Mirai no Mori Gakuen’s Human Rights Violations

  On July 10th, the Japanese Immigration Services Agency imposed a sanction on the Sendai language school, “Mirai no Mori Gakuen”, preventing them from taking in foreign students for the next five years. This is due to accusations of ill treatment of international students. The school had allegedly made some students sign contracts that would …

The arrest of Ennosuke Ichikawa

Ennosuke Ichikawa, a renowned actor in Japan’s classical kabuki theater, has been taken into custody by police on suspicion of aiding his mother’s suicide. Last month, when emergency responders arrived at his residence in Tokyo, they found his 76-year-old father and 75-year-old mother unconscious. Both were later pronounced dead due to what is believed to …