One year after the suicide of Dai Lin and the occupation of the Ministry of Education, the issue of history textbooks in Taiwan has not yet been fully settled ...
After a resounding victory by Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Upper House elections, it would appear that the ground has been cleared for Abe to push for the reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. What next, then, for the student movement opposed to constitutional reinterpretation?...
For future developments in Taiwanese labor, looking at past historical examples of successful strikes in other contexts as the 1934 Teamsters strike in America may be useful...
Though little discussed outside of Japan, Okinawa would currently be in a state of political crisis after the mass deployment of upwards of five hundred and it is rumored as much as one thousand riot police from the more central Japanese islands to the district of Takae in Okinawa, which has only a population of 160...
A hunger strike by workers outside the Legislative Yuan came to an end today after 52 hours. Workers were demonstrating against planned cuts in public holidays...
New Bloom editors Parson Young and Brian Hioe translated the manifesto of currently hunger striking workers from the Worker's Struggle collective of labor unions, who are on hunger strike outside of the Legislative Yuan...
