Japan’s demographic time bomb: Labour shortage opens doors to foreign workers
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Japan faces an existential threat with its birth rate at an all-time low, yet the island nation has still to fully embrace immigration as a solution to the population decline. To tackle the problem, the government has slowly turned to bringing in foreign workers. We take a closer look.
It’s been two years since Myanmar’s military toppled a democratically elected government and seized power. Since then, around 3,000 people are reported to have been killed in the junta’s bloody crackdown on dissent. Despite years of international sanctions, the military regime has been able to develop its own weapons which are used exclusively against its own people.
A recent report by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar has mapped out arms production within the country, and says companies in more than a dozen countries – including the US, France and Japan – have been providing supplies. Yuka Royer speaks to Yanghee Lee, a former UN special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar and one of the authors of the report.
Finally, tension has escalated at certain universities in India, after student groups tried to circumvent a ban on a BBC documentary. The government invoked emergency laws to block the two-part programme which explores Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, which left more than 1,000 people dead back in 2002.
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