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ブックマーク / www.economist.com (3)

  • Spin and substance

    IN OSAKA’s strongly Korean Tsuruhashi district, a 14-year-old Japanese girl went out into the streets last year calling through a loudspeaker for a massacre of Koreans. In Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo neighbourhood, home to one of the largest concentrations of Koreans in Japan, many people say the level of anti-foreigner vitriol—on the streets and on the internet—is without modern precedent. Racists chant s

    Spin and substance
  • Gulag for gaijin

    Gulag for gaijinAn account of horrid treatment for foreign travellers in the "special legal zone" of Narita international airport By K.N.C. | TOKYO AN EXTRAORDINARY story is making the rounds among the hacks and other expats in Japan. A Canadian freelance journalist who has lived in Japan for years fell into the ugly whirlpool of Japan's immigration-and-detention system. For years human-rights mon

  • Hit the road

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    twilightmoon99 2011/08/03
    RT @TheEconomist: Japan's sexist labour market: Skirting the country's self-defeating lack of child care
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