From: Ten Thousand Things Supporting the culture of positive peace: inner & outer peace, sustainability, diversity, social justice, and affirmative creative expression--in the Asia-Pacific (and everywhere)Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The organizing committee for the Yayori Awards is pleased to announce that nomination forms are now available for the 2010 … [Read more...] about Yayori Awards seek to honor activists, artists, journalists working on women’s issues worldwide
class issues and homelessness
MOYAI (Hakken Mura and homeless support)/もやいから
クリック募金 もやいは組織の性格上寄付 による運営でしか存続できません。 皆さんの暖かい募金で多くの 困窮者をサポートしていけます。 もやいの活動に興味をもたれたかた ぜひ募金をお願いいたします。 新着情報 3/28「いのちのフォーラム」第2回 in 清澄庭園 (2010-3-16) 3/28シンポジウム「検証！公設派遣村」 (2010-3-16) 「いよいよ春到来」 (2010-3-15) 家賃滞納データベースに反対する日弁連会長声明 (2010-3-11) 3/20 反貧困フェスタ2010 in みやぎ―立てなおそう 取り戻そう ひとりじゃない (2010-3-9) 「ちょっと遅い桃の節句」 (2010-3-8) 内閣府参与辞職にともなう経緯説明と意見表明、今後 (2010-3-5) … [Read more...] about MOYAI (Hakken Mura and homeless support)/もやいから
The Making of Japan’s New Working Class: “Freeters” and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market
日本の新しい労働者階級の形成−−フリーターおよび中学から労働市場への参入From Japan Focus David H. Slater This article is a modified and developed version of a chapter from Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Socialization and Strategies, edited by Ishida Hiroshi and David H. Slater, Routledge 2009. For a brief outline of the book's arguments, please see Note 1A at the end of the article. Introduction: … [Read more...] about The Making of Japan’s New Working Class: “Freeters” and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market
Commercial Appetite and Human Need: The Accidental and Fated Revival of Kobayashi Takiji’s Cannery Ship
Norma Field Japan's best-known proletarian novel, Kani Kosen (depicting conditions aboard a crab-canning factory ship operating off Soviet waters)[2] [1] by Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), enjoyed an utterly unanticipated revival in the course of 2008. Many attribute the revival of the novel to the deepening impoverishment of the ranks of the irregularly employed, now … [Read more...] about Commercial Appetite and Human Need: The Accidental and Fated Revival of Kobayashi Takiji’s Cannery Ship
Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI
Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI〈MOYAI〉assists needy people who are re-starting a new life, aiming to become self-reliant.Being economically poor, and being isolated in human relations --- these are the two common problems the poor and needy, such as home-less people, ex-homeless, recipients of daily life security service, domestic violence victims, disabled people have to face … [Read more...] about Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI