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WOMEN IN JAPAN 2

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 26, 2016
Japan scores tragic own goal
The Abe government's position on 'comfort women' is damaging Japan's international reputation and playing into China's hands.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 2, 2016
'15 saw Abe keep nationalism in check, reset Seoul, Beijing ties
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's diplomatic gains last year may give him momentum for the crucial Upper House election and his life-long ambition of revising the Constitution.
JAPAN / History
Mar 18, 2015
Japanese historians seek revision of U.S. textbook over 'comfort women' depiction
A group of 19 Japanese historians and scholars plan to file a protest with U.S. publisher McGraw-Hill, claiming a history textbook it published in 2011 contains a number of "factual errors" on the "comfort women" issue.
EDITORIALS
Aug 23, 2014
Women tend to manage schools
The upward trend for women in school managerial positions is welcome, but their total number continues to be disappointingly low.
EDITORIALS
Jul 19, 2014
Ingrained ideas on gender roles
A recent poll of men and women 20 to 40 years old by a Japanese research institute finds that a surprising 40 percent of the respondents believe husbands should work full time while wives stay at home — despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to increase the number of women in the workplace.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 11, 2014
China seeks UNESCO listing for Nanking Massacre, sex slave archives; Japan protests
The government has filed a protest against China's applications to have what it says are historical documents on the 1937 Nanking Massacre and Japan's wartime "comfort women" brothel system registered in the U.N. archive program, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 27, 2014
China releases trove of Japanese sex slave records
China has released previously confidential Japanese wartime documents, including some about "comfort women" forced to serve in military brothels during World War II, state media reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2014
'Comfort women' statues spur debate
In the northern Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, population 192,000, sits a public park with a simple statue that has become a lightning rod in the brewing political storm among the United States, Japan and South Korea over the past few months.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 10, 2013
Three versions of the 'good wife' in Japan
Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was unusual for a Japanese woman to aspire to be anything other than a "good wife and wise mother"— an aspiration so predominant that the Japanese for it, ryosai kenbo, is a set phrase in the language.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 22, 2013
Sisters are DIYing it for themselves
When you have a pink hammer, everything looks like a nail.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 20, 2012
It all stacks up: tumbler bento
The tumbler bento turns the lunch box into a lunch cup.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 15, 2012
Beauty treatments get busy with the fizzy
Tiny bubbles in face cream are making a splash in summer beauty products.
Ishiba gets down to the business of forming new administration
Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a news conference after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan and U.S. partners hold dueling military drills with China in South China Sea
The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami leaves Sasebo Naval Base in Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture, in April 2012.
Ishiba's foreign policy vision to face immediate tests as he takes helm
Shigeru Ishiba, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a news conference after winning the party's leadership election in Tokyo on Friday.
Ishiba calls for loose monetary policy amid fragile economic recovery
Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP leadership election, on Friday.
Japan's legions of panda-lovers bid farewell to beloved pair in Tokyo
Visitors take photos of Shin Shin at Ueno zoo in Tokyo on Saturday. Saturday was the last chance for Japan's panda-lovers to see Shin Shin and Ri Ri before their return to China.
What’s a mother to do when your non-Japanese child is bullied in school?
Helping your child through their first experience with a school bully can be a difficult situation to navigate — doubly so if you're trying to do so as a non-Japanese resident in Japan.
Ishiba's foreign policy vision to face immediate tests as he takes helm
Shigeru Ishiba, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a news conference after winning the party's leadership election in Tokyo on Friday.
Researchers in Japan look to art to mold the scientific process
The “Fragment Shadow” exhibition by Shunichi Kasahara and Satoru Higa, in which people’s shadows were digitally re-created and manipulated.
NHK furthers global reach with Tiny Desk Concerts Japan
Musician Koshi Inaba is the latest artist to be featured on national broadcaster NHK’s Tiny Desk Concerts Japan. Based on a series from America’s National Public Radio, Japan’s version has spotlighted acts that you likely wouldn’t see stateside, like veteran rockers Kirinji and upstart pop artist yama.
A first look inside the new Nintendo Museum
The Nintendo Museum opens to the public on Oct. 2, but unlike the company's all-ages games, the new attraction may be geared more toward older rather than younger gamers.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Wozme, founded by dancer and choreographer Wakaba Kohei, is composed of Kana Kitty, Ami Ishii, Akane Watanabe and Natsuki. Its aim is to inject elegance and beauty, traits traditionally associated with femininity, into the sometimes grotesque art form of butoh dance.
Wozme, an all-women dance troupe, wants to move the needle in butoh
By Zoria Petkoska

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