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Japanese Investor’s (JICA) Guidelines Violated in the Mumbai - Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project (MAHSR)

20 August 2018 - by Krishnakant, Rohit Prajapati

The Japanese Government’s investment agency, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Government for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project (MAHSR), popularly (...)
As Japan’s workers are facing increasing economic difficulties, Student Debt is still a major concern in the country

11 April 2018 - by Tsutomu Teramoto

The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from April 6 to April 8, 2018, with participants coming from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, Belgium and France. Around forty (...)
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Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA Call for an Immediate Suspension and Fundamental Review

10 November 2013 - by Attac Japan, Others

Mr. Fumio Kishida, Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Mr. Akihiko Tanaka, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency Japanese civil society statement on ProSAVANA Call for an Immediate Suspension and Fundamental (...)
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Global Noise Demo in Tokyo against IMF and World Bank

15 October 2012 - by Globalnoise

Protesters march with a banner after a rally against the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group in Tokyo October 13, 2012. On Saturday about 300 hundred demonstrators, some waving wads of fake note bills and dressed in grotesque (...)
Japan : Rise of ”Hashism" - From Osaka to the National Political Arena

Starting Point - “Osaka Metropolitan Government” and “Osaka Restoration Association” “Critics of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto sometimes describe his politics as ’Hashism’, referring to a supposed similarity between some of his tactics and those of (...)
NO more Chernobyl, NO Fukushima: NO to nuclear energy worldwide

The tragedy in Japan has aroused worldwide solidarity due to the loss of thousands of human lives and of vast regions and cities caused by the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated major parts of Japanese territory. The (...)
Disaster - earthquake and nuclear explosion

15 March 2011 - by Yoko Akimoto

Sadly, as time passes on, the reality is waking us. We see new figures whenever we switch on TV, which may be, I feel, the same as our friends in Pakistan or Haiti who are still being suffered by natural disaster. Yesterday the governor of (...)
Counter-summit against G8 at Japan and Peoples’ Forum in Africa – No rest for the struggles !

14 July 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Eric De Ruest, Pauline Imbach

Report prepared by Eric De Ruest, Pauline Imbach and Eric Toussaint on the basis of messages from Japan and Mali. For the CADTM international network the beginning of this summer resonates with the counter-summit ! Myriam BOURGY (CADTM – (...)
Japan follows singapore in dealing with foreign activists

9 July 2008 - by Walden Bello

Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese authorities’ heavy (...)
Make use of G8 summit to ask for debt write-off

9 July 2008 - by Koalisi Anti Utang (KAU-Anti Debt Coalition Indonesia)

Jakarta - The Anti Debt Coalition (KAU) has called on the government to capitalize on the summit which will take place near Lake Toya Hokaido, Japan, on July 7-9, 2008 to ask for the writing off of Indonesia’s foreign debt. This had to be (...)