Japanese magazine to close after Abe ally's 'homophobic' article | World news | The Guardian

2018/09/26 209 users article The Guardian

Mio Sugita, 51, was not pressured to resign by Shinzo Abe because he said she was ‘still young’. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images A prominent magazine in Japan is to close after an outcry over an allegedly homophobic article written by a rightwing MP from the rulin... 続きを読む

Japan: Shinzo Abe's political future in doubt as wife linked to cronyism scandal | World news | The Guardian

2018/03/12 52 users Japan The Guardian

A spiralling cronyism scandal linked to the Japanese prime minister and his wife has reached fever pitch after the finance ministry admitted to tampering with records to remove references to the first... 続きを読む

Japan takes no Syrian refugees yet despite giving $200m to help fight Isis | World news | The Guardian

2015/09/09 61 users The Guardian To help $200m

Japan takes no Syrian refugees yet despite giving $200m to help fight Isis Although it is the second largest donor to the UN refugee agency after the US, in 2014 Japan accepted just 11 asylum seekers ... 続きを読む

Tokyo assemblywoman subjected to sexist abuse from other members | World news | theguardian.com

2014/06/20 51 users theguardian.com

Ayaka Shiomura, a member of the Tokyo assembly, was told to get married while she tried to debate support for childrearing. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images Senior Japanese politicians have urg... 続きを読む

Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? | World news | The Observer

2013/10/20 85 users sex The Observer HAVING

What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigatesAi Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-stor... 続きを読む

Japanese pop star shaves head in apology – for night with boyfriend | World news | guardian.co.uk

2013/02/01 66 users guardian.co.uk

Japanese pop star shaves head in apology – for night with boyfriend Minami Minegishi of AKB48 appears in tearful mea culpa on YouTube after breaking her band's strict rules on dating Minami Minegishi ... 続きを読む