Japan is known as a nation of bath lovers through the centuries, but in modern times the practice came to be put to political and ideological ends with the idea of Japanese cleanliness being seen ...

Dalits, Burakumin in Japan, and other populations in similar situations should be explicitly acknowledged as groups of people who have been subject to perennial and persistent forms of ...

UN Women Leads Bold Global Push for Gender Equality at HLPF 2025 in New York UN Women is urging governments and financial institutions to scale up investments in inclusive economic policy, law reform, ...

His efforts helped shift the discourse from a localized struggle to a transnational movement, linking the experiences of Dalits with those of other marginalized groups, such as the Burakumin in Japan.

As the number of inbound tourists to Japan skyrockets while the population shrinks, the country is seeing a revival of right-wing populist parties with extremist positions on immigration controls as a ...

UN Women at the High-Level Political Forum 2025: powering global progress for all women and girls Gender equality takes center stage with a full review of SDG 5, urgent calls to close the $420 billion ...

3 volumes : 29 cm Based on the premise that race and racism are two distinct concepts with separate histories, the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism delves into the origins of these ideas through the ...