Japanese society still maintains sexist ideology (July 14, 2014)
High court finds hate speech demonstrations illegal (July 9, 2014)
Science Council of Japan calls for women’s minimum age for marriage to be raised to 18 (July 9, 2014)
LDP sexist assemblyman pledged to ‘respect’ women’s rights (June 24, 2014)
Top Court approves SLAPP suit seeking to defeat residents’ opposition to US helipad construction in Okinawa (June 20, 2014)
Cross-party Tokyo assemblywomen protest against sexist jeering (June 20 and 21, 2014)
Court rejects investment company’s claim in SLAPP (May 20, 2014)
Growing number of municipalities invite people to inform on ‘unfair’ welfare recipients (May 18, 2014)
In memory of Kodama Yuji, leader of leprosy patients’ movement (May 14, 2014)
Allowing US access to Japan’s fingerprint database invades privacy: lawyer (April 21, 2014)
Victim of wartime oppressive act calls for repealing State Secrecy Law (April 17, 2014)
Ogata at anti-wiretapping rally talks about his experience being bugged (April 16, 2014)
Racial discrimination goes against the spirit of Buddhist pilgrimage (April 13, 2014)
Osaka City Mayor Hashimoto again insults women with sexist comment (April 9, 2014)
Freelance journalists take state secrecy law to court (March 29, 2014)
Supporters’ efforts lead to court decision to free death-row convict (March 28, 2014)
Gov’t eager to collect personal data using surveillance cameras (March 6, 2014)
Metropolitan museum demands removal of ‘political’ work (March 2, 2014)
Man sues Watami’s home catering company for negligence in his mother’s death (February 27, 2014)
Gov’t aims to provide people’s personal data to security authorities (February 24, 2014)
NGOs question Defense Ministry’s holding of personal info (February 20, 2014)
‘Red purge’ victims file claim at bar association for relief (February 10, 2014)
Secrecy law faces court battle questioning its constitutionality (February 14, 2014)
NHK losing its ‘political neutrality’ (February 14, 2014)
Journalists’ group demands resignation of NHK top officials (February 11, 2014)
Company even tried to obtain fingerprints: ex-arms company worker (February 3, 2014)
Kyoto residents rally against media’s neglect of giving citizens’ perspective (February 3, 2014)
‘Human chain’ surrounds Diet demanding abolition of state secrets law (January 25, 2014)
Lawyers’ group opposes stiffer penalties for young offenders (January 24, 2014)
Munitions firm checks up on workers’ backgrounds using security authorities (January 7, 2014)
Man in wheelchair wages solo protest against secrecy law (January 7, 2014)
Court orders Tokyo to pay 17 Muslims Y90 mil for defamation (January 16, 2013)
Journalists call for joint action to demand revocation of secrecy law (January 15, 2014)
Police monitors citizens observing pref. assembly meeting (December 21, 2013)
Police encouraged internal spying in nuclear energy agency (December 16, 2013)
Anti-conspiracy law will allow emergence of increase in police surveillance (December 15, 2013)
Demonstrators may well be called ‘terrorists’: LDP official (December 4 & 5, 2013)
UN human rights chief voices fear over Japan’s secret protection bill (December 4, 2013)
Anime master Miyazaki Hayao opposes secrets bill (December 4, 2013)
JCP Nihi reveals police monitoring of Muslims in Tokyo (December 6, 2013)
Nuclear Fuel Company colludes with police in monitoring employees using excuse of antiterrorism (November 29, 2013)
SLAPP suit victims gather together at civic event (November 26, 2013)
UN human rights experts criticize Japan’s secrecy bill (November 24, 2013)
I listed all my friends’ names in background check form: former SDF official (November 18, 2013)
Over 100 NGOs in Japan jointly call for repeal of secrets protection bill (November 14, 2013)
Teachers are committing offense by not singing ‘Kimigayo’: JRP representative in Kyoto (October 31, 2013)
All bar associations protest against secrets protection bill (October 29 and 30, 2013)
Legal experts issue statements against state secrets bill (October 29, 2013)
Citizens petition gov’t to prevent hate speech (October 22, 2013)
Court recognizes hate speech as racism (October 8, 2013)