yesterday we were joined by my colleague and friend nograysunflowers who is teaching english in the land of the midnight sun for the summer semester and look forward to her continuing contribution to the conversation...so amnesty international has sections in some 150 different countries, like japan, so we can check in through he amnesty international usa web site, select japan from the select a country menu under the heading what's going on where in the upper right corner and you'll learn that...
Elections in September increased the majority of the ruling party. The deployment of Japanese troops as overseas peacekeepers renewed public debate on whether to revise Article 9 of the Constitution which defines Japan as pacifist.
In November, the former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, left Japan for Chile where he was arrested at the request of the Peruvian authorities, pending an extradition request.
The 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, and renewed efforts by the government to secure a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, increased tensions in the east Asia region. The government was criticized for its continued failure to apologize adequately and provide full reparations for wartime crimes against humanity such as forced sexual slavery, and for the way Japanese history textbooks portray its past aggressions.
The Diet (parliament) debated but did not adopt a Bill first submitted in 2003 to establish a national human rights commission.
The government indicated that it would accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court by 2009.
so right now you can Ensure Justice for Survivors of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery and take actions in less time that it takes to get your shoes back on at the end of an airport security line...and look for more postings from tokyo and beyond...
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