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SLAVERY

Australian Attorney-General Michelle Rowland speaks during a press conference as Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke (center) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese look on in Sydney on April 30.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2026
Australia to toughen modern slavery penalty after U.S. tariff threat
Laws will have a new criminal offense if companies with revenue over $70 million fail to prevent modern slavery, including forced labor and debt bondage, in their supply chains.
A cotton farm worker in the Xinjiang region of China. Trade and human rights experts said U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariff threats would do little to solve widespread issues of abusive employment practices in the global supply chain.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 6, 2026
Trump¡¯s latest tariff salvo no fix for global issue of forced labor
Experts, business groups and some human rights groups say the move could actually make things worse.
A man views a slavery exhibition at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. On March 25, the U.N. General Assembly called the transatlantic slave trade the "gravest crime against humanity," with 123 nations voting in favor, three against and 52 abstaining.
COMMENTARY
Apr 7, 2026
Slavery¡¯s atrocities had many global masters
Most historians date the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the year 1500, when Portuguese traders sailed down the coast of Africa.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025
Trump targets the Smithsonian again, saying it focuses too much on how bad slavery was
Civil rights advocates say Trump is undoing decades of social progress and undermining the acknowledgment of critical phases of American history.
Xuan, a Vietnamese migrant, speaks during an interview in London.
WORLD
Feb 13, 2025
¡®Trapped¡¯: Vietnamese slavery victim¡¯s ordeal on U.K. dope farm
Vietnamese migrants are among the most exposed to modern slavery, with more than 1,000 presumed victims reported to British authorities in 2023.
A suspected victim of modern slavery who was initially denied state support after Britain introduced a tougher immigration policy, in London on Sept. 19
WORLD / Politics
Feb 11, 2025
U.K.¡¯s tougher immigration policy risks trapping victims in modern slavery
The protections created under Britain¡¯s Modern Slavery Act have been eroded by rules introduced in 2023 to curb illegal migration.
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 9, 2024
Authorities probing bigoted text messages that spread alarm across U.S.
The messages urged recipients to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past enslavement of Black people in the U.S.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a closing executive session during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Apia, Samoa, on Saturday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 27, 2024
Commonwealth agrees ¡®time has come¡¯ for talks on legacy of slavery
African, Caribbean and Pacific nations want Britain and other colonial powers to atone for slavery and other ills of colonization.
The North Korean flag flutters at the North Korea consular office in Dandong, China, on April 20, 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 17, 2024
¡®Shocking¡¯: U.N. report details North Korea¡¯s widespread forced labor
In a damning report, the U.N. rights office detailed how people in North Korea have been ¡°controlled and exploited.¡±
What often goes overlooked are the contributions made by Black Americans in the founding of the United States.
COMMENTARY
Jun 20, 2024
The United States has forgotten its founders included Black men and women
What often goes overlooked are contributions made by Black Americans in the founding of the United States.
Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," visited Japan last month shortly after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden.
COMMUNITY / Voices / Black Eye
Jun 14, 2024
U.S. civil rights icon Opal Lee brings her Juneteenth walk to Tokyo
Juneteenth, held on the 19th of the month, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Opal Lee sees it as more than an American holiday.
A protester demands the United Kingdom make reparations for slavery, outside the British High Commission, in Kingston, Jamaica, in March 2022.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Apr 13, 2024
Slavery tribunal? Africa and Caribbean unite on reparations
A tribunal was proposed last year, and it has now gained traction within a broader slavery reparations movement.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 10, 2023
A top U.K. newspaper explores its ties to slavery ¡ª and Britain¡¯s
The Guardian¡¯s ¡®Cotton Capital¡± series provoked glee among the paper¡¯s ideological opponents, and had its share of critics too.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 24, 2023
¡®Modern slavery¡¯ worsening and most common in North Korea, study reports
Of some estimated 50 million people ¡®living in situations of modern slavery¡¯ in 2021, around 28 million people were in forced labor and 22 million were living in a forced marriage.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2022
Is fishing ¡ª one of the world¡¯s deadliest professions ¡ª also among the most violent?
The number of violent killings ¡ª and deaths at sea in general ¡ª in the fishing industry remains extremely hard to assess, but it is high.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 13, 2022
50 million people stuck in ¡®modern slavery,¡¯ U.N. says
The number of people caught up in forced labor or forced marriage ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 5, 2022
Behind Brazil¡¯s ¡®green¡¯ charcoal industry, illegal deforestation and workers¡¯ misery
This year, 66 workers were found in slavery-like conditions at just one site, according to the head of the Brazil¡¯s anti-slavery authority.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2021
Thai prisoners forced to make fishing nets under threat of violence
Jails around the country are using inmates to fulfill high-value contracts with Thai manufacturers, including one that exports nets to the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2021
London¡¯s financial district, steeped in slavery, confronts its past
Lloyd¡¯s and the Bank of England have each hired a historian to delve into their roles in the slave trade and are planning on publicizing the results in the next year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 18, 2021
Biden signs ¡®Juneteenth¡¯ bill and asks U.S. to reflect on slavery¡¯s ¡®terrible toll¡¯
The bill marks the day in 1865 when a Union general informed a group of enslaved people in Texas that they had been made free two years earlier.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
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Low-income families in Japan cut food and air conditioning during summer break
Yumiko Watanabe, the chairperson of nonprofit Kidsdoor, explains the results of a survey in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 1.
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The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
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Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

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