds rallies are fewer but still a problem
The Justice Ministry finds a “significant” number of xenophobic rallies held by nationalist groups still occur regularly.
U.N. rapporteur urges Japan to consider law banning hate speech
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) must ...
