Okinawa’s economic dependence on US bases drastically reduced

The Okinawa prefectural government stresses on its website, “If more U.S. base sites are returned, their use for other purposes will pave the way for economic development and help reduce the economic dependence on U.S. bases even further.”

Only Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany had ‘comfort women’ system: modern historian

“If Mayor Hashimoto continues to insist that there are also other counties that had a system similar to that implemented by Japan, he should make sure he can provide the evidence”, said Professor Hayashi Hiroshi.

JCP Yamashita points to UNIQLO as example of ‘black corporation’

A Japanese Communist Party lawmaker, by citing major clothing retailer UNIQLO as an example of ruthless employers exploiting “disposable” workers, demanded that the government make public the names of so-called “black corporations”.