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...says Steve Chao, senior Asia correspondent for Al Jazeera. As tensions build, Japanese citizens...
Though leaders in North and South Korea have begun historic talks to discuss denuclearisation, the danger of nuclear warfare has become Japan’s greatest security threat since WW2.
In 2015, Taiki Masuda found his career under threat when Osaka police initiated a crackdown on tattoo artists. Now he’s fighting the government in court to defend his livelihood.
After the Second World War, the Japanese government actively sought to cull its disabled population through a program of forced sterilisation. Disabilities have remained greatly stigmatised ever since.
As the coronavirus pandemic plunged the world into lockdown, for many in Japan the social isolation that was imposed was nothing out of the ordinary. Why have so many in Japan become socially withdrawn - even before the pandemic?
Following a change in Japan's custody laws, many expected parental abductions to decrease. Systemic issues have proven harder to shake and this doc looks at personal experiences of this flawed system that continue today.
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