Internet-based activism

two students stand outside the Yasuda auditorium at the University of Tokyo

Japanese student rejects tabloid’s apology for ranking women by ‘easiness’

January 9, 2019Women & Gender

Kazuna Yamamoto is a college student who started an online petition to get a Japanese tabloid magazine to apologize for an article that rated Japan’s universities according to how easy it is for men to get female students to have sex with them. She succeeded and along the way got 40,000+ responses to her online appeal.

In a win for South Korea’s #MeToo movement, government gives more jail time to harassers

March 8, 2018Conflict

Actress Meryl Streep (L) and the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo, at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.

Millions say #MeToo. But not everyone is heard equally.

January 21, 2018Arts

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