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Voices from Japan

(English feminist journal on Japanese women)

Voices from Japan, the English journal of AJWRC, is the great source of networking with grassroots women’s movements in Japan. Included are featured articles from the latest titles of "Women’s Asia 21", AJWRC’s journal in Japanese as well as recent events, issues and campaigns of women in Japan.

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THE LATEST NUMBER

No.20 - Winter 2008
Gender and Exploitative Migration - Refugees and Trainees in Japan

Contents

Gender and Exploitative Migration - Refugees and Trainees in Japan
Refugees and “Trainees” in Japan - Unfree International Migration and Systematic Discrimination by Hisako Motoyama
Transformation of the Foreign Trainee Program by Sonoko Kawakami
The Distortion of the Foreign Trainee Program by Akira Hatate
Foreign Female Trainees - When there are no Japanese by Chieko Kamibayashi
Discrimination and Human Rights Violations against Foreign Female Trainees by Naomi Hayasaki
Migrant Women as Working Subjects - a conversation with Leny Tolentino
Japan’s Refugee Policy - From Post-World War II to Present Day by Hiroshi Honma
The Confused State of the Refugee Recognition System
Abuses of Refugee Women in Immigration Centers by Misaki Yagishita
This is a Psychological Torture - an interview with Donna Beltran

Recent Events and Movement
Protest against the Series of Sexual Assaults by U.S. Soldiers
Lecture on DV canceled in face of Protest
AJWRC Statement on Crackdown in Burma

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No.19 - Summer 2007: The Convention Against Torture
Lobbying Made a Difference! - The United Nations Committee Against Torture　Recommended That Japan Takes Measures to Address Gender-based Violence by Hisako Motoyama
Executive Summary of “Violation of Women’s Rights in Japan” - Alternative Report to The UN Committee Against Torture 38th Session
The Conclusion and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture
An Important Step for Women - Building on the Recommendations Made by the UN Committee Against Torture by Sharon Smee

Recent Events and Movement
U.S. House of Representatives Pass Resolution Addressing “Comfort Women” Issue
Remembering two “Comfort Women” - Lola Masing (The Philippines) and Avo Marta (East Timor)
Military Bases in Japan by Junko Otsuki
Police Abuse - A Rape Victim’s Second Torture
Layers of Victimization - The Sexual Abuse and Harassment of a Female SDF Official
Law to Widen the Economic Gap - Enactment of the Revised Part-Time Workers Law
No.18 - Winter 2007: Economic Insecurity of Women and the Systemization of Anxiety
“Challenge Again” Initiative: What does it mean to Women? by Hisako Motoyama
Impoverishment of Women and “Challenge Again” Initiative by Midori Ito+Junko Suzuki+Toshie Takenaka (Facilitator Masayo Niwa+Hisako Motoyama)
Understanding the Forces Squeezing Women from the Workplace　interview with Keiko Fukuzawa
Single Mothers Urged to Become Financially “Independent” by Naomi Yuzawa
Community Funding: Financing Loans for Women in Business by Eiko Mukaida
“Public Security” Becomes Individuals’ Own Responsibility　interview with Manabu Ishizaki
Escalation of Security Measures in Schools
Evicting the Homeless is not the Solution by Suzuko Yasue
Let’s Take a Stand against the Systemization of Anxiety: Communication is the Key to Crisis Management by Yuri Morita
Domestic Violence: Victims and Their Partners by Yukako Yanagimoto
Effect of Counterterrorism and Public Safety Control on “Illegal” Immigration by Ken Suzuki

Social Status of Zainichi Korean Women in Japan
Highlighting Multiple Discrimination: Survey Report by Zainichi Korean Women on Ourselves by U-ja Yang
In the Course of Mounting Tension between North Korea and Japan: Difficulties for Zainichi Korean Women to Live in Japan by Jonin Kim

News in Japan
Two Years since the Adoption of the “Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons” by Nobuki Fujimoto
Historical Verdict on the Distortion of TV Program on Women’s Tribunal on “Comfort Women"
Health Minister Criticized for Calling Women “Child Machines”
Saitama Gov. Criticized Reference to “Comfort Women” in Exhibit
No.17 - Summer 2006: Developing Our Communication Tools
Let's Develop Our Communication Tools by Mieko Takenobu
Silence and Self-censorship of Mass Media by Rumiko Nishino
Conservatives Take Aim at Education by Yoshifumi Tawara
Textual Harassment in the Context of the Backlash against Gender Equality by Mari Kotani
"Onnagumi-inochi": A Grass-roots Network Based on Mobile Phones by Shin Sugok + Mieko Takenobu
Screening + Watching + Creating Visuals ＝Renren Eiten Feminist Active Documentary Video Festa, A Mobile Feminist Film Festival Opens by Makiko Wakai

Work and Women's Right to Health
Reproductive Health of Working Women by Kinuyo Kitada
Working Women Suffering from Mental and Physical Illnesses by Midori Ito
Women's Clinic to Support Women's Reproductive Health by Yasuko Ako

News in Japan
Who will Get the Benefit of "the Equality Law"? by Midori Ito
A Pregnancy Puts Off the Amendment of Imperial Household Law by Kumiko Suto
Filipinas Demanded Revision of the Japanese Nationality Law by Citizen’s Network for Japanese Filipino Children
Unbelievable Events Happening in Japan by the Conservatives
No.16 - Winter 2006: To our readers

Social Welfare Reform
The Vicious Cycle of the "Male Breadwinner" Model of Livelihood Security by Mari Osawa
The Dark Relationship between the Suppression of the Social Welfare System and the Backlash Against Gender Equality in Japan by Mieko Takenobu
Pension System: What Would Actually Change? by Masayo Niwa
The Future of the Revised Long-Term Care Insurance Law by Yoshiko Nagai
The Bill to Support the Self-Reliance of People with Disabilities by Keiko Higuchi
Will Domestic Violence Survivors Become "Refugees"? by Mio Takahashi
The Social Security System for Non-Japanese Women by Yuriko Fukushima
The Era of "All Losers" - Create an Alternative Life Style by Hikaru Akutsu
Social Welfare is the Starting Point of Democracy An Interview with Ms. Sumiko Haneda

Special report: Women for Peace
Women's Active Museum on War and Peace An Interview with Ms. Rumiko Nishino
2005 Yayori Award: The Award-Giving Ceremony
No.15 - Summer 2005: Trafficking in Women
“Trafficking in Persons” ? What is the Issue for Whom? by Hisako Motoyama
Twenty Years of “Human Trafficking” ? Experiences at the Women’s Shelter, HELP - Interview with Ms. Rutsuko Shoji
Actions taken by the Japanese Government regarding Trafficking in Persons by Aisa Kiyosue
Amendment of the Ministry of Justice Ordinance regarding “Entertainer Certificate”by Nobuki Fujimoto
In-between “Sex Work” And “Qualified Occupation” by Minako Suzuki
Living in Japan as an Immigrant Woman by Mardonia Nishimoto

Gender and Disasters
Beijing+10 - Women and Disaster by Kuniko Funabashi
Earthquakes and Women ? A Look back on the 10 years following the Great Hanshin Earthquakeby Reiko Masai
Experiences of Non-Japanese Women at the Great Hanshin Earthquake by Kazumi Moriki
Learn from the Power of Community and Women by Ayako Miyoshi
No.14 - Winter 2005: To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa

Rekindle the Movement Toward Beijing + 10
“Participation” overtaken by “Procurement” in this past 5 years by Mieko Takenobu
“Joint-Gender Participation,” “Gender Equality,” and Domestic Violence by Yukiko Tsunoda
Recitation Play “Sunflower - Overcoming Domestic Violence” by Reiko Aoki
Ten Years after the Cairo Conference by Yuriko Ashino
Malpractice at the Fujimi Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology:Reprimanding Surgeons after 25 years of Injustice by Atsuko Konishi
Gender Gap in the Workplace by Kazuko Sakai
The Second Lawsuit against Showa Shell Sekiyu on Discrimination against Women by Yasuko Yunoki
Globalization among Grassroots Networking by Kuniko Funabashi
The Constitutional Crisis of Women’s Rights - "Family Values" Worried to Lead State Restructuring by Hisako Motoyama
Japan after the US Marine Corps Helicopter Crash by Shigeko Urasaki
People’s Resistance in Henoko, Okinawa by Etsuko Urashima
Against the Sexually Discriminatory Distribution of US Military Base Compensation Money by Michiko Nakama
Women’s Museum of War and Peace - Women Remember and Record Past War, and create future peace by Makiko Matsumoto
Political Intervention in the Media - Falsifying the Women International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery by VAWW-NET Japan

Women and HIV/AIDS in Japan
Interviews: Living with HIV/AIDS
Deliberate Discrimination－Women’s Human Rights and HIV/AIDS by Mary Gotoh
HIV/AIDS and Women in Japan in Statistics by Nozomi Mizushima
Report from a Women’s Shelter for Migrant Workers in Japan - Violence against Trafficked Women and the Situations around People Living with HIV/AIDS by Hisano Niikura
The Backlash against Sex Education and HIV/AIDS Issues by Yukihiro Murase
No.13 - Summer 2004: To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa

Are You Afraid to See the Concept of “Family” Change?
Round-table Discussion: Are you Afraid to See the Concept of “Family” Change? by Chieko Akaishi, Kikumi Suda and Mieko Takenobu
15 years of Fighting against the Discrimination of Children Born out of Wedlock - Seeking Respect for Women’s Decisions Interview with Ms. Sumiko Tanaka
A Departure from the Emperor System by Daiko Sakurai
The Union of Non-Japanese Families in Japan, the Nation-State, and Us by Kazumi Moriki
Demands for a Same-Sex Partnership System - Public Tolerance for Same-Sex Couples by Ikuko Sugiura
Forming a New Community - When the “Family” is Falling Apart - by Mieko Takenobu

Women and Elections in Japan
The History and Future of Women’s Participation in Politics in Japanby Kuniko Funabashi
Freedom of Expression in Elections by Kenta Yamada
People without Suffrage by Nobuyuki Sato
What has Changed with the Emergence of Female Politicians? by Mieko Takenobu
No.12 - Winter 2004: To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa

Violence against Girls
Why Violence is Directed towards Girls by Masayo Niwa
Recent Cases where Young Girls were Victims of Violence
The End of SHOUJO, or a Girl - Sexuality of Girls in the Media - by Rika Sakuma Sato
The Women in Girl Games and Bishoujo Games by Kousuke Takahashi
Sex Education in Schools Today by Emiko Shimizu
Problems of the New Law Regulating Internet Dating Sites - Turning Victims into Criminals by Hiroko Goto
Gender and Violence - the case of Mamoru Takuma by Yuri Morita
Sexual Violence and Children’s Rights : CAP- from the Field of Child Abuse Prevention Programs by Yuki Andou

Recent Events in Japan
Gender Mainstreaming in Politics - “Women’s Campaign: No to Sexist Politicians!” by Makiko Matsumoto
Group Prostitution Scandal in China by Niwa Masayo
Launch of Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons by Mina Watanabe
Launch of the Japan Society of Gender and Law by Tomoe Yatagawa
“Women’s Fund for Peace and Human Rights” Symposium by Junko Arimura
Statement on Japanese Supreme Court Decision to Dismiss Final Appeal Filed by Tomasa Salinog and Filipino Survivors of Japan’s Sexual Slavery
5th East Asian Women’s Forum in Hong Kong by Masao Koide

Women and Labor in Japan
Fight to Gain Gender Equal Treatment in the Workplace by Kazuko Sakai
Victory in the Case against Showa Shell Sekiyu for Wage Gender Discrimination by Mitsue Nozaki
Kanematsu Suit Loss by Atsuko Kimura
Sumitomo Trial Compromise Achieved by Admitting Indirect Discrimination by Katsumi Nishimura
No.11 Summer 2003: To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa

Gender and Law - How far have we progressed for guarantee of women’s human rights and gender equality?
To Introduce Gender-Sensitive Perspective into the Law and Judicial System by Michiko Nakajima
The Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society and Us by Yukako Yanagimoto
Has the Equal Employment Opportunity Law Protected Women Workers? by Mieko Takenobu
Misguided Maternal Protection Law by Yukako Ohashi
The Reality and Law Governing Non-Japanese Women Living in Japan by Keiko Ohtsu
The View from Okinawa: Women and US Military Bases by Takako Motonaga
Criminal Law and Violence against Women: Rape in a Gender Equal Society by Tomoe Yatagawa

Recent Events in Japan
29th Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ? - Reports from Japan （June 10 - July 8, 2003） by Hikaru Kasahara
A Lawsuit against the Governor of Tokyo, Mr. Shintaro Ishihara by Kyoko Tanaka
The Urgent Appeal by Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center
Demand to Discard a Bill for a Population Policy by Tomoko Yonezu
A Lawsuit against NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) by Amane Noguchi
Three National Emergency Bills and Japan’s Assistance for the Reconstruction of Iraq by Kuniko Funabashi
Racism in Education: Discrimination against Korean Schools by Young Kim
Manipulation Hidden Behind “Kokoro no Nooto (Notebook of My Mind)” and Government Intervention in Children’s Minds by Hikaru Kasahara
What has been ”Achieved” with the Bill of Gender Change for People with “Gender Identity Disorder”? by Makiko Matsumoto
Feminist Art Activism Questioning Gender and Militarization by Hisako Motoyama
No.10 - Winter 2002: Seeking Sustainable Society? - The Spread Of Globalization And Militarization? by Yayori Matsui

Revisiting sustainable Development from Gender Perspectives
Redefining Sustainable Development From Gender Perspective by Hisako Motoyama
Regain Richness In Subsistence -Multi-Dimensional Approaches Against Globalization Interview with Koyu Furusawa
Toward Sustainable Labor System by Mami Nakano
Investment For The Future -Make A Donation Worth A Cup Of Coffee for An Earth-Friendly Future by Sakae Sugiyama
Report from The 2.23 Symposium To Question The Impartiality And Fareness Of Public Administration Thoughts On the Impartiality Of Public Administration -What Is Going On In The Name of Gender-Equal Participation Reported by Chizuki Akaishi

Information - Open Lecture Series “Nationalism and Gender”
No.4 What's Wrong With Japan? - The Threat Of Stronger Nationalism by Shin Sugok
No.5 The Nationalism And Sexism Underlying Manga by Kei Ishizaka
No.6 How Did The Final Judgement, Handed Down At The Hague, Adjudicate The Issue Of The “Comfort Women”? by Rumiko Nishino
No.09 - Summer 2002: Women's Resistance against War and Violence
Japan Becoming a War State-Let Us Cry Out against War with Women around the World by Yayori Matsui
Succesful Citizen's Campaign on Preventing the Adoption of the Right Wing History Textbook In schools
　-Citizens Stood Up to Say "We Cannot Give This Distorted History Textbook to Our Children." by Sanae Ooyama
　-Our "Common Sense" Appealed to Conscience of Education Board Members by Misako Kikkawa
The Asian Solidarity Conference on Textbook Issue in Japan by Michino Saito
Would Japan Like to Leave Asia and Be Isolated? - My Thoughts on the Visit to the Yasukuni Shrine by Prime Minister Koizumi and the Problem of the History Textbook as a Shingaporean Living in Japan by Foo Choo Wei
Media Crisis: Nation’s Intervention and the Voluntary Regulations by Hiroaki Nakajima
Summary of Judgment of The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery Delivered on 4 December 2001 in the Hague

Women’s Resistance against Sexual Exploitation
Report on Pre-Symposium toward “the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children”- Where are the Men Who Buy Prositutes? Can we Draw a Line between Child and Adult Prostitutes?
　-Let’s Reconsider Our Society’s Tolerance for Prostitution and Pornography by Machiko Kaida
　-What is the Autonomy on Sexuality Women Have Been Seeking for? by Yumiko Ehara
Report on “the Second World Congress against Commercial sexual Exploitation of Children”
　-To Eradicate Sexual Exploitation of Children by Masayo Niwa
　-The Yokohama Global Commitment 2001
The Problem of Buyers in the Sex Market
　-"Enjo-kosai" (assisted dating), is the Problem of Male Adults by Rumiko Harada
　-Supporting the Court Case against Men Involved in Child Prostitution in Asia by Setsuko Tsuboi
　-Change Sexist Society Before Blaming Men by Minako Suzuki

My Feminism-Running along with Art and the Century by Taeko Tomiyama
No.08 - Autumn 2001: Polarization of Working Women under Globalization - Search for a New Vision by Yayori Matsui

Women and Labor in Japan
Women and Work in the Structural Reform - Employment Flow, Deversification, and Low Wage by Mami Nakano
Dialogue with Men: To Abolish Indirect Gender Discrimination based upon Japanese Meritocracy by Makoto Kumazawa and Yayori Matsui
Gender Roles and Women in Care Work - Consequences of the Long-term Care Insuarance Law by Chisaki Sunohara
IT Education and Women's Careers - Beyond IT Training by Reiko Aoki
The Aims of the Equal Treatment Action Campaign 2003 by Kazuko Sakai
Changing the Male Dominated Labor Movement - Women's Union by Midori Ito
Women Creating Jobs for Themselves - Challanges of Women Victims of DV by Ritsuko Nomoto
PAPIE Printers: Putting Workers' Collective Principles into Practice by Akiko Watanabe
Gender Statistics on Employment and Income

We Take Action against War
September 11th and Feminists in Japan by Hisako Motoyama
A Call for Global Solidarity against Global War by Violence Against Women in War Network, Japan
No.07 - Spring　2001: To Our Readers

Violence against Women in Japan
Wartime Sexula Violence and Japan's Sexual Violence Today by Rutsuko Shoji
Men's Violent Sexuality and Recordings of Rape as Pornography by Yusaku Tsuji
The Women's Shelter's Perspectives on Violence against Women - From Trafficking in Prostitution to Domestic Violence by Keiko Ohtsu
Nationalism and Discrimination against Women - Beyond the Threats of "Breakdown of the Family" and "Reinstatement of Motherhood" by Chieko Akaishi
Searching for People's Security - Report from "Okinawa International Forum 2000" by Kaoru Aoyama

Women's Body: A Wager of Power Politics
Reproductive Health and Rights Movement in Japan Today by Yumiko Ohashi
A Moden Version of "Breed and Proliferate"？ - Problems in the Bill for Counteracting the Declining Birthrate by Yuriko Ashino
Feminist Plotting Birth Rate Decline? - An Overview of Sexist-Nationalist Journals in Japan by Hisako Motoyama
What Do Sterile Women Wish for - New Report on Sterility by Junko Kurihara

Report: Women's Action in Japan
Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery - Success Brought by the Power of Women's Transnational Solidality by Yayori Matsui
Feminist Teaching in Japan: Empowering Students to Resist Violence against Women by Debbie Lunny
"Chikan" - Harassment in the Train by Satoko Sando
Women-only Cars on Trains by Amika Harada
Research on Campus Sexual Harrassment by Chisato Shiba
Are You Satisfied with Your Way of Living? - Live Your True Self! by Jun and Stephanie
No.06 - Autumn 2000: To Our Readeres - Women must resist the rise of nationalism and globalization by Yayori Matsui

Nationalistic Tendencies in Japan
Beyond Nationalism and Ethnocentrism - Women creating a violence-free new century by Yayori Matsui
The Problems of the Basic Law on the Cooperative Participation of Men and Women in Society by Michiko Nakajima
The Governor of Tokyo Ishihara is a Proponent of Ethnic Discrimination and an Advocate of Sexism - We Demand His Resignation by Yayori Matsui
What Kind of Era do We Live in? - Nationalism and Gender (AJWRC Symposium Report)
Against Hinomaru and Kimigayo - Live actively in our history - by Sayo Kitamura
The Campaign Against the Legalization of "Hinomaru" as the National Flag and "kimigayo" as the National Anthem by Hisako Motoyama

Japanese Women in Action
Women's Movement in Japan: Present and Future - A Roundtable Discussion -
Women and Politics in Japan by Mariko Mitsui
Ethnic Education and Gender by Yang Jin-kyu

International Feminist Networking
Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery - An NGO Attempt to Restore Justice for Victimized Women and to Prevent Future Wartime Violence against Women- by Yayori Matsui
Women in Okinawa - Continuing Struggle Against the Violence of US Military by Suzuyo Takazato
International Women's Summit in Okinawa - For Whom Is the Security Treaty - by Makiko Kubota

Voices from our Interns
The Door I Found from AJWRC by Chika Watanabe
No.05 - September 1999: To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui

Research Project on Men and Prostitution

Why Men Buy Women?
Survey
Continuing Trends in Men's Views on Prostitution by Eriko Ikeda
Perceptions on Buying Sex in Okinawa by Noriyuki Suzuki
Media
Pimping Media: Current Information on Sex Work by Masayo Niwa
No More Pornographic Fliers! by Yasuko Tanaka
Girl Child
Teenage Prostitution: "Confessions of Buyers & Sellers" by Tomoko Ohji
Child Pornography on the Internet by Sawa Omori
Child Prostitution Bill: ECPAT and Japan by Junko Miyamoto
Opinion
Refuting the Legitimacy of the View that "comfort women" were Licensed Prostitutes by Yuki Fujime
Men's Talk on Prostitution

Asian Women in Japan
The Situation of Foreign Women Living in Hokkaido by Noriko Makishita
Thai Women Who Can Not Go Home by Rutsuko Shoji
Stateless Children Increasing by Keiko Yamasaki
Asian Bridges Change Rural Communities by Yoko Itamoto

Reports
Women's International War Crimes Tribunal in 2000 - Impunity of Wartime Sexual Violence Must be Ended by Yayori Matsui
Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence by Suzuyo Takazato
Victory against "Thai Prostitution Handbook" by Keiko Ohtsu
Report from Maligaya House for Japanese Filipino Children by Citizen's Network for JFC
Toward Women 2000: Japan NGO Alternative Reports
No.04 - August 1998: To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui

Impacts of Globalization on Japanese Women
Labor
Discussion: The Future of Women's Workplace, How Deregulation Hits Women in Japan Deregulation and Women's Labor by Mami Nakano
Social Welfare & Health
Structural Reform: For Whom and For What? by Masayo Niwa
The Health Care System and Women's Human Rights by Masae Fushimi
Consumer
Globalization from a Consumer's Perspective by Junko Arimura
Agriculture
Current Situation of Japanese Women in Agriculture by Mariko Adachi
Finance
Big Bang Program of Financial Deregulation by Mieko Takenobu

Violence against Women in War
The International Conference on Violence against Women in War and Conflict Situations (Tokyo, October 31-November 3,1997)
　-Welcome Speech: "History Cannot be Erased, Women Can No Longer be Silenced" by Yayori Matsui
　-The Tokyo Declaration of the Public Symposium on the International Conference on Violence against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations (November 3, 1997)
VAWW-NET(Violence against Women in War Network)
Honor and Justice to "Comfort Women"! - Global Campaign 2000
Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (December 2000, Tokyo)

Sexual Violence, Media and Women's Human Rights in Japan
Survivors Open the Way - Days at Our Shelter for Battered Women by Keiko Kondo
Legal and Social Attitudes towards Domestic Violence by Eriko Harada
The Media and Women's Human Rights by Eriko Ikeda
From Feminism to Women's Human Rights by Debbie Lunny

Reports
A Survey on Male Attitudes Towards Prostitution
Maligaya house Opened in Manila by Japanese Filipino Children's Network
No.03 - October 1997: To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui

Sexual Slavery, Trafficking in Women and the Growing Revisionist Movement in Japan
How to Look at Sexual Rights? In Search of a Society Free from Sexual Violence and Commercialization of Sex by Yayori Matsui
Japanese Buddhism and Sexuality by Junko Minamoto
Advocating Against Child Pornography in Japan by Junko Miyamoto
Trial of the "Thailand Night Zone Guidebook" by Takashi Kuroda
Young Man's Attitudes Turn Conservative by Tai Hikosaka
Study Group on Men and Prostitution
Why Men Buy Women by Yuko Yoshida

The "Comfort Women" Issue and Japan by Kim Puja
Situation of the Former "Comfort Women" Updates
Sexual Attitudes have Never Changed among Japanese Ex-Imperial Soldier by Eriko Ikeda
Verbal Violence by Conservative Women Hurt the Asian Women Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery Three Times Over by Yayori Matsui
Letter to Mr. Nobukatsu FUJIOKA by Koichi Kimura
Japan Refusing to Look at its Past by Taichiro Kajimura
The Okayama Prefectural Assembly and its Position on "Comfort Women" by Keiko Ichiba
Winds Blowing against the Proposed Reform of the Japanese Civil Code by Chieko Akaishi
Urgent Appeal and Women's Declaration against the Right Wing Historical View

Okinawan Women Fight Back the U.S. Military Base! by Suzuyo Takazato
Alternatives to Militarism and a New Definition of Security

Women's Unpaid Work in Japan
Japanese-Style Corporate Labor Management and Women's Unpaid Work by Mieko Takenobu
Unpaid Work in Relation to Part-time Work in Japan by Kazuko Sakai
Family Business Agreements: The Dark and Bright Sides by Masami Shinozuka
No.02- Augusut 1996: To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui

Feminization of Poverty in Japan
New Campaign to Change an Ineffective Law: Discrimination against Women Workers in Japan by Mami Nakano
Feminization of Poverty in the Aging Society by Yasuko Ichibangase
Personal Experience - Taking Care of the Elderly at Home by Yayuki Mukouyama
Ainu Women Speak Out: The Situation of Indigenous Women in Japan
Korean Women in Japan Face Poverty by Kim Puja
The Japanese Saurus Eating Up the Earth: Our Over - Consumption Causes Poverty in the South by Junko Arimura

Ecological Crisis and Feminism in Japan
Discussion - How to Integrate Feminism and Ecology - Confronting the Environmental Crisis by Yayori Matsui, Etsuko Kaji and Junko Arimura
40 Years Now - Problems with the Minamata Disease Settlement by Kimiyo Ito
The World Agricultural Crisis and Japanese Rural Women's Challange by Mitsuko Hikita
No More Golf Courses! by Nana Morita
Mitsubishi Joint Venture Accused in Malaysia: ARE's Case of Radioactive Dumping by Kazuko Murata

Search for Alternative Future
The Search for Asian Women's Alternative Future by Yayori Matsui
Workshop on Asian Women's Alternatives in Action: Resistance and Change by Dessa Quesada
Symposium - Search for Women's Alternative Society from Feminist and Ecological Perspectives
Our Vision for the 21st Century: Critique on the Japanese Government Vision
To Create the Society Based on Gender Justice, Ecological Sustainability & Global Democracy

Japanese Women in Action
Great Hanshin Earthquake Viewed from Women by Kazumi Moriki
The Eugenic Protection Act by Etsuko Horiguchi
Sexual Harassment Calls for Change by Masayo Niwa
Towards Decriminalization and Empowerment of Survivors of Sex Trafficking by Mieko Fujioka
Women's Struggle against US Bases in Okinawa: Focusing International Attention on the Rape of a Young Girl by Carolyn Francis
"Thailand Prostitution Handbook" Taking Legal Action by Yayoi Okura
Child Prostitution and Child Pornography after 40 years of Prostitution Prevention Law by Naoko Iyori
Military Sex Slavery by Japan by Akiko Yamaguchi
Report - Women's Study Tour to the Philippines by Yayori Matsui
Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center Activities: 1995-1996
No.01 - Augusut 1995: 5000 Japanese Women Going to Beijing - To Empower Themselves as Agents for Change!
A Proposal from Japanese Women - To the Draft Platform for Action of the UN World Conference on Women
Japanese Women's NGOs Working Hard Toward Beijing
Japan's Economic Development and Women by Yayori Matsui
East Action Women's Forum: Declaration and Plan for Action
Column: Women's Political Participation in Japan
Asian Tribunal on Women's Human Rights
Poem: Requiem for the Crushed Flowers by Itsuko Ishikawa
Military Base and Women: Testimony by Suzuyo Takazato
Requiem to Women; June 23, 1995
Imperial Authorization of Abduction, Detention and Military Gang Rape by Tsuneko Osanai
Trafficking in Asian Women and Prostitution in Japan by Yayori Matsui
Situation of Japanese-Filipino Children
Asian Women's ODA Watch Proposed
My War, My Pain by Taeko Tomiyama
Minority and Indigenous Women in Japan by Mieko Fujioka
Women of Japan Inc. by Mieko Takenobu
A Study of Violence by Male Partners in Japan by Tomoko Yunomae
Sexual Harrassment by Masayo Niwa
Sexual Harrassment on Campus: the Yano Case by Kazuko Watanabe
Porn Watch by Nanae Sakamoto
Men on Prostitution by Ashura Mizuno and Kazunori Taniguchi
Opinions: Women's Movement in Japan: Looking Inward, Looking Outward by Debbie Lunny
Opinions: Voice from Generation Y by Club SATIRE
Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center

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Publications Voices from Japan (English feminist journal on Japanese women) Voices from Japan, the English journal of AJWRC, is the great source of networking with grassroots women’s movements in Japan. Included are featured articles from the latest titles of "Women’s Asia 21", AJWRC’s journal in Japanese as well as recent events, issues and campaigns of women in Japan. Exchange program AJWRC sends your organization 2 titles of "Voices from Japan" a year, in exchange for your periodicals or other materials. Please contact for more details: ajwrc@ajwrc.org To subscribe to our newsletter, please contact us at ajwrc@ajwrc.org THE LATEST NUMBER No.20 - Winter 2008 Gender and Exploitative Migration - Refugees and Trainees in Japan Contents Gender and Exploitative Migration - Refugees and Trainees in Japan Refugees and “Trainees” in Japan - Unfree International Migration and Systematic Discrimination by Hisako Motoyama Transformation of the Foreign Trainee Program by Sonoko Kawakami The Distortion of the Foreign Trainee Program by Akira Hatate Foreign Female Trainees - When there are no Japanese by Chieko Kamibayashi Discrimination and Human Rights Violations against Foreign Female Trainees by Naomi Hayasaki Migrant Women as Working Subjects - a conversation with Leny Tolentino Japan’s Refugee Policy - From Post-World War II to Present Day by Hiroshi Honma The Confused State of the Refugee Recognition System Abuses of Refugee Women in Immigration Centers by Misaki Yagishita This is a Psychological Torture - an interview with Donna Beltran Recent Events and Movement Protest against the Series of Sexual Assaults by U.S. Soldiers Lecture on DV canceled in face of Protest AJWRC Statement on Crackdown in Burma BACK NUMBERS No.19 - Summer 2007 The Convention Against Torture Lobbying Made a Difference! - The United Nations Committee Against Torture　Recommended That Japan Takes Measures to Address Gender-based Violence by Hisako Motoyama Executive Summary of “Violation of Women’s Rights in Japan” - Alternative Report to The UN Committee Against Torture 38th Session The Conclusion and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture An Important Step for Women - Building on the Recommendations Made by the UN Committee Against Torture by Sharon Smee Recent Events and Movement U.S. House of Representatives Pass Resolution Addressing “Comfort Women” Issue Remembering two “Comfort Women” - Lola Masing (The Philippines) and Avo Marta (East Timor) Military Bases in Japan by Junko Otsuki Police Abuse - A Rape Victim’s Second Torture Layers of Victimization - The Sexual Abuse and Harassment of a Female SDF Official Law to Widen the Economic Gap - Enactment of the Revised Part-Time Workers Law No.18 - Winter 2007 Economic Insecurity of Women and the Systemization of Anxiety “Challenge Again” Initiative: What does it mean to Women? by Hisako Motoyama Impoverishment of Women and “Challenge Again” Initiative by Midori Ito+Junko Suzuki+Toshie Takenaka (Facilitator Masayo Niwa+Hisako Motoyama) Understanding the Forces Squeezing Women from the Workplace　interview with Keiko Fukuzawa Single Mothers Urged to Become Financially “Independent” by Naomi Yuzawa Community Funding: Financing Loans for Women in Business by Eiko Mukaida “Public Security” Becomes Individuals’ Own Responsibility　interview with Manabu Ishizaki Escalation of Security Measures in Schools Evicting the Homeless is not the Solution by Suzuko Yasue Let’s Take a Stand against the Systemization of Anxiety: Communication is the Key to Crisis Management by Yuri Morita Domestic Violence: Victims and Their Partners by Yukako Yanagimoto Effect of Counterterrorism and Public Safety Control on “Illegal” Immigration by Ken Suzuki Social Status of Zainichi Korean Women in Japan Highlighting Multiple Discrimination: Survey Report by Zainichi Korean Women on Ourselves by U-ja Yang In the Course of Mounting Tension between North Korea and Japan: Difficulties for Zainichi Korean Women to Live in Japan by Jonin Kim News in Japan Two Years since the Adoption of the “Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons” by Nobuki Fujimoto Historical Verdict on the Distortion of TV Program on Women’s Tribunal on “Comfort Women" Health Minister Criticized for Calling Women “Child Machines” Saitama Gov. Criticized Reference to “Comfort Women” in Exhibit No.17 - Summer 2006 Developing Our Communication Tools Let's Develop Our Communication Tools by Mieko Takenobu Silence and Self-censorship of Mass Media by Rumiko Nishino Conservatives Take Aim at Education by Yoshifumi Tawara Textual Harassment in the Context of the Backlash against Gender Equality by Mari Kotani "Onnagumi-inochi": A Grass-roots Network Based on Mobile Phones by Shin Sugok + Mieko Takenobu Screening + Watching + Creating Visuals ＝Renren Eiten Feminist Active Documentary Video Festa, A Mobile Feminist Film Festival Opens by Makiko Wakai Work and Women's Right to Health Reproductive Health of Working Women by Kinuyo Kitada Working Women Suffering from Mental and Physical Illnesses by Midori Ito Women's Clinic to Support Women's Reproductive Health by Yasuko Ako News in Japan Who will Get the Benefit of "the Equality Law"? by Midori Ito A Pregnancy Puts Off the Amendment of Imperial Household Law by Kumiko Suto Filipinas Demanded Revision of the Japanese Nationality Law by Citizen’s Network for Japanese Filipino Children Unbelievable Events Happening in Japan by the Conservatives No.16 - Winter 2006 To our readers Social Welfare Reform The Vicious Cycle of the "Male Breadwinner" Model of Livelihood Security by Mari Osawa The Dark Relationship between the Suppression of the Social Welfare System and the Backlash Against Gender Equality in Japan by Mieko Takenobu Pension System: What Would Actually Change? by Masayo Niwa The Future of the Revised Long-Term Care Insurance Law by Yoshiko Nagai The Bill to Support the Self-Reliance of People with Disabilities by Keiko Higuchi Will Domestic Violence Survivors Become "Refugees"? by Mio Takahashi The Social Security System for Non-Japanese Women by Yuriko Fukushima The Era of "All Losers" - Create an Alternative Life Style by Hikaru Akutsu Social Welfare is the Starting Point of Democracy An Interview with Ms. Sumiko Haneda Special report: Women for Peace Women's Active Museum on War and Peace An Interview with Ms. Rumiko Nishino 2005 Yayori Award: The Award-Giving Ceremony No.15 - Summer 2005 Trafficking in Women “Trafficking in Persons” ? What is the Issue for Whom? by Hisako Motoyama Twenty Years of “Human Trafficking” ? Experiences at the Women’s Shelter, HELP - Interview with Ms. Rutsuko Shoji Actions taken by the Japanese Government regarding Trafficking in Persons by Aisa Kiyosue Amendment of the Ministry of Justice Ordinance regarding “Entertainer Certificate”by Nobuki Fujimoto In-between “Sex Work” And “Qualified Occupation” by Minako Suzuki Living in Japan as an Immigrant Woman by Mardonia Nishimoto Gender and Disasters Beijing+10 - Women and Disaster by Kuniko Funabashi Earthquakes and Women ? A Look back on the 10 years following the Great Hanshin Earthquakeby Reiko Masai Experiences of Non-Japanese Women at the Great Hanshin Earthquake by Kazumi Moriki Learn from the Power of Community and Women by Ayako Miyoshi No.14 - Winter 2005 To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa Rekindle the Movement Toward Beijing + 10 “Participation” overtaken by “Procurement” in this past 5 years by Mieko Takenobu “Joint-Gender Participation,” “Gender Equality,” and Domestic Violence by Yukiko Tsunoda Recitation Play “Sunflower - Overcoming Domestic Violence” by Reiko Aoki Ten Years after the Cairo Conference by Yuriko Ashino Malpractice at the Fujimi Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology:Reprimanding Surgeons after 25 years of Injustice by Atsuko Konishi Gender Gap in the Workplace by Kazuko Sakai The Second Lawsuit against Showa Shell Sekiyu on Discrimination against Women by Yasuko Yunoki Globalization among Grassroots Networking by Kuniko Funabashi The Constitutional Crisis of Women’s Rights - "Family Values" Worried to Lead State Restructuring by Hisako Motoyama Japan after the US Marine Corps Helicopter Crash by Shigeko Urasaki People’s Resistance in Henoko, Okinawa by Etsuko Urashima Against the Sexually Discriminatory Distribution of US Military Base Compensation Money by Michiko Nakama Women’s Museum of War and Peace - Women Remember and Record Past War, and create future peace by Makiko Matsumoto Political Intervention in the Media - Falsifying the Women International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery by VAWW-NET Japan Women and HIV/AIDS in Japan Interviews: Living with HIV/AIDS Deliberate Discrimination－Women’s Human Rights and HIV/AIDS by Mary Gotoh HIV/AIDS and Women in Japan in Statistics by Nozomi Mizushima Report from a Women’s Shelter for Migrant Workers in Japan - Violence against Trafficked Women and the Situations around People Living with HIV/AIDS by Hisano Niikura The Backlash against Sex Education and HIV/AIDS Issues by Yukihiro Murase No.13 - Summer 2004 To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa Are You Afraid to See the Concept of “Family” Change? Round-table Discussion: Are you Afraid to See the Concept of “Family” Change? by Chieko Akaishi, Kikumi Suda and Mieko Takenobu 15 years of Fighting against the Discrimination of Children Born out of Wedlock - Seeking Respect for Women’s Decisions Interview with Ms. Sumiko Tanaka A Departure from the Emperor System by Daiko Sakurai The Union of Non-Japanese Families in Japan, the Nation-State, and Us by Kazumi Moriki Demands for a Same-Sex Partnership System - Public Tolerance for Same-Sex Couples by Ikuko Sugiura Forming a New Community - When the “Family” is Falling Apart - by Mieko Takenobu Women and Elections in Japan The History and Future of Women’s Participation in Politics in Japanby Kuniko Funabashi Freedom of Expression in Elections by Kenta Yamada People without Suffrage by Nobuyuki Sato What has Changed with the Emergence of Female Politicians? by Mieko Takenobu No.12 - Winter 2004 To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa Violence against Girls Why Violence is Directed towards Girls by Masayo Niwa Recent Cases where Young Girls were Victims of Violence The End of SHOUJO, or a Girl - Sexuality of Girls in the Media - by Rika Sakuma Sato The Women in Girl Games and Bishoujo Games by Kousuke Takahashi Sex Education in Schools Today by Emiko Shimizu Problems of the New Law Regulating Internet Dating Sites - Turning Victims into Criminals by Hiroko Goto Gender and Violence - the case of Mamoru Takuma by Yuri Morita Sexual Violence and Children’s Rights : CAP- from the Field of Child Abuse Prevention Programs by Yuki Andou Recent Events in Japan Gender Mainstreaming in Politics - “Women’s Campaign: No to Sexist Politicians!” by Makiko Matsumoto Group Prostitution Scandal in China by Niwa Masayo Launch of Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons by Mina Watanabe Launch of the Japan Society of Gender and Law by Tomoe Yatagawa “Women’s Fund for Peace and Human Rights” Symposium by Junko Arimura Statement on Japanese Supreme Court Decision to Dismiss Final Appeal Filed by Tomasa Salinog and Filipino Survivors of Japan’s Sexual Slavery 5th East Asian Women’s Forum in Hong Kong by Masao Koide Women and Labor in Japan Fight to Gain Gender Equal Treatment in the Workplace by Kazuko Sakai Victory in the Case against Showa Shell Sekiyu for Wage Gender Discrimination by Mitsue Nozaki Kanematsu Suit Loss by Atsuko Kimura Sumitomo Trial Compromise Achieved by Admitting Indirect Discrimination by Katsumi Nishimura No.11 Summer 2003 To Our Readers by Masayo Niwa Gender and Law - How far have we progressed for guarantee of women’s human rights and gender equality? To Introduce Gender-Sensitive Perspective into the Law and Judicial System by Michiko Nakajima The Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society and Us by Yukako Yanagimoto Has the Equal Employment Opportunity Law Protected Women Workers? by Mieko Takenobu Misguided Maternal Protection Law by Yukako Ohashi The Reality and Law Governing Non-Japanese Women Living in Japan by Keiko Ohtsu The View from Okinawa: Women and US Military Bases by Takako Motonaga Criminal Law and Violence against Women: Rape in a Gender Equal Society by Tomoe Yatagawa Recent Events in Japan 29th Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ? - Reports from Japan （June 10 - July 8, 2003） by Hikaru Kasahara A Lawsuit against the Governor of Tokyo, Mr. Shintaro Ishihara by Kyoko Tanaka The Urgent Appeal by Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center Demand to Discard a Bill for a Population Policy by Tomoko Yonezu A Lawsuit against NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) by Amane Noguchi Three National Emergency Bills and Japan’s Assistance for the Reconstruction of Iraq by Kuniko Funabashi Racism in Education: Discrimination against Korean Schools by Young Kim Manipulation Hidden Behind “Kokoro no Nooto (Notebook of My Mind)” and Government Intervention in Children’s Minds by Hikaru Kasahara What has been ”Achieved” with the Bill of Gender Change for People with “Gender Identity Disorder”? by Makiko Matsumoto Feminist Art Activism Questioning Gender and Militarization by Hisako Motoyama No.10 - Winter 2002 Seeking Sustainable Society? - The Spread Of Globalization And Militarization? by Yayori Matsui Revisiting sustainable Development from Gender Perspectives Redefining Sustainable Development From Gender Perspective by Hisako Motoyama Regain Richness In Subsistence -Multi-Dimensional Approaches Against Globalization Interview with Koyu Furusawa Toward Sustainable Labor System by Mami Nakano Investment For The Future -Make A Donation Worth A Cup Of Coffee for An Earth-Friendly Future by Sakae Sugiyama Report from The 2.23 Symposium To Question The Impartiality And Fareness Of Public Administration Thoughts On the Impartiality Of Public Administration -What Is Going On In The Name of Gender-Equal Participation Reported by Chizuki Akaishi Information - Open Lecture Series “Nationalism and Gender” No.4 What's Wrong With Japan? - The Threat Of Stronger Nationalism by Shin Sugok No.5 The Nationalism And Sexism Underlying Manga by Kei Ishizaka No.6 How Did The Final Judgement, Handed Down At The Hague, Adjudicate The Issue Of The “Comfort Women”? by Rumiko Nishino No.09 - Summer 2002 Women's Resistance against War and Violence Japan Becoming a War State-Let Us Cry Out against War with Women around the World by Yayori Matsui Succesful Citizen's Campaign on Preventing the Adoption of the Right Wing History Textbook In schools 　-Citizens Stood Up to Say "We Cannot Give This Distorted History Textbook to Our Children." by Sanae Ooyama 　-Our "Common Sense" Appealed to Conscience of Education Board Members by Misako Kikkawa The Asian Solidarity Conference on Textbook Issue in Japan by Michino Saito Would Japan Like to Leave Asia and Be Isolated? - My Thoughts on the Visit to the Yasukuni Shrine by Prime Minister Koizumi and the Problem of the History Textbook as a Shingaporean Living in Japan by Foo Choo Wei Media Crisis: Nation’s Intervention and the Voluntary Regulations by Hiroaki Nakajima Summary of Judgment of The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery Delivered on 4 December 2001 in the Hague Women’s Resistance against Sexual Exploitation Report on Pre-Symposium toward “the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children”- Where are the Men Who Buy Prositutes? Can we Draw a Line between Child and Adult Prostitutes? 　-Let’s Reconsider Our Society’s Tolerance for Prostitution and Pornography by Machiko Kaida 　-What is the Autonomy on Sexuality Women Have Been Seeking for? by Yumiko Ehara Report on “the Second World Congress against Commercial sexual Exploitation of Children” 　-To Eradicate Sexual Exploitation of Children by Masayo Niwa 　-The Yokohama Global Commitment 2001 The Problem of Buyers in the Sex Market 　-"Enjo-kosai" (assisted dating), is the Problem of Male Adults by Rumiko Harada 　-Supporting the Court Case against Men Involved in Child Prostitution in Asia by Setsuko Tsuboi 　-Change Sexist Society Before Blaming Men by Minako Suzuki My Feminism-Running along with Art and the Century by Taeko Tomiyama No.08 - Autumn 2001 Polarization of Working Women under Globalization - Search for a New Vision by Yayori Matsui Women and Labor in Japan Women and Work in the Structural Reform - Employment Flow, Deversification, and Low Wage by Mami Nakano Dialogue with Men: To Abolish Indirect Gender Discrimination based upon Japanese Meritocracy by Makoto Kumazawa and Yayori Matsui Gender Roles and Women in Care Work - Consequences of the Long-term Care Insuarance Law by Chisaki Sunohara IT Education and Women's Careers - Beyond IT Training by Reiko Aoki The Aims of the Equal Treatment Action Campaign 2003 by Kazuko Sakai Changing the Male Dominated Labor Movement - Women's Union by Midori Ito Women Creating Jobs for Themselves - Challanges of Women Victims of DV by Ritsuko Nomoto PAPIE Printers: Putting Workers' Collective Principles into Practice by Akiko Watanabe Gender Statistics on Employment and Income We Take Action against War September 11th and Feminists in Japan by Hisako Motoyama A Call for Global Solidarity against Global War by Violence Against Women in War Network, Japan No.07 - Spring　2001 To Our Readers Violence against Women in Japan Wartime Sexula Violence and Japan's Sexual Violence Today by Rutsuko Shoji Men's Violent Sexuality and Recordings of Rape as Pornography by Yusaku Tsuji The Women's Shelter's Perspectives on Violence against Women - From Trafficking in Prostitution to Domestic Violence by Keiko Ohtsu Nationalism and Discrimination against Women - Beyond the Threats of "Breakdown of the Family" and "Reinstatement of Motherhood" by Chieko Akaishi Searching for People's Security - Report from "Okinawa International Forum 2000" by Kaoru Aoyama Women's Body: A Wager of Power Politics Reproductive Health and Rights Movement in Japan Today by Yumiko Ohashi A Moden Version of "Breed and Proliferate"？ - Problems in the Bill for Counteracting the Declining Birthrate by Yuriko Ashino Feminist Plotting Birth Rate Decline? - An Overview of Sexist-Nationalist Journals in Japan by Hisako Motoyama What Do Sterile Women Wish for - New Report on Sterility by Junko Kurihara Report: Women's Action in Japan Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery - Success Brought by the Power of Women's Transnational Solidality by Yayori Matsui Feminist Teaching in Japan: Empowering Students to Resist Violence against Women by Debbie Lunny "Chikan" - Harassment in the Train by Satoko Sando Women-only Cars on Trains by Amika Harada Research on Campus Sexual Harrassment by Chisato Shiba Are You Satisfied with Your Way of Living? - Live Your True Self! by Jun and Stephanie No.06 - Autumn 2000 To Our Readeres - Women must resist the rise of nationalism and globalization by Yayori Matsui Nationalistic Tendencies in Japan Beyond Nationalism and Ethnocentrism - Women creating a violence-free new century by Yayori Matsui The Problems of the Basic Law on the Cooperative Participation of Men and Women in Society by Michiko Nakajima The Governor of Tokyo Ishihara is a Proponent of Ethnic Discrimination and an Advocate of Sexism - We Demand His Resignation by Yayori Matsui What Kind of Era do We Live in? - Nationalism and Gender (AJWRC Symposium Report) Against Hinomaru and Kimigayo - Live actively in our history - by Sayo Kitamura The Campaign Against the Legalization of "Hinomaru" as the National Flag and "kimigayo" as the National Anthem by Hisako Motoyama Japanese Women in Action Women's Movement in Japan: Present and Future - A Roundtable Discussion - Women and Politics in Japan by Mariko Mitsui Ethnic Education and Gender by Yang Jin-kyu International Feminist Networking Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery - An NGO Attempt to Restore Justice for Victimized Women and to Prevent Future Wartime Violence against Women- by Yayori Matsui Women in Okinawa - Continuing Struggle Against the Violence of US Military by Suzuyo Takazato International Women's Summit in Okinawa - For Whom Is the Security Treaty - by Makiko Kubota Voices from our Interns The Door I Found from AJWRC by Chika Watanabe No.05 - September 1999 To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui Research Project on Men and Prostitution Why Men Buy Women? Survey Continuing Trends in Men's Views on Prostitution by Eriko Ikeda Perceptions on Buying Sex in Okinawa by Noriyuki Suzuki Media Pimping Media: Current Information on Sex Work by Masayo Niwa No More Pornographic Fliers! by Yasuko Tanaka Girl Child Teenage Prostitution: "Confessions of Buyers & Sellers" by Tomoko Ohji Child Pornography on the Internet by Sawa Omori Child Prostitution Bill: ECPAT and Japan by Junko Miyamoto Opinion Refuting the Legitimacy of the View that "comfort women" were Licensed Prostitutes by Yuki Fujime Men's Talk on Prostitution Asian Women in Japan The Situation of Foreign Women Living in Hokkaido by Noriko Makishita Thai Women Who Can Not Go Home by Rutsuko Shoji Stateless Children Increasing by Keiko Yamasaki Asian Bridges Change Rural Communities by Yoko Itamoto Reports Women's International War Crimes Tribunal in 2000 - Impunity of Wartime Sexual Violence Must be Ended by Yayori Matsui Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence by Suzuyo Takazato Victory against "Thai Prostitution Handbook" by Keiko Ohtsu Report from Maligaya House for Japanese Filipino Children by Citizen's Network for JFC Toward Women 2000: Japan NGO Alternative Reports No.04 - August 1998 To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui Impacts of Globalization on Japanese Women Labor Discussion: The Future of Women's Workplace, How Deregulation Hits Women in Japan Deregulation and Women's Labor by Mami Nakano Social Welfare & Health Structural Reform: For Whom and For What? by Masayo Niwa The Health Care System and Women's Human Rights by Masae Fushimi Consumer Globalization from a Consumer's Perspective by Junko Arimura Agriculture Current Situation of Japanese Women in Agriculture by Mariko Adachi Finance Big Bang Program of Financial Deregulation by Mieko Takenobu Violence against Women in War The International Conference on Violence against Women in War and Conflict Situations (Tokyo, October 31-November 3,1997) 　-Welcome Speech: "History Cannot be Erased, Women Can No Longer be Silenced" by Yayori Matsui 　-The Tokyo Declaration of the Public Symposium on the International Conference on Violence against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations (November 3, 1997) VAWW-NET(Violence against Women in War Network) Honor and Justice to "Comfort Women"! - Global Campaign 2000 Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (December 2000, Tokyo) Sexual Violence, Media and Women's Human Rights in Japan Survivors Open the Way - Days at Our Shelter for Battered Women by Keiko Kondo Legal and Social Attitudes towards Domestic Violence by Eriko Harada The Media and Women's Human Rights by Eriko Ikeda From Feminism to Women's Human Rights by Debbie Lunny Reports A Survey on Male Attitudes Towards Prostitution Maligaya house Opened in Manila by Japanese Filipino Children's Network No.03 - October 1997 To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui Sexual Slavery, Trafficking in Women and the Growing Revisionist Movement in Japan How to Look at Sexual Rights? In Search of a Society Free from Sexual Violence and Commercialization of Sex by Yayori Matsui Japanese Buddhism and Sexuality by Junko Minamoto Advocating Against Child Pornography in Japan by Junko Miyamoto Trial of the "Thailand Night Zone Guidebook" by Takashi Kuroda Young Man's Attitudes Turn Conservative by Tai Hikosaka Study Group on Men and Prostitution Why Men Buy Women by Yuko Yoshida The "Comfort Women" Issue and Japan by Kim Puja Situation of the Former "Comfort Women" Updates Sexual Attitudes have Never Changed among Japanese Ex-Imperial Soldier by Eriko Ikeda Verbal Violence by Conservative Women Hurt the Asian Women Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery Three Times Over by Yayori Matsui Letter to Mr. Nobukatsu FUJIOKA by Koichi Kimura Japan Refusing to Look at its Past by Taichiro Kajimura The Okayama Prefectural Assembly and its Position on "Comfort Women" by Keiko Ichiba Winds Blowing against the Proposed Reform of the Japanese Civil Code by Chieko Akaishi Urgent Appeal and Women's Declaration against the Right Wing Historical View Okinawan Women Fight Back the U.S. Military Base! by Suzuyo Takazato Alternatives to Militarism and a New Definition of Security Women's Unpaid Work in Japan Japanese-Style Corporate Labor Management and Women's Unpaid Work by Mieko Takenobu Unpaid Work in Relation to Part-time Work in Japan by Kazuko Sakai Family Business Agreements: The Dark and Bright Sides by Masami Shinozuka No.02- Augusut 1996 To Our Readers by Yayori Matsui Feminization of Poverty in Japan New Campaign to Change an Ineffective Law: Discrimination against Women Workers in Japan by Mami Nakano Feminization of Poverty in the Aging Society by Yasuko Ichibangase Personal Experience - Taking Care of the Elderly at Home by Yayuki Mukouyama Ainu Women Speak Out: The Situation of Indigenous Women in Japan Korean Women in Japan Face Poverty by Kim Puja The Japanese Saurus Eating Up the Earth: Our Over - Consumption Causes Poverty in the South by Junko Arimura Ecological Crisis and Feminism in Japan Discussion - How to Integrate Feminism and Ecology - Confronting the Environmental Crisis by Yayori Matsui, Etsuko Kaji and Junko Arimura 40 Years Now - Problems with the Minamata Disease Settlement by Kimiyo Ito The World Agricultural Crisis and Japanese Rural Women's Challange by Mitsuko Hikita No More Golf Courses! by Nana Morita Mitsubishi Joint Venture Accused in Malaysia: ARE's Case of Radioactive Dumping by Kazuko Murata Search for Alternative Future The Search for Asian Women's Alternative Future by Yayori Matsui Workshop on Asian Women's Alternatives in Action: Resistance and Change by Dessa Quesada Symposium - Search for Women's Alternative Society from Feminist and Ecological Perspectives Our Vision for the 21st Century: Critique on the Japanese Government Vision To Create the Society Based on Gender Justice, Ecological Sustainability & Global Democracy Japanese Women in Action Great Hanshin Earthquake Viewed from Women by Kazumi Moriki The Eugenic Protection Act by Etsuko Horiguchi Sexual Harassment Calls for Change by Masayo Niwa Towards Decriminalization and Empowerment of Survivors of Sex Trafficking by Mieko Fujioka Women's Struggle against US Bases in Okinawa: Focusing International Attention on the Rape of a Young Girl by Carolyn Francis "Thailand Prostitution Handbook" Taking Legal Action by Yayoi Okura Child Prostitution and Child Pornography after 40 years of Prostitution Prevention Law by Naoko Iyori Military Sex Slavery by Japan by Akiko Yamaguchi Report - Women's Study Tour to the Philippines by Yayori Matsui Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center Activities: 1995-1996 No.01 - Augusut 1995 5000 Japanese Women Going to Beijing - To Empower Themselves as Agents for Change! A Proposal from Japanese Women - To the Draft Platform for Action of the UN World Conference on Women Japanese Women's NGOs Working Hard Toward Beijing Japan's Economic Development and Women by Yayori Matsui East Action Women's Forum: Declaration and Plan for Action Column: Women's Political Participation in Japan Asian Tribunal on Women's Human Rights Poem: Requiem for the Crushed Flowers by Itsuko Ishikawa Military Base and Women: Testimony by Suzuyo Takazato Requiem to Women; June 23, 1995 Imperial Authorization of Abduction, Detention and Military Gang Rape by Tsuneko Osanai Trafficking in Asian Women and Prostitution in Japan by Yayori Matsui Situation of Japanese-Filipino Children Asian Women's ODA Watch Proposed My War, My Pain by Taeko Tomiyama Minority and Indigenous Women in Japan by Mieko Fujioka Women of Japan Inc. by Mieko Takenobu A Study of Violence by Male Partners in Japan by Tomoko Yunomae Sexual Harrassment by Masayo Niwa Sexual Harrassment on Campus: the Yano Case by Kazuko Watanabe Porn Watch by Nanae Sakamoto Men on Prostitution by Ashura Mizuno and Kazunori Taniguchi Opinions: Women's Movement in Japan: Looking Inward, Looking Outward by Debbie Lunny Opinions: Voice from Generation Y by Club SATIRE Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center Page Top