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National / Social Issues | GENERATIONAL CHANGE Apr 10, 2019

Japanese group ACE works to end child labor and foster education across developing world

by Eric Johnston

In 1998, a march to protest child labor involving people in 107 countries made Yuka Iwatsuki realize that the issue, which she had been interested in since college, was a global movement. She also realized that there were no organizations in Japan leading the ...

National | GENERATIONAL CHANGE Mar 12, 2019

Entrepreneur's message to Japan's forgotten non-college-educated youth: You can choose your life

by Tomohiro Osaki

It wasn't until he turned 18 that Daisuke Kuse saw businessmen dressed in dapper suits up close and personal. Until then, Kuse — having spent all of his childhood surrounded by working-class families and friends in a small town in Kyoto Prefecture — had ...