Tag - women

 
 

WOMEN

JAPAN
Jun 26, 2015
Government releases first female empowerment guidelines
Japan releases its first guidelines on female empowerment so women can play a more active role in a society that customarily treats them less than equal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 24, 2015
Women in Okinawa have Japan's best recipe for liberty, fertility and longevity
Women in Okinawa have more babies and live longer than women from almost anywhere else in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jun 23, 2015
Time to move bilateral ties forward
Japan and South Korea need to tackle their differences in earnest and move bilateral ties forward.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Jun 21, 2015
Governance guru pushes Japan Inc. to open up and diversify
Former trailblazing dean Christina Ahmadjian finds her balance between the classroom and boardroom.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Jun 21, 2015
Time running out for South Korean 'comfort women' as average age approaches 90
Year after year, their numbers dwindle. Now, with the average age of former "comfort women" in South Korea approaching 90, time is running out.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 19, 2015
Gender equality goal for 2020 elusive: white paper
The government's goal of having women in 30 percent of all leadership positions in Japan by 2020 is looking unrealistic, the 2015 gender equality white paper says.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 19, 2015
Some of the world's cities take baby steps to protect women
Going out for dinner and not sure which area would be safer at night for a woman traveling on her own? Want to track your daughter to ensure she gets back from college safely?
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 19, 2015
Half of Indian kids are malnourished; girls suffer most
When Palak was found barely breathing buried under a mound of soil in an impoverished village in eastern India, doctors who treated the abandoned newborn girl knew that nursing her back to health would not be easy.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 18, 2015
Abe's WWII remarks likely to reflect view that 'comfort women' rights were violated
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II will likely reflect his view that the human rights of "comfort women" were violated, according to the policy chief of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jun 17, 2015
Indians in Japan — a love story beset with challenges
While the recent increase in the number of Indian residents in Japan might appear substantial, it is small compared to the influx seen in some other countries. So why the big difference?
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2015
NHK filter gives viewers 'legal' way to avoid Japan's TV tax
An engineering professor at Tsukuba University says his device for TVs that filters out NHK's signal provides a legal basis for not paying subscription fees to to the public broadcaster.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 14, 2015
Guards Yoshida, Machida aiming high with national team
Looking to retain its title at August's FIBA Asia Championship for Women, the latest Japan national basketball team plans to play with more vigor and speed, partly to make up for its lack of height on the international stage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 9, 2015
Murayama, Kono assail revisionism, urge Abe to uphold their apologies in entirety
Two former leaders who issued historic apologies for the nation's past lambast revisionist attempts to rewrite history, urging Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to stand by the statements they delivered when they were in office.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 7, 2015
Peruvian women seek state apology over forced sterilization under Fujimori
In the 1990s, government health workers went from door to door to coax, cajole and bully women in a farming community in Peru's highlands to come with them for free medical treatment.

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