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Japan has the widest gender gap among developed countries, ranking 73rd among 190 economies in a World Bank report released on March 4.

Japanese women enjoy only 72.5 percent of the legal rights and protections that Japanese men do, according to the annual Women, Business and the Law 2024 report published ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.

Japan Today, Lifestyle

4 Japanese laws that desperately need to be amended for women

July 9  04:55 am JST  26 Comments

The Fukushima district court sentenced Shutaro Shibuya, Akito Sekine and Yusuke Kimezawa to two years in prison, suspended for four years, for “forced indecency” against Rina Gonoi during a military drill in 2021

Article should be posting all the abusers/criminals photos with names, not the victim's.

Good for her!!!!!! She deserves every yen & probably 10x more than she received.

Japan is a land of mysogyny and sexual predators. Nothing will change until they are regularly charged, arrested, prosecuted and punished for their abuse and crimes.

I'm happy for her and hope more women in Japan are as brave as her!

Companies and small businesses can't pay the skyrocketing elctric & gas prices.

Everything in general costs 20-40% more than just two to three years ago.

It has nothing to do with a labor shortage.

And the whole the LDP does absolutely nothing to promote or implement renewable energy solutions.

What about the 'father'??????

They still overwork and under pay as a general practice. Wage theft is still rampant in Japan even tho there are laws against most of these practices.

Sento, onsen, gym showeres all hot spots for this nasty stuff.

Yuck!!!

Tourists should boycott the store altogether. Hopefully it goes out of business. ;-)

Doesn't matter if they accept the comment/label or not when the data supports it.

Change the policies.

Lol. I bought a couple solar panels, a small wind turbine and a couple home batteries off Amazon last June.

This simple, basic system has paid for itself in only a year by reducing my monthly electricity/gas costs 20-50% a month since I bought them. Typically I save about 35% every month.

It's not hard or complicated. I don't care what the gov does pushes or advocates, I bought them to save money for MYSELF!!!

I don’t think it’s possible to learn business or academic Japanese from anime any more than one can learn martial arts from a book.

Nobody mentions anything about 'business or academic Japanese'. ??

I tend to think the majority of the students attending these 'certified Japanese schools' are students/immigrants that end up working in convenience stores, restaurants, construction.

This is funny because the majority of people learning Japanese these days learn from anime and YouTube.

Hilarious that the gov wants to make it sooo difficult to learn or even teach Japanese while there is almost ZERO oversight on native Japanese masquerading as English teachers and so called English schools as a whole.

So ironic.

One of many horrible facts of American history. It's incredible that anyone could/would justify this kind system discrimination/racism.

Another ancient tradition that has outlived any usefulness. Good riddance.

Most companies here treat IT workers the same as cleaning staff. No respect or consideration for the work we do, none.

Japan needs to address the work culture and toxic cultural misogyny before it can begin improving the birth rate issue. NO simple fix!!

Japan is not a safe place for women.

Did they raise salaries for clerks/staff to a record high??? Didn't think so.

Japan is not so safe for women.

Question is: where are the backup generators located???? Plant operators were advised the design of the Fukushima plant was outdated and not ideal, but they did nothing to mitigate the design flaws. They did not move the generators even after being advised to do so several years before.

Too many old people shouldn't be driving around the country.

It's too difficult for young people to get licenses but super easy for elderly to keep them.

Most in 80s & 90s have no business driving .

Wow ... JAL seems pretty sketchy!!!! Yikes ;-(

Japan is pretty great for many reasons, tho not a good county for women.

Denny's Japan really sucks. US Denny's is so much better, Im really disappointed everytime I go in one.,. only thing I get there is the Club Sandwich.

Another ancient tradition that has outlived any usefulness. Good riddance.

No surprise at all. People are people and Japanese are the same as anyone else, There are wonderful Japanese and scumbag Japanese.

If the bases were to pull out, how would the Okinawans support themselves?

This just isn't true. Returned land is always developed as soon as it returned and the economy grows improves in those areas.

IMO Okinawa should be designated a unaccompanied duty station with no spouses or dependas allowed. That would be a great start to reducing the impact on Okinawans.

Any man that abuses/assaults a woman, child, or senior is scum. Doesn't matter where he's from, what language he speaks or god he worships.