National Feb 15, 2019
The Cabinet approves a bill to recognize Japan’s ethnic Ainu minority as an indigenous people for the first time, after decades of discrimination and assimilation.
Business Jan 17, 2019
Admitting that female employees earn 29% less than men, Citigroup vows more diversity for top roles
Citigroup's female employees earn 29 percent less than their male counterparts, the Wall Street bank revealed on Wednesday, while announcing targets for appointing more women and minorities to senior roles. The median pay for Citi's women employees globally was just 71 percent of the median ...
World / Crime & Legal Nov 28, 2018
Top Democratic lawmaker to probe hate crimes and surveillance of minorities after GOP ranks balked
The presumed incoming Democratic Chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday he plans to investigate the drastic spike in hate crimes and whether federal investigators have wrongfully targeted racial and ethnic minorities instead of focusing on white supremacist groups. In a letter ...
World / Politics Nov 6, 2018
Breaking barriers: U.S. midterm election winners could mark minority firsts
The 2018 U.S. congressional elections prompted a surge of candidates from minority groups that have not had electoral success in the past. Several have the potential to be the first of their background elected to office on Tuesday. Here are details on some of the ...
World / Politics Oct 19, 2018
Thousands of voters in Tennessee were at risk of being blocked from casting regular ballots when early voting opened this week, as officials struggled to process a surge of new registrations ahead of Nov. 6 elections to determine control of the U.S. Congress. The delay ...
National Feb 22, 2017
The London-based Amnesty International has highlighted concerns over the treatment of religious and ethnic minorities living in Japan as well as the fate of refugees.
World / Politics Jan 26, 2017
Trump voter fraud probe called pretext for curbing minority access to polls
President Donald Trump's plans to investigate the possibility of voter fraud in the 2016 election could pave the way for tough voting rules including stringent ID requirements that Democrats and rights groups say would amount to a new assault on voting rights. Trump's frequent and ...
National / Social Issues May 17, 2016
Foreign LGBT people feel comfortable in Japan, although problems include lack of spouse visa
by Supriya Singh
Non-Japanese members of the nation's LGBT community tend to feel less discrimination in expressing themselves freely than their Japanese counterparts, although many complain of a lack of support, problems dating, and difficulties in obtaining a spouse visa. Whereas Human Rights Watch recently highlighted the problem ...
World / Politics Feb 13, 2016
Clinton, Sanders fight for minority voters; Trump's rivals seek to win over evangelicals
Democratic presidential hopefuls fighting for black voters looked for an edge in South Carolina on Friday as Republicans crisscrossed the state in search of a path out of Donald Trump's long shadow. Democrat Hillary Clinton stepped up her hammering of rival Bernie Sanders for what ...
World / Crime & Legal Dec 10, 2015
U.S. justices clash over university affirmative action policies; Kennedy says ruling may elude
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the value of university affirmative action policies, and pivotal Justice Anthony Kennedy raised the prospect that the court might put off issuing a broad ruling. In a sometimes-heated argument Wednesday that ran more than 30 minutes beyond ...
World / Politics Nov 19, 2015
Republicans split as Syrian refugee snub threatens pre-election appeals to minority voters
Some Republicans are pushing back against aggressive opposition in their party to Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S., in fresh evidence of a rift that threatens to complicate the party's outreach to minorities heading into the 2016 presidential contest. These Republicans have joined Democrats who ...
Asia Pacific / Politics Nov 16, 2015
Suu Kyi landslide dashes minorities' hopes for role in government
A landslide victory by Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's historic election has raised questions over whether the Nobel laureate can overcome distrust from leaders of ethnic minorities and solve long-simmering conflicts along Myanmar's borders. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) scored a huge ...