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WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 26, 2022
Ending Roe is institutional suicide for U.S. Supreme Court
Dobbs will go down as one of the worst decisions in the court¡¯s history after reversing rights on which the whole country has relied for half a century.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 26, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court conservatives assert power with abortion and gun rulings
The increasingly unrestrained court has become ever more willing to take up and decisively rule on contentious issues.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2021
The far-right¡¯s new-old war on women
Ultimately, the real problem for many on the far right is liberalism, and particularly the liberation of women from laws and social norms enforcing male domination.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 7, 2018
Bus ¡®conscience convoy¡¯ of 2,000 women heads to Syria to press for rights awareness
An international group of 2,000 women set off from Istanbul on Tuesday for Turkey¡¯s border with Syria, part of a ¡°conscience convoy¡± to raise awareness of the plight of Syrian women after seven years of civil war.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 1, 2018
Meghan Markle hopes to ¡®shine a light¡¯ on women¡¯s rights as British royal
Meghan Markle, the actress fiancee of Britain¡¯s Prince Harry, said on Wednesday that the time was never better to focus on women¡¯s rights as she takes up her work with royal charities.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2017
Islamic dress codes and liberal democracy
Branding calls to ban the burqa as Islamophobic is an illiberal attempt to shut down legitimate public policy debate.
EDITORIALS
Dec 18, 2015
Saudi women vote, and win
The electoral victories of women across Saudi Arabia show that there will be even more pressure for change in the future.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 28, 2015
At U.N., Xi boasts women¡¯s rights but critics quick to note China¡¯s jailing of female activists
China¡¯s President Xi Jinping told the United Nations on Sunday that all Chinese women have the opportunity to excel, touting his government¡¯s record on women¡¯s rights as the United States slammed Beijing and others for jailing women for their views.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2014
Yemeni journalist devoted to bringing democracy, women¡¯s rights to her country
Japan is an ideal model for countries racked by conflict and poverty because of how it resurrected itself from the devastation of war and achieved peace, the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize says.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 27, 2013
Saudi Arabia backsliding on women¡¯s rights
The trumped-up case in which two leading Saudi activists for women¡¯s rights were sentenced to prison is a symptom of the kingdom¡¯s regression on human rights.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 5, 2013
Mideast revolutions languish for Arab women
Though women across the Middle East participated actively in the Arab Spring protests that began in late 2010, they remain second-class citizens.
South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed DMZ
North Korea's propaganda village Gijungdong as seen from a South Korea's observation post inside the Joint Security Area on the Demilitarized Zone in March 2023
Slowly but surely, Tokyo is becoming a hot spot for chicken rice
One of Singapore's most iconic dishes, the humble chicken rice is given an upscale treatment at a new Marunouchi cafe.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
New shinkansen model delivered to Taiwan
A new Taiwan High Speed Rail train car is unloaded from a cargo ship at a port in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Saturday.
Trump orders ¡®inappropriate¡¯ U.S.-South Korean military drills scaled back
A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies over Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Monday, after Seoul said that its annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military exercises with the United States had started.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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