SNA (Tokyo) — A Japanese court overturned a welfare reduction for the first time ever on […]
SNA (Tokyo) — May Day came into this world on May 1, 1886, with a general […]
SNA (Tokyo) — Last Friday, the Covid-19 global pandemic passed the horrifying milestone of one million […]
SNA (Tokyo) — When did poverty become normal? Conventional wisdom had it that poverty didn’t exist […]
中曽根康弘元首相が2019年11月29日、101歳で亡くなった。1971年生まれの筆者にとって、中曽根氏は良くも悪くも鮮明に記憶に残る総理大臣の一人である。日本の戦後の総理大臣は概して「調整役」的存在に徹し、カリスマ性が求められてこなかったなか、中曽根氏はもしかしたら、初めてカリスマを志向した総理大臣だったかもしれない。“ロン・ヤス関係”と呼ばれた、アメリカのレーガン元大統領との“日米蜜月関係”の構築は、日本の「対米従属化」をいっそう加速させたといえるかもしれない。だが、当時中学生~高校生の子どもだった筆者の目には、初めて日本の首相が、アメリカと“対等に”そして“フレンドリーに”交渉する姿を見た気がした。それは単純に、彼の身長が178センチとこれまでの総理大臣の中では群を抜いて高く、アメリカ大統領と並んだときに引けをとらなかったという視覚的な印象もあるだろう。
SNA (Tokyo) — Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone died this past November 29. During his tenure as […]
Reinstated Shane Worker Cleeve
Just last month—on October 9, 2019—the Tokyo High Court threw out a lower court ruling and voided a 2017 firing from language school Shane Corporation. The appellant, Adam Cleeve, serves as executive president of Shane Workers Union (SWU), a local chapter of Tozen. He taught English at Shane English School until the employer fired him in February 2017. Read More
Lawmaker Mio Sugita of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party found herself embroiled in controversy when the […]
The number of foreign nationals working in Japan reached its highest-ever level in October 2017 at […]
The Japanese government wants to raise the number of fathers taking paternity leave from 2016’s 3 percent to 13 percent by 2020, but two recent court cases show how hard it can be for some fathers to take their legally mandated paternity leave — especially if difficult pregnancies complicate the situation before the child is born.

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