Protest held in front of Osaka immigration bureau against long detention of asylum seekers
April 14, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
People protest the bill to revise the immigration law in front of the Osaka Regional Immigration Services Bureau in Osaka s Suminoe Ward on April 13, 2021. (Mainichi/Rei Kubo) OSAKA A demonstration opposing the bill to revise the immigration law was held in front of the Osaka Regional Immigration Services Bureau in the city s Suminoe Ward on April 13, with protesters silently displaying placards with messages such as Long detentions violate human rights. The Japanese government submitted the draft revision to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act in the ongoing Diet session. Its aim is said to be to solve issues of long-term detentions of foreign nationals served with deportation orders at immigration facilities. While the bill would establish a supervisory measure system in which people would be permitted to live outside of deten
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 2, 2021) In the last year, hate crimes and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans have increased dramatically around the U.S. and the world. Tuesday, April 6, the University of Kentucky will host two events focused on supporting these communities and understanding racialization through history.
“Asian Hate and COVID-19: A Year of Two Pandemics,” will take place from noon-1 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, on Zoom. This event will feature a panel of UK faculty, staff and students who will discuss how to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the midst of the current crisis. The panel will be led by Keiko Tanaka, director of undergraduate studies for the Department of Community and Leadership Development at UK.
>Keiko Tanaka climbs at The Ice Coop on Feb. 17, 2021, in Boulder. The Ice Coop is a dedicated indoor dry tooling and ice climbing gym where climbers use ice axes and crampons on climbing holds mounted on plywood walls. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)
With her purple ponytail dangling beneath a grey helmet, Ceri Evans kicked one crampon-clad foot, then the other, into the plywood walls of The Ice Coop, a unique Boulder climbing gym, on a recent snowy Wednesday evening.
Smoothly and purposefully, 15-year-old Evans began placing the sharp metal tips of her bright orange ice climbing tools onto holds attached to the wall, periodically biting the handle of one tool as she readjusted her grasp.
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Commuters head to work in Tokyo s Marunouchi district on Tuesday morning, as the government was set to extend the state of emergency later in the day. | KYODO
Kyodo Feb 2, 2021
People across Japan are expressing concern about the economic and social impact of the government s state of emergency extension.
In the Marunouchi business district in Tokyo, Hiroshi Aso, a 47-year-old who lives in the capital s Meguro Ward, said, As the number of infections has not decreased so much, the extension seems unavoidable.