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My Father-in-Law, the Japanese Radical

My Father-in-Law, the Japanese Radical

Visitors to Japan’s main international hub are still greeted by a sign saying ‘Down With Narita Airport’, a giant middle finger waved by diehards from a different era. Years before we met, I learned about my Japanese father-in-law in an American newspaper. A story in the late 1990s reviewed

「在日米海軍が検出した５μシーベルト時についての再検証　Stars and Strips紙の原発報道事故報道内容分析を振り

「在日米海軍が検出した５μシーベルト時についての再検証　Stars and Strips紙の原発報道事故報道内容分析を振り

This article has not yet been translated into English This version of this article was first published at the following link. はじめに本稿[1]は、2011年３月の福島第１原発事故の報道検証として行われた、米軍の準機関紙とされる「スターズアンドストライプス紙」（以下、S&S）の紙面分析を起点にしている。S&Sのアジア・太平洋版を対象として『情報化社会・メディア研究』誌の震災報道検証プロジェクト[2]が2013年に公表した論考を、発災後10年を経て、ある１本のＳ＆Ｓ記事について「再検証」を行い、

Unfiltered On the Ground: The Olympics: Complex Feelings

Unfiltered On the Ground: The Olympics: Complex Feelings

Name: Max Power* Hometown: Newcastle, England Present City: Newcastle, England I’m from Newcastle, England, and next to where I live is a marine college that’s recognized worldwide for its engineering, navigation and ship-related disciplines. My dad is from Saudi Arabia, and he was paid by the Saudi government

Unfiltered on the Ground: Traveler Thoughts

Unfiltered on the Ground: Traveler Thoughts

Name: Masatoshi Nishimura Hometown: Osaka, Japan Present City: Toronto, Canada The political issues that people care about are so different. I guess that in North America and Europe they are very concerned about racism. Feminism is quite a big deal there too, the number of women CEOs and whatnot. I

Don’t Look Back; an asylum story with hard lessons for Japan

Don’t Look Back; an asylum story with hard lessons for Japan

Gloria Onyekweli came to Japan just before Christmas in 2006, claiming asylum from her native Nigeria. She left her homeland after she said her fiancé, a political activist caught up in the Biafran separatist movement, was killed by the government. When she was told she was being sought by the

Support for Women by Women

Support for Women by Women

In response to the prolonged stress that the pandemic has placed on women, a group of lawyers, union organizers and other professionals such as nurses and psychiatric counselors, all themselves women, offered a free consultation session in Tokyo on July 10th and 11th 2021. The event was organized by Daini

Left in The Dark: Lack of support for sex workers during the pandemic pushes some to the brink

Left in The Dark: Lack of support for sex workers during the pandemic pushes some to the brink

The media has covered the struggles of Japanese restaurants, bars and other service industries since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, but what about sex workers? Thousands of women in Japan who work in call-out services called “delivery health,” charging men for erotic encounters in hotels or homes, find