Japanese government's poor efforts to resolve "comfort women" issue will become a "boomerang" to its political position in the Asia Pacific region, an Indonesian expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Hilaria Bustamante was only 16 years old when, one day more than 70 years ago, three Japanese soldiers abducted her, hauled her onto a military truck and brought her to a garrison where she was reportedly imprisoned and repeatedly raped for a year.
With a dip in the rate for women as well and it still being relatively rare for children to be born out of wedlock in Japan, the figures point to a potential obstacle for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's key policy of boosting the nation's low birth rate.
Menswear shows, traditionally held months before the women hit the runways later in the year, are being slowly airbrushed from the fashion industry's calendar and folded into the women's events, almost as an accessory.
A quiet shift is taking place in how women obtain birth control. A growing assortment of new apps and websites now make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without going to the doctor.
Dr. Denise J. Jamieson, one of the leaders of the pregnancy and birth defects team, which is part of the C.D.C.’s Zika response effort, said the release of the numbers was the first in what will be weekly updates on birth outcomes in Zika pregnancies. As the number of births rises, she said, the agency will be able to release more detailed information.
Gender roles are rapidly changing. Now sons are hearing from their mothers or wives what women used to hear all the time from their fathers or husbands.
People living in areas where the Zika virus is circulating should consider delaying pregnancy to avoid having babies with birth defects, the World Health Organization has concluded.
"This is how racism falls". These are the words of a Saudi man who attended the wedding of his relative, a Saudi bride who married a non-Saudi groom.
Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte was on Thursday accused of sexual harassment and disrespecting women after wolf whistling a female journalist on a nationally televised press conference.
Nine New Zealand military personnel have joined a U.S. Navy hospital ship as part of the largest multilateral humanitarian mission to the Southeast Asia-Pacific region, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) announced Thursday.
Some legislators from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday insisted that Japan should not allow a South Korean foundation helping the 46 surviving "comfort women" who were brutalized in military brothels by the Japanese army during the war to receive funds they were promised.
At least 26 women who attended a four-day music festival in the western German town of Darmstadt this past weekend have reported that they were groped or sexually harassed, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
As many as 26 women have reported sexual assaults at a music festival in the western German city of Darmstadt, German media reported on Tuesday.
Fifteen associations of history scholars and educators in Japan issued a joint statement here on Monday, demanding the related parties sincerely face the "comfort women" issue so as to fundamentally solve this problem.
South Korea's foreign ministry said Monday that a preparatory committee will be launched on Tuesday to establish the World War II sexual slavery victims foundation, which was agreed upon in December last year with Japan.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is to join the London School of Economics (LSE) as a visiting professor on a new masters course on women
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