Japan

Japan Should Follow – Germany

The Diplomat —  As a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany as a child in 1935, I have a lifelong interest in the ways nations deal with their pasts. I am closely following developments in Japan, in particular the moves to revise Japanese textbooks in a nationalistic direction, the debate about […]

GLOBAL ISLAMIC LEADER ARRIVES IN JAPAN

Source: press@amjinternational.org. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely in Japan on 5 November 2013.   His Holiness flew into Tokyo Narita International Airport from Auckland, New Zealand and arrived at 5pm local time.   Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spent his first […]

A job to die for

RT: by Kim Kyung Hoon – In Japan, karoshi – meaning “death from overwork” – claims around 200 lives annually, according to the Ministry of Labor. Karoshi victims literally work themselves into an early grave, with some giving up to 110 hours a week to their jobs and leaving almost no […]