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DISCRIMINATION

As of Friday, there were over 1.5 million replies to X posts by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, out of which 7.5% mentioned foreign nationals or immigrants, according to a Jiji analysis.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 25, 2026
Replies mentioning foreign citizens surge on Takaichi’s X account
In some cases, comments against immigrants were repeated even when the prime minister did not mention policies pertaining to foreign nationals.
A 16-member screening committee at the University of Tokyo said it had been looking for a leader with strong ethical standards who could restore public trust amid a series of scandals.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 21, 2026
Education ministry calls for University of Tokyo to review president selection
It is the first time the government has requested a review of how a university selected its president.
The University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute on the Hongo Campus in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 14, 2026
The University of Tokyo’s first female president, then the backlash
Japan is ranked 117th among 145 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Gender Gap Index.
Members of the all-women "The Power of Mama" volunteer firefighting team spray water onto smoldering peatland in the village of Tanjungpura, West Kalimantan, Borneo, on Sept. 26.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 30, 2026
Women fight fires and sexism in Indonesian Borneo
Women are fighting fires in a region where traditional gender roles define women as the main providers of childcare, cooking and cleaning.
New college graduates attend a jobs fair in Tokyo. 91AV原创 gender gap partially persists because paused careers often block women’s return to regular work.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2026
91AV原创 gender gap isn’t where the rankings say it is
The telling number is what happens to a 29-year-old woman after her first child — and whether the door is still open when she is ready to return.
Hindu monks from Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha take part in a religious ceremony in front of the Eiffel Tower before a ceremonial parade along the river Seine in Paris on Sept. 3.
WORLD
Sep 8, 2026
Hindu group apologizes as Eiffel Tower visit sparks strike
A visiting delegation from a powerful Hindu religious group allegedly asked that female Eiffel Tower employees stay out of sight.
Girls study math inside a secret classroom, hidden inside a girl’s school in Afghanistan in 2026.
WORLD / Society
Aug 31, 2026
Inside Afghanistan’s secret schools for girls
Across the country, girls are risking arrest by going to school in secret, refusing to give up their fight for an education.
Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, attends a U.S.-backed photo exhibit highlighting missing Uyghurs or those alleged to be held in Chinese-run camps outside the United Nations in Geneva in September 2021.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ law is already harming Uyghurs
China’s new ethnic?unity law is already driving forced assimilation at home and enabling repression abroad, prompting urgent calls for global action.
Japanese goalkeeper Zion Suzuki celebrates at the end of the 2026 World Cup Group F football match between Tunisia and Japan at the Monterrey Stadium in Guadalupe, Mexico, on June 20.
SOCCER
Aug 18, 2026
Racist abuse spurred Suzuki as Japan goalkeeper set for Premier League
Zion Suzuki has had to overcome costly mistakes and racist abuse on the way to becoming the most expensive Japanese goalkeeper in history.
Afghan girls take their midterm exams at a primary school in Kabul on July 21. Fathers in Afghanistan choked up in despair describing the education ban that stops their daughters going beyond primary school.
WORLD / Society
Aug 11, 2026
Torment of Afghan fathers as daughters deprived of education
A U.N. poll found 90% of Afghan men wanted girls to go to secondary school, with nearly two thirds considering it “pious” for fathers to support a daughter’s education.
Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been tasked with rooting out what the administration calls illegal diversity, equity and inclusion practices that it says gave preferential treatment to women and racial minorities in hiring and promotions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2026
Trump’s diversity crackdown reverberates through U.S. boardrooms
Appointments of women ?and racial minorities to S&P 500 boards have dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sign a joint declaration on economic security cooperation in Canberra in May.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 27, 2026
Sanae Takaichi: The prime minister nobody defended
Anthony Albanese’s melon joke revealed which women leaders the world feels safe mocking.
Students at a school for refugees in Kuala Lumpur participate in learning activities on July 13, amid a spike in online hate speech in Malaysia targeting the Rohingya community.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2026
Rohingya schools in Malaysia face closures amid online surge in hate speech
Malaysia does not officially recognize the Rohingya as refugees, branding them migrants who have entered the country illegally.
Takashi Ono and his wife, Chikiko, parents of Kazuya Ono, a Tsukui Yamayuri-en resident who survived the July 2016 mass stabbing at the care home, display a photo of their son after he recovered from his injuries at their home in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 26, 2026
Sagamihara survivor shows what inclusion can look like
Kazuya Ono’s story offers not only hope for what that future might look like, but a concrete example of success.
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on May 31.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 18, 2026
Chinese media’s ‘racist’ video of monkey in Filipino costume draws Manila’s rebuke
The animated video also depicted the monkey as acting on orders from U.S. and Japan, and being hit by a water cannon.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Friday
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 15, 2026
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims
The lawsuit ?says that the company relied on factors such as productivity and AI token usage when it slashed thousands of jobs earlier this year.
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
COMMUNITY / Issues
Jul 5, 2026
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara’s latest work, “Now and Then,” bridges a historical atrocity with the present-day treatment of asylum-seekers.
Private hire driver Ali Haydor is reflected in his vehicle wing mirror in Southampton, Britain, on Feb. 23. The 44-year-old, who moved from Bangladesh at age five, says he sometimes wishes he could hide his heritage and identity.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 30, 2026
Anti-migrant politics sparking resurgence of racism in the U.K., polls suggest
A focus on crimes committed by members of ethnic minorities by right-wing activists and politicians has tapped into tensions over national identity and immigration.
Health minister Kenichiro Ueno lays flowers during a ceremony held in Tokyo Monday to restore the honor of leprosy patients in Japan.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 22, 2026
Japan commemorates victims of discriminatory leprosy policy
A ceremony was held in Tokyo to restore the honor of leprosy patients in Japan, who had suffered severe discrimination based on a policy of forced isolation.
People working in human resources departments participate in a workshop in Tokyo in January. The participants played a card game in which they took on roles of people with various disabilities.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jun 22, 2026
Japanese companies get serious about workplace DEI
Firms are stepping up their efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion in a bid to improve their management of human resources.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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