Aichi Residents Win a Legal Victory for Takae, Okinawa and for Peace
Two hundred residents of Aichi Prefecture, where I live, have just scored a significant victory for peace and justice.
Two hundred residents of Aichi Prefecture, where I live, have just scored a significant victory for peace and justice.
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines invites you to participate in a week of solidarity and action, from Sept 18-24th to End U.S. support of the Duterte Regime!
A petition to President Joe Biden was read aloud in English and Japanese at the White House and at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 21, 2021, by David Swanson and Hideko Otake.
On June 23, there was an Okinawa Memorial Day online Zoom event. Here you can watch all the collected videos with English/Japanese subtitles entirely on the YOUTUBE channel, “Stand With Okinawa NY” one by one.
On the 71st anniversary of what is officially recognized as the start of the Korean War, World BEYOND War hosted a panel discussion with preeminent Korea historian Bruce Cumings, Korean-American peace activist Christine Ahn, and Youngjae KIM, a peace activist based in Seongju, South Korea.
In the last few years, the government of Japan has severely cracked down on dozens of members of a branch of a labor union called the “Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers, Kansai Area Branch”
On June 10, 2021, 2,400 liters of “firefighting water” containing PFAS (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances) were accidentally released from the U.S. Army Oil Storage Facility in Uruma City and other nearby locations, according to Ryukyu Shimpo an Okinawan news agency.
US government and civil society, please do not be party to the Japanese Government’s refusal to settle historical wrongs: Correct historical awareness and an end-of-war declaration in Korea are levers for peace in Northeast Asia.
This coming Friday, newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Japan’s Prime Minister SUGA Yoshihide for a summit that the mainstream media has presented as democratic and peace-loving countries casually getting together in order to discuss what should be done about the “China problem.”