Japan is the only developed country without anti-discrimination laws, and ethnic Koreans are often targeted On a chilly February evening in 2013, Shinhae Lee, a journalist and ethnic Korean woman who has lived in Japan her whole life, was at home by herself in Osaka when her computer pinged with a message from a friend. It said the leader of the nationalist group Zaitokukai had just announced on t

Day of the DeadDay of the Dead celebrations in Mexico are revealing what many believe to be a unique understanding of death. Pan De Muerto, one of the traditional Day of the Dead foodstuffs that is made throughout Mexico. In Oaxaca, these breads are made with marzipan heads and used as an offering at alters. In the weeks leading up to the Day of the Dead, bakeries throughout Oaxaca work through th

Pretty much every name offers some possibility for being turned into a schoolyard taunt. But even though I'm an adult who left the schoolyard decades ago, my name still inspires giggles among the technologically minded. My last name is "Null," and it comes preloaded with entertainment value. If you want to be cheeky, you will probably start with "Null and void." If you're a WIRED reader, you might

Three generations of Palestinian women reflect on how female fighters have always been a part of the resistance. Raja Mustafa pulls out a tattered issue of Palestinian Revolution magazine. It is from 1993, the last year of the first Palestinian uprising, or Intifada. Inside it is a black and white photograph of Raja taken almost 25 years ago. An Israeli soldier stands in the foreground. Raja is be

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Japanese protesters invoke human rights abuse and painful memories of war to oppose US Marine airbase on their island. Protesters have been staging demonstrations against the US airbase on Okinawa island [Hitoshi Maeshiro/EPA] Okinawa, Japan – The governor of this island, Takeshi Onaga, has annoyed both Washington and Tokyo by taking the case of his people against a US military base directly to th

An online furor has broken out over a controversial illustration that depicts a refugee girl from Syria as a selfish freeloader, with some labeling the work, drawn by a conservative manga artist, as racist. At the center of the controversy is an illustration depicting an unkempt girl with a wry smile. It is believed to be based on a real-life malnourished refugee who was forced to flee the war-tor

OSLO (Reuters) - Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said on Monday. Television crews stand outside the Global Seed Vault before the opening ceremony in Longyearbyen February 26, 2008. REUTERS/Bob Strong The seeds, including samples of wheat, barley and grasses suited to dr

Relics of Romania’s communist industrial pastDespite collapse of communism, Romanians still live in derelict colonies built to support the now-ruined industries. Children play in front of an unfinished apartment building in Anina Noua, a former mining colony. The town of Anina was developed around the exploitation of a coal pit. The mining industry collapsed in 1996 and all the mines in Anina were

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A young migrant girl holds up a sign during a protest in front of a train at Bicske railway station, Hungary, September 4, 2015. Hundreds of migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, woke after a night spent on a packed train stranded at a...more A young migrant girl holds up a sign during a protest in front of a train at Bicske railway station, Hungary, September 4, 2015. Hundreds of m

The word migrant has become a largely inaccurate umbrella term for this complex story. According to the UN, the majority of those arriving in Europe are fleeing war [Reuters] Imagine waking your children in the morning. Imagine feeding and dressing them. Imagine pulling a little girl’s hair into a ponytail, arguing with a little boy about which pair of shoes he wants to wear. Now imagine, as you a

An angry 1970s comic about Hiroshima by a bomb survivor sparks new arguments about Japan's military past Keiji Nakazawa survived the bomb but didn’t talk about it for twenty years. People from his native Hiroshima were regarded as victims, not survivors, even in the wording of laws that gave them special medical care. So when he moved to Tokyo to become a comic book artist in 1961, Nakazawa kept h

News of mounting death toll comes as UN Security Council backs resolution to probe chlorine gas attacks in the country. Almost a quarter of a million people, including nearly 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it broke out in March 2011, a UK-based activist group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday that it had documented the deaths of 24