A few months back, I posted about an article that claimed former female employees of Lehman Brothers were being made to serve tea after their company was taken over by Nomura Holdings. The article implied that women used to the Lehman’s treatment of female employees found the conditions at Nomura to unfair and demeaning.
Now it [...]

The story of a couple in Louisiana that was denied a marriage license because an official disapproved of interracial marriage has been picked up by the Japanese media. Here’s how on Asahi TV news program reported on the story:

NTV, CNN.co.jp, 47 News, the AFP, and MSN/Sankei have also reported on this case.
Over at [...]

A Japanese commercial for Century 21 real estate [submitted Quill]:

I saw this ad on TV this morning and thought you might want to do a post about it. Century 21 proves that if they can sell to foreigners, they can even sell to cats!
The commercial is aimed at a Japanese audience and presents Century [...]

Anger erupted among fans of TV announcer Christel Takigawa last week after Yutaka Hasegawa, host of a Fuji TV cable program, talked about Takigawa being removed from the main line-up of newscasters on “News JAPAN“:
“This girl, uh, she is also by far more skillful than that foreigner (gaijin) who was doing it until [...]

A Japanese TV program visits the island of Tsushima to investigate the frictions between Korean tourists and locals. At one restaurant, they found a sign banning the entry of Korean customers. Here’s a subtitled video clip of them speaking to the restaurant owner:

The owner was fed up with the “bad manners” of [...]

Arudou Debito’s campaign to shame McDonald’s into dropping its “Mr. James” ad campaign by encouraging international attention has hit a stumbling block: Americans who apparently believe that that the emergence of the advertisements is an example of karma.

Over at the Huffington Post, a pair of Asian-American women who call themselves Disgrasian has written a [...]

Japan’s famous three wise monkeys (sanzaru) have become the subject of a racial discrimination accusation in Britain:
The row dates from an incident nearly two years ago, when supporters of the Socialist Party – a Marxist group well to the left of Labour – tried to get Unison’s annual conference to discuss proposals to cut links [...]

How Nomura Holdings treats its female employees (from the Wall Street Journal, via Foreign Policy):
Japanese brokerage firm Nomura Holdings Inc. kicked off a training session for new hires in April by separating the men and women. The women, including Harvard graduates hired by Lehman Brothers before it collapsed, were taught how to wear their hair, [...]

Italian authorities have taken action after a Japanese couple was told to pay an outrageous 700 euros for a seafood lunch at a restaurant in Rome:

The tourists filed a fraud complaint with police after being surprised with a bill for 579.50 euros plus 115.50 euros in tip for downing pasta and lobster with wine and [...]

The above photo shows the injuries sustained by Ryotaro Wright, a Japanese-born New Zealander who was nearly beaten to death by bullies:
The teen, Japanese-born Ryotaro Wright, needed emergency brain surgery in Waikato Hospital after the attack at Forest View High School in Tokoroa this week. Doctors say he was close to death.
Four students have been [...]

Danny Choo reports that the website of Minori, a Japanese company that produces erotic computer games (”eroge”), has blocked foreign access to its website with the following message:

The decision is probably influenced in no small part by the fact that international outrage recently made the Japanese media discover the existence of certain pornographic games, leading [...]

Some screen captures from a YouTube video apparently taken at a counter-protest held in Kyoto on Saturday in response to a march by groups opposed to giving voting rights to non-citizens:

As you can see, the red sun in the middle of the Japanese flag has been replaced with a steaming pile of shit. The [...]