Japan
Japanese workers fight Sony “downsizing room”
April 19, 2013In Japan, large corporations are using "downsizing rooms" as a humiliating pressure tactic to force their employees to quit their jobs.
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Unions oppose letting Japan into trade pact
April 18, 2013The Steelworkers, the Autoworkers and the AFL-CIO formally oppose letting Japan join talks on the latest controversial "free trade" treaty, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Japan’s right: going nuke?
October 17, 2012Behind the current impasse over five tiny specks of land in the East China Sea is an influential right-wing movement in Japan.
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Post-Fukushima Japan looking into fracking?
October 4, 2012With anti-nuclear protests heating up after Japan revoked a previous anti-nuke plan, the country is desperately looking for energy alternatives.
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Japan withdraws goal of no nukes by 2040
September 25, 2012If the Japanese government continues to cater to corporate interests, critics fear, it will accommodate neither public demand nor scientific fact.
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