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Period poverty under scrutiny in Japan as women campaign to reduce one-sided cost burden
February 14, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Various types of feminine hygiene products are lined up in a store in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2021. (Mainichi/Miyuki Fujisawa) TOKYO Recently, we ve been coming across more and more stories about menstruation. A Japanese manga on the subject, Seiri-chan, or Ms. Period, became a hit and was made into a 2019 movie starring popular actors. TV personalities even talk cheerfully about menstruation on special TV shows. But at the same time, there are reportedly people who cannot afford the high cost of feminine hygiene products, despite them being an absolute essential for women who menstruate. The Mainichi Shimbun spoke to one organization working to ease the burden of buying sanitary products, and heard about the messages they received from desperate people struggling under the current situation.
Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori reportedly to resign amid backlash over sexist remarks
February 11, 2021 / 5:06 AM / CBS/AP Questions about plans for Tokyo Olympics
Tokyo The long saga of Japan s embattled Olympics boss Yoshiro Mori appeared to be near an end on Thursday. Japan s Kyodo news agency and others reported citing unnamed sources that Mori was to step down on Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. The move would follow a backlash over sexist comments he made about women more than a week ago, and an ensuing and rare public debate in Japan about gender equality. A decision was expected to be announced on Friday when the organizing committee s executive board meets. The executive board of Tokyo 2020 is overwhelming male, as is its day-to-day leadership.
U.S. President Joe Biden has been in office less than a month, and his administration is already facing a test on its approach to China the ongoing military coup in Myanmar. Stephen R. Nagy, a professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, discusses Biden's possible approach to China and how the rest of the world may react to the world's second-largest economic superpower.
A fantasy island to replace a real one
As shorelines are washed away and coral reefs disappear, Fiji s developers have begun looking for ways to keep tourist money flowing. One solution is artificial islands. Fantasy Island is the biggest example of reclaiming land from the ocean. By dredging channels and converting underproductive swampland into beachside communities, the project has attracted a series of five-star resorts.
Fiji - island paradise in jeopardy
Artificial paradise
Tourists at the resorts along the Denarau peninsula on Viti Levu may post Instagram photos of the clear waters of the hotel-side lagoons and palm tree-lined white sandy beaches. But it s an artificial paradise and one that damages the island s environment. The beaches were created by dredging channels and extending the sand in areas where mangrove swamps once thrived.