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Fuji Television Network Inc. had the highest ratio of female employees among Japan s commercial broadcasters, but over 70% of commercial broadcasters have no women in executive positions, a survey has found. | BLOOMBERG
Kyodo May 25, 2021
Over 70% of commercial broadcasters in Japan said they had no women in executive positions, a labor union survey showed Monday, highlighting the male-dominated leadership of the mass media industry.
Of the total of 1,797 executives at 127 commercial broadcasters, only 2.2%, or 40, were female, according to the first such survey conducted in the year through March by the Japan Federation of Commercial Broadcast Workers’ Unions, with its umbrella organization calling for increased female representation
Junko Tabei, the woman who defied gravity and gender expectations
This legendary alpinist conquered far more than just mountain peaks. The Tempest
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How do you describe the view from the highest point on Earth?
Standing atop a space smaller than a tatami mat, where the blue sky seemed within reach, the 36th person to reach Mount Everest thought on this. Junko Tabei radioed her all-women climbing group at the base camp, “trying to give justice to the view from the top of the world.”
“Silvery clouds floated around the summits of the giant peaks, emphasizing the dramatic difference between Nepal’s rugged Himalayas and the endless, mildly sloped mountains of Tibet.”
Dancers perform a traditional Ainu dance to mark the opening of the National Ainu Museum and Park. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Nippon Television Network Corp. took the unusual step of using a news program to apologize for another program that on March 12 used a pejorative to refer to the nation’s indigenous Ainu people.
In the program that aired, a comedian used the word “inu,” which means “dog” and was apparently intended as a pun on Ainu, when a documentary about an Ainu woman shown on the Hulu streaming video service was introduced.
According to Jirota Mokottunas Kitahara, an associate professor at Hokkaido University’s Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, dog has been used to belittle the Ainu people since olden days.
Sentai Filmworks Reveals ‘Kaiji’ Anime Series Trailer
Based on the manga by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, which began in 1999 and ran for 48 volumes and inspired some live-action features, Sentai Filmworks has added two seasons of
Kaiji to its back catalog pickup list with it set for an April 20th, 2021 release on Blu-ray. The two series,
Kaiji Ultimate Survivor and
Kaiji Against All Rules previously saw a pickup for streaming by Crunchyroll way back in 2013.
While we’ve been focusing a lot lately on Sentai’s trailers for shows that came out upwards of a decade ago, they’ve got a trailer for this series out now – a month ahead of its debut. Check it out below!