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Corporate life of Yukako Kurose withered away after she had a baby. In 1985, Japan passed a resolution which administered equal opportunities for both the genders, especially in work-front. Women like Kurose acknowledged it with open arms but (for...
Zhou Fenying was 22, when she and her sister-in-law were taken by force from their village in Eastern China, and transported to a military brothel by the Japanese soldiers during the 2nd World War.
She has witnessed the vile history of pain and...
If it were between countries, we'd call it a war. If it were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic. If it were an oil spill, we'd call it a disaster. But it's happening to women, and it's just an everyday affair.
Japan is one the most technological...
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...
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Japan, Japanese Government, Yoshiaki Yoshimi, Chuo University, Tokyo, Military, Brothels, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Dutch, Sex Slaves, Asia, World War II, Politics & Society
Once a sex slave by Japanese soldiers during the world war II, Lee Yong-soo requested Japan's government to ask for forgiveness in the midst of an escalating international row over the fate of the so-called 'comfort women', a Japanese euphemism for...
Discrimination at work place is a ubiquitous phenomenon, whether its corporate sector or government job, inequity against women would always exist. Even women correspondent is paid less than men under the flagship of BBC.
The same has happened with...
Some Japanese women lawmakers have requested the health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa to resign on Monday for calling women 'birth-giving machines' in an earlier speech.
Nearly sixteen lawyers put signatures across the protest letter tagging it as a...
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