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Here we post information about our organization and other Japanese abolitionist organizations, English translations of their materials, and English translations of Japanese newspaper articles.

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★2025

• Caroline Norma, “‘I cannot bear it’: A Pioneering Collection of Testimonies from Japanese Prostitution Survivors” (1 September 2025)

• Seiya Morita, “Review of Bomnal’s Book: Once You Cross a Street, You’re on the Edge of a Cliff” (26 July 2025)

• Hiroshi Nakasatomi, “What the Asahi Shimbun Failed to Realize: That the Sex Industry Undermines Women’s Dignity” (10 July 2025)

• Sawa Hiiragi, “Birth Names and Blue Easter Eggs” (4 April 2025)

• Caroline Norma, “Groomed by Western Patriarchy: Book review of Christina O’Connor’s Groomed by a Gang” (11 February 2025)

• Caroline Norma, “Young women at the mercy of debt, romance, and Japan’s sex industry” (24 January 2025)

★2024

• National Alliance for the Abolition of Licensed Prostitution “Appeal to the People: For the Total Abolition of Licensed Prostitution” (November 1923)

• Caroline Norma, “Talking ironically about tricky topics: Robert Jensen’s latest book” (21 July 2024)

• Sawa Hiiragi, “Common Scenarios, Common Men” (24 June 2024)

• Caroline Norma, “‘It’s ok for women to kill men!’: A radical feminist Japanese theatre musical” (11 May 2024)

• Sawa Hiiragi, “Ordinary Men Buy Women” (6 January 2024)

★2023

• Caroline Norma, ‘Toward a “Feminism of Female Body Parts”: Against MacKinnon’s sacrificing of prostituted women to transgenderism’ (12 August 2023)

• Caroline Norma, ‘A forgotten record of Japanese comfort women: Ajisaka Miwako’s memoir’ (23 March 2023)

• We withdraw our article about the Kusatsu incident and apologise to the mayor of Kusatsu Town (3 March 2023)

• Update on Australian sex trafficking: Recent media investigation shows aboveground slavery (19 January 2023)

• Natsuki Kato, ‘My Journey into international sisterhood: Cultural exchange report of FiLiA 2022’ (8 January 2023)

★2022

• Ali Morris, ‘Prostitution is violence against women: FiLiA talk in Japan’ (23 November 2022)

• Park Hyejung, ‘Korean women’s resistance against beauty practices’ (11 September 2022)

• Liberal Feminism chose porn over me: Review of Melinda Tankard Reist’s ‘Women Harmed By Men Who Use Porn’ (7 September 2022)

• Uncovering misogyny lurking in beauty: Reading Sheila Jeffreys’ “Beauty and Misogyny” (10 August 2022)

• Book Review: The light of practice and inquiry that illuminates the black hole of prostitution in South Korea (16 July 2022)

• Sexual victimization and destitution led her to pornography: “I turned a painful experience into money” (22 June 2022)

• Will the new law really help women who sign up to pornography filming contracts just to survive? (13 June 2022)

• Caroline Norma, ‘Will sex contracts be legalised in Japan?： The danger of a new law to regulate the porn video industry’ (11 May 2022)

• Rallying global support for Japanese feminists through their testimonies (13 April 2022)

★2021

• Japan’s Sugar Daddy market in the Coronavirus pandemic (26 November 2021)

• Seiya Morita, ‘The Sovereignty Principle of the Japanese Constitution and the “Comfort Women” Issue: On the Ruling of the Seoul Central District Court on January 8, 2021’ (21 September 2021)

• Yoshiko Hayashi, ‘Justifying sexual violence and purge against female politicians: the plebiscite in Gunma prefecture’s town of Kusatsu’ (27 August 2021)

• Caroline Norma, ‘The Geisha-effect: Western Capitalisation on Japanese Commercial Sexual Exploitation’ (23 May 2021)

• Seiya Morita, Introduction to Marxism, Feminism, and Sex Work (23 April 2021)

★2020

• Caroline Norma, ‘Japan’s sex industry in the year of Corona, 2020’ (21 November 2020)

• Caroline Norma, ‘Australia and South Korea: a country promoting sex exploitation and a country combating it’ (8 August 2020)

• Women’s Union (Frauen Union) of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) demands introducing the Nordic Model to Germany! (15 July 2020)

• How did 750 girls come to have their indecent videos online? (26 June 2020)

• In Defense of J.K. Rowling (14 June 2020)

• Japan’s public transport sex pest problem and feminist action in the 1990s: Japanese feminist action in the 1990s (23 April 2020)

• An appeal of Japanese abolitionists (6 April 2020)