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WOMEN

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JAPAN / Media / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2014
Asahi Shimbun struggles with credibility amid retractions
Self-inflicted wounds to the 135-year-old liberal media flagship may create a tailwind for conservatives who want to recast Japan's wartime past in a less apologetic tone.
COMMENTARY / World / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 13, 2014
Empowering Asian women through education
Asia University for Women, launched in 2008, is an audacious project in Chittagong, Bangladesh, that is aiming to develop the region's future leaders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2014
Women's work culture under fire
One morning in February, the government personnel department began an experiment in a nondescript building in a Tokyo residential area that could end up rewriting the rules of the nation's powerful bureaucracy.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2014
Cost of domestic violence far outstrips war at $8 trillion a year: study
Domestic violence, mainly against women and children, kills far more people than wars and is an often overlooked scourge that costs the world economy more than $8 trillion a year, experts said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 8, 2014
Mind the 'geb': Little word is a big problem for Japan's German residents
Inflexible residence card system leaves married Germans with ridiculously long names on their IDs — along with an annoying little extra word.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 30, 2014
Asahi rivals pile on over sex slaves retraction
It has been almost a month since the Asahi Shimbun printed a long, two-part retraction of its reporting in the 1980s and '90s on the "forced mobilization" of so-called comfort women during World War II based on the published confessions of a man named Seiji Yoshida.
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BASKETBALL
Aug 30, 2014
Oga recognizes value of physical play
Star guard Yuko Oga insists the Japan's women's national team will show off a new style in Turkey at the FIBA World Championship for Women, which tips off late next month.
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.

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