About Hanako Tokita
Volunteer author for Global Voices and site manager of GV Linuga Japanese. I am a Japanese-English translator based in Tokyo, also involved in some community work and media projects among various other things. I am one of the organisers of gyaku.jp, a bilingual Japanese/English media project based in Japan.
グローバル・ボイス(Global Voices)のボランティアライターおよびLingua日本語のサイトエディター。東京在住。
記事の中の引用や翻訳が問題がある場合は、お知らせください。場合によっては、引用部の削除を検討いたします。 メール： japanese AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
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Stories
November 20th, 2008
East Asia
A small independent café, Berg, is facing possible eviction from a shopping complex in Shinjuku, adjacent to the world's busiest train station. The building owner wants the 50-square-metre café out because the café owner has refused to sign a new contract that allows the company to evict its tenant after a certain period of time. Customers who frequent the café responded and set up the blog site LOVE! BERG!. Within six months, the site collected 10,000 signatures from people who support the café. However, the company ignored the petition and sent an eviction note in September asking the café to move out by March next year. Petition form here.
September 18th, 2008
Japan: The End of OhmyNews Japan
August 12th, 2008
Japan: Ainu recognized as indigenous people
On June 6, a couple of months prior to the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, the Japanese Diet passed a resolution to officially recognize the Ainu as an indigenous people. Immediately following the passage of the resolution, a government panel held its first meeting to start working on ...
July 23rd, 2008
East Asia , Western Europe
LGBT Youth Exchange [jp] is a joint project by the Center for Gender Studies at International Christian University in Tokyo and Youth and Play Services of the city council of Bristol to bring LGBT youth from England and Japan together. This year, young people from Bristol are invited to come to Japan, and the group is asking for people to donate by purchasing a rainbow coloured bracelet to cover costs.
July 9th, 2008
Japan: Bloggers on food crisis feast, G8 over Skype?
The G8 Summit at Toyako, Hokkaido, ended on June 9th after three days of meetings, leaving a bitter aftertaste for some bloggers in Japan. Many questioned the high cost of the event, pointing out how environmentally unfriendly it was, and one even proposed that the meeting could be better carried out over Skype.
June 17th, 2008
Japan: Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake
On June 14, an inland earthquake reaching M7.2 on the Richter scale struck the Tohoku region of Japan. In Iwate and Miyagi, the hardest hit prefectures, 10 have been confirmed dead, about a dozen are missing, and more than 200 people have been injured.
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