Ban on women stepping onto sumo ring should end

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which Japan ratified, requires States Parties to take all appropriate measures to modify or abolish “customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women.”

In response to global campaign to end violence against women, Tokyo women take action outside Israeli Embassy

On November 25, the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, progressive women in Tokyo demanded an immediate end to the war and genocide in Gaza, as these are the ultimate forms of violence in international law.

JCP Motomura calls for anti-prostitution law to be revised to punish purchase of sex

Japanese Communist Party lawmaker Motomura Nobuko, at a House of Representatives Judicial Affairs Committee meeting, demanded that the Prostitution Prohibition Law be revised to punish those who purchase sex.