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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2021
New York City’s segregated classrooms hurt all students
Any changes to gifted programs will have to be accompanied by curriculums that both appeal to middle-class families and benefit all children; otherwise segregation might only get worse.
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Oct 14, 2021
Derek Carr still coming to terms with Jon Gruden's resignation
No player on the Raiders' roster spent more time with Gruden than Carr.
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Oct 13, 2021
Jon Gruden unlikely to coach in NFL again, experts say
Gruden resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after it was reported that he used misogynistic and homophobic language in numerous emails over a seven-year period.
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Oct 12, 2021
Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigns after penning homophobic and misogynistic emails
NFL officials found Gruden had casually and frequently unleashed toxic language for over seven years, denigrating people around the game and mocking momentous changes for the league.
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Oct 9, 2021
Las Vegas Raiders coach made racist comment about NFL players’ union chief
The email surfaced just hours before the player representatives for the 32 teams voted to give Smith a fifth term as the union's leader.
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WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2021
London's financial district, steeped in slavery, confronts its past
Lloyd's and the Bank of England have each hired a historian to delve into their roles in the slave trade and are planning on publicizing the results in the next year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 30, 2021
Bilal Kawazoe’s film ‘Whole’ tackles the experience of being mixed race in Japan
Bilal Kawazoe set out to make a film with a nuanced portrayal of biracial individuals and their struggle to understand their place within Japanese society.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 23, 2021
Melvin Van Peebles, champion of new Black cinema, dies at 89
A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.
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BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2021
France investigates Uniqlo unit and other retailers over alleged Xinjiang abuses
Fast Retailing lost an appeal with U.S. customs in May after a shipment of Uniqlo men's shirts were impounded over suspected violations of a ban on Xinjiang cotton.
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WORLD
Jul 2, 2021
Canada Day muted as country reckons with treatment of indigenous people
The discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools has sparked a reckoning with the country's colonial past.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2021
Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22½ years in murder of George Floyd
The verdict was widely seen as a landmark rebuke of the disproportionate use of police force against Black Americans.
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WORLD
Jun 18, 2021
Biden signs 'Juneteenth' bill and asks U.S. to reflect on slavery's 'terrible toll'
The bill marks the day in 1865 when a Union general informed a group of enslaved people in Texas that they had been made free two years earlier.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 16, 2021
Proposed changes to South Korea citizenship law face anti-China headwinds
The controversy highlights the challenges South Korea faces as it seeks to ensure a robust population in the face of declining birthrates and rapidly aging workers.
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BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 7, 2021
AI is taking over job hiring, but racism concerns persist
The risk of discrimination is a central issue for lawmakers around the world as they weigh how to regulate the use of AI technology, particularly in the labor market.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 7, 2021
SoftBank fund invests $50 million in Black and Hispanic-led startups
The firm created its Opportunity Fund barely a week after the murder of George Floyd last year.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 29, 2021
'Curry Police': A problematic music video leads to a problematic backlash
A Japanese music video filled with stereotypes about Indians leads to an angry response that exposes some nasty misogyny.
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WORLD / Society
May 26, 2021
Can this U.S. city heal racial wounds by busting up its freeway?
New York State wants to replace an elevated stretch of freeway with a street-level boulevard to knit the city's urban grid back together.
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WORLD
May 26, 2021
George Floyd's family lobbies Biden for U.S. police reform on anniversary of death
Tuesday's private Oval Office visit marked the first time any of Floyd's family had been hosted at the White House.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 22, 2021
Calling out the elephant in the blogosphere
Two Japanese blogs have made headlines recently for racist remarks against ethnic Koreans, while online discussion starts to ask what Japanese people should do in response.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Saitama court bans demonstrations over anti-Kurd hate speech
Kurdish people in Japan in 2015. A court injunction has banned acts that defame the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association and are disrespectful, such as putting up banner flags or handing out fliers with hate speech like “Refugees should go back to their home countries.”
China reinstates visa-free travel for Japanese nationals
Beijing Daxing International Airport
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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