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Action Center for Working Women opening shortly in Tokyo!

An organization called Action Center for Working Women (ACW2) would be opening on 20th of next month, aim of which would be to look into the matters pertaining to women welfare including sexual harassment, unfair wages, long overtime and sudden dismissal, and recommend modes for the government to improve conditions. The group constitutes hundred women [...]

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Historian documents Japan’s role in sex slavery

Japanese government’s claim that their military were not hand in glove with the running of brothels throughout Asia during World War II has been rebuffed by a historian. Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a history professor at Chuo University in Tokyo, cross checked the official documents from the 1930s in the Defense Agency’s library. And he discovered some [...]

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