by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
In August 2008, the prime minister of Japan broke with tradition by refusing to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which honours two-and-a-half million Japanese war dead. Some of those commemorated had been found guilty of war crimes during the Second World War....
by Sean Reilly | Jul 7, 2008
Spiralling food and oil prices dominated the first day of the G8 summit in Japan. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, arrived at the summit calling for the launch of a ‘global action plan’ to tackle rising food prices. On the eve of the summit, George Bush and the...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 29, 2008
A Christian activist who is campaigning against his country’s involvement in Iraq has welcomed a statement by a Japanese court that the operations there of his Japan’s military personnel violate the country’s constitution – writes Hisashi...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 8, 2008
The Japanese government and Christians should support the rights of the Ainu indigenous people in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, the Rev Tadao Miura, the director of the Ainu People Information Centre of the United Church of Christ in Japan, has said...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 24, 2007
Japanese Christian groups are noticing increasing poverty among young adults in a country that once had an image that its companies provide lifetime employment and that it is a country that has a strong middle class base – writes Hisashi Yukimoto. “If one...
