Many older single women in Japan are struggling to make ends meet in their low-paid, nonregular jobs and are trapped in casual employment in a country with a persistently wide gender gap.
Mika Aino worked eight years as a women s counselor for a municipality in Hiroshima Prefecture, but burned out and strapped for cash, the 54-year-old domestic abuse survivor decided to call it quits.
Film director Kazuhiro Terada’s latest work is again about giving a voice to people who challenge authority, but those he was supporting wanted nothing to do with the project.
The Justice Ministry’s draft of legal revisions to improve the handling of sex crimes has infuriated rape victims and their supporters who said they again feel abandoned by the government.
The government must consider phasing out requiring doctors to report the number of all COVID-19 patients in their care, experts on infectious diseases said in their proposal to the government on Aug. 2.