Female MP awarded Japan’s most sexist comment after casting doubt on sexual assaults
Mio Sugita won the award for Japan’s most sexist comment after accusing women of lying about sexual violence. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images Mio Sugita won the award for Japan’s most sexist comment after accusing women of lying about sexual violence. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images
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Campaigners and some historians say as many as 200,000 women – mostly Koreans, but also Chinese, south-east Asians and a small number of Japanese and Europeans – were forced or tricked into working in military brothels between 1932 and Japan’s defeat in 1945. In his 10-page letter to San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, Yoshimura noted that historians disagreed about the extent of the Japanese imp
Brazilian team Chapecoense among those on board crashed plane
Initial reports said there were six survivors, including players and a travelling journalist, but police said one person had died in hospital. The plane was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members. Chapecoense were flying to play a Copa Sudamerica finals match against Atlético Nacional on Wednesday in Medellin. The Brazilian president, Michel Temer, declared three days of national mourning an
Japanese newspaper retracts term ‘sex slaves’ from wartime coverage
Japan’s biggest-selling newspaper has apologised for its past use of the term “sex slaves” to describe tens of thousands of women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during the second world war. The move by the Yomiuri Shimbun, a conservative broadsheet with a daily circulation of more than 10 million, has fuelled concern that sections of the country’s media have signe
Japanese pop star shaves head in apology – for night with boyfriend
As pop star misdemeanours go, Minami Minegishi's was tame in the extreme – breaking her group's strict dating ban to spend a night with her boyfriend. Yet hours after a magazine published photographs of her leaving his home last month, Minegishi, a member of the wildly popular girl band AKB48, went on to YouTube to issue a tearful apology. "As a senior member of the group, it is my responsibility
China blocks Bob Dylan gigs
Aged 68 and almost half a century past the zenith of his angry, protest-song youth, Bob Dylan must almost have forgotten what it was like to be deemed a threat to society. But it seems at least one place still sees him as a dangerous radical. Dylan’s planned tour of east Asia later this month has been called off after Chinese officials refused permission for him to play in Beijing and Shanghai, hi
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