Union in Hitachi Group company wins shorter working hours

Winning shorter working hours, a labor union in a Hitachi group company celebrated the International Workers’ Day of May Day which originated in the eight-hour workday movement.

What became of Japanese ‘comfort women’?

Wartime sex slaves of the Imperial Japanese Army included Japanese women. Even though they have not come forward, many official documents and soldiers’ diaries suggest their presence.

Supreme Court ruling cannot justify the use of collective self-defense right: ex-judge

The Abe administration often cites a Supreme Court ruling in 1959 in order to justify the exercise of the right to collective self-defense. Persons involved in the lawsuit, however, criticize the government’s claim as completely unreasonable.