This is an announcement of the event to be conducted in Japanese on April 19 in Tokyo: “NFSJ Café #16: Let’s learn about LGBT—toward the society where no one is left behind and sexual diversity is accepted”. If you are interested and need an English info, please contact: japan@notforsalecampaign.org Thank you!
This is an announcement of the event to be conducted in Japanese on March 19 in Tokyo: “Seminar on the Ethical Repot Card of Companies” sponsored by Citizens’ Network to Build a Sustainable Society through Responsible Consumption (SSRC). If you are interested and need an English info, please contact:
japan@notforsalecampaign.org Thank you!
Flyer PDF (Japanese)
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NFSJ Café #15
Screening of “The Price of Free”
Featuring Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi On His Life-Long Mission To End Child Labor and Trafficking
◆Date & Time: Thursday, March 7, 2019
19:00～21:00（Doors open at 18:45）
◆Place: Musashino Place 3rd floor “Space E”
2-3-18, Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo
(1 min. walk from the South Exit of JR Musashi-Sakai Station)
◆Admission: Free (Max.20)
◆Reservation: japan@notforsalecampaign.org
or indicate your will of participation on the Facebook Event Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/296727174359235/
◆Sponsored by: Not For Sale Japan(NFSJ)
Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, a laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 along with Malala Yousafzai, has been rescuing children from child labor. Child labor is not just children working, but often is slavery or human trafficking with confinement, violence and threat, forcing children to work for long hours with almost no pay.
Let us learn by watching the movie how and why Kailash started and continues his activities, as well as the reality of child labor and the people who rescue and rehabilitate the victims.
NFSJ Café, sponsored by the anti-trafficking non-profit Not For Sale Japan is a casual learning opportunity with tea and snacks to hear or watch movies on related issues. Come and join us!
【”The Price of Free” USA/2018/directed by Derek Doneen/1hr.32min./Subtitled in Japanese & English】
NFSJ will invite Dr. Junpei Yamamura as a guest speaker for the seminar “Your Foreign Neighbor May be a Modern-Day Slave”..
Dr. Yamamura works for a clinic in Yokohama while helping out trafficked and/or exploited foreign workers in Japan. We will hear about the immigrants to Japan who have suffered from such hardships and also hear about the new Immigration Control Act and its points of concern.
The seminar will be conducted in Japanese. Sorry, no translation will be provided.
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, 15:20~17:10 (Doors open at 15:10)
Seminar Room 6, 4th floor, JICA Yokohama
Admission Free (but you are required to pay admission for the Yokohama International Forum.)
Please contact for further information: japan@notforsalecampaign.org
NFSJ Café No. 14
“Through a Legal Lens:
The Case of Prajwala, an Anti-Trafficking Organization in India”
◆Speaker: Saloni Lakhia
◆Date & Time: Friday, December 21, 2018
19:00～20:30（Doors open:18:45）
◆Place：Musashino Place 3rd Floor “Space E”
2-3-18, Kyonancho, Musashino, Tokyo
(1 min. walk from JR Musashi-sakai station)
http://www.musashino.or.jp/var/rev0/0001/0776/musashino_place_e.pdf.pdf
◆Presentation Background:
India’s journey against all forms of exploitation including Human Trafficking has been long arduous but substantial. Right from creating powerful laws to building social institutions and empowering the culture – India has had its successes and failure.
It took a dedicated and committed woman like Sunitha Krishnan who herself is a sexual assault survivor, to dwell into the deeper and finer aspects of the implementation of the law, policies, schemes, and procedures and show a mirror to the society.
Come learn how one woman fought a rigid system through her organization Prajwala to create enabling procedures through legal activism. We shall discuss the organization’s work and use their court case as an example to understand how they created a ripple effect of change across the Nation.
◆Admission: Free
◆Reservation: E-mail: japan@notforsalecampaign.org
or Check “Going” on the Facebook Event Page
◆The event will be conducted in English.
◆Sponsored by: Not For Sale Japan
◆About the speaker:
Saloni Lakhia is a Rotary Peace Fellow and an MA candidate in Public Policy and Social Research at the International Christian University, Tokyo. She holds a Bachelor’s in Law from Government Law College, India.
She has worked with many nonprofit and state government institutions in India helping create gender-specific policies and legal reforms as well as written socio-legal handbooks focusing on crimes against women and children. Primarily, her work has been focused on securing protection and rehabilitation for survivors of human trafficking, sexual assault and domestic violence in Maharashtra.
When not working, she spends her time as a freelance literary and content editor, with published books from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House India.
(NFSJ Cafe is a casual learning opportunity on a topic related to human trafficking with a guest speaker. Coffee, tea, and snack will be served.)
◆Event Flyer Download 20181221 NFSJ Cafe No.14 Flyer (E)
The fine documentary “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls” will be screened at the International Girls Day Event sponsored by Katsushika ward on Saturday, October 20, 14:00-16:30.
This film depicts the reality of sex trafficking around the world and NFSJ has shown it 37 times during the 4 years 2013-2016. It’s a very rare opportunity now to see it on screen, so don’t miss it!
(The lecture by Mariko Yamaoka will be given in Japanese. The film is in English with Japanese subtitles.)
【About the movie】https://nefarious.jimdo.com/about-the-movie/about-the-movie-in-english/
Saturday, October 20, 14:00-16:30
Katsushika-ku Women’s Pal (Gender Equality Center)
RSVP by October 11
【For detail (Japanese)】
http://www.city.katsushika.lg.jp/event/1000108/1018795.html
Please contact NFSJ if you need assistance for reservation:
japan@notforsalecampaign.org
Download the flyer PDF
⇒http://www.city.katsushika.lg.jp/_res/projects/default_project/_page_/001/018/795/girlsdaytirasiomote.pdf
(Illustration: Nanami Minami)
NFSJ is an active member of SSRC, the Citizens’ Network to Build a Sustainable Society through Responsible Consumption. This is a network of 39 nonprofit organizations that deal with various social issues.
One of its main projects is to produce “Ethical Report Card of Companies” where we review each companies according to how “ethical” they are in their own corporate behavior in terms of human rights, workers’ rights, environment, animal welfare, etc. In 2016 and 2017, we have already graded 22 companies in 5 major industries: food manufacturing, apparel, cosmetics, convenience stores, and package delivery.
(Illustration: Nanami Minami)
SSRC is now calling for donation from general public to support its project in 2018 via a crowd funding scheme called Readyfor.
https://readyfor.jp/projects/ethicaltsushinbo
This fundraising is “all or nothing” scheme, that means, we need to achieve our goal of 1,850,000 yen in 42 days (through November 12), otherwise, we cannot gain even 1 yen. So, will you visit the site and share it through social media and other means?
It’s a pity that we only have Japanese page but if you are willing to donate, please contact us: japan@notforsalecampaign.org or please see the following instruction that were translated into English for another project that also used the Readyfor platform. It’s not exactly the same as ours, but it would surely help you understand how the system works: https://readyfor.jp/projects/tokyo-friends2018/announcements/76349
(Please scroll down to find the section “Payment Instruction (English).”)
Thank you for your cooperation!
NFSJ Café No. 13
“A Glimpse into Korea’s Domestic and International Human Trafficking Issues”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1097134853777555/
The event will be conducted in English.
Sponsored by: Not For Sale Japan
(Photo:© travel oriented The view from Haengjusanseong)
Download the flyer⇒20181012 NFSJ Cafe No.13 Flyer (E)
Walk Free Foundation, an Australian NGO, issues Global Slavery Index, the comprehensive research report on the modern slavery. The 2018 report included for the first time a detailed report on Japan.
NFSJ contributed for the report by giving advice and information. We also translated the part on Japan so that people in Japan would be able to read the contend of the report.
What is the connection? At my church (Tokyo Baptist Church) about 9 years ago I heard a woman missionary speak and show her photos of women and girls around the world who were forced to be prostitutes and heard the term “Human Trafficking” for the first time. Until then, I’d thought most prostitutes were immoral women in it for the money. But in fact, many are coerced.
So a few of us started meeting after church monthly to pray about the situation and see what God would have us to do. He led us to start a new ministry in early 2012, of which I became the leader. It’s called “Salt & Light” according to Jesus’ words in Matthew that His followers should be these things in society, to influence it for good and God, drawing people to Himself.
By then I’d read David Batstone’s book “Not For Sale” which describes various forms of slavery and heard it occurs even in Japan. I knew the Japan chapter of his NGO had started up and felt God leading me to join as a volunteer to learn more and be a better leader for S&L. I’ve learned and shared so much since then, knowing the first step to stopping the evil of trafficking is making others aware—and at the church we can also do the important work of praying against it, so have weekly prayer times. In our pamphlet we use Psalm 10:14a “But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand.”
Working with the other staff at NFSJ has been a real blessing over the years—they are so compassionate and dedicated. Another thing I like is that it is bilingual, so I can share information to both Japanese and English speakers. One of the ways I’ve been able help at NFSJ is doing native-speaker English check of things that others (mostly director Mariko) have written or translated from Japanese. I think it’s important to get accurate information about the situation in Japan to the world community. With God’s help and your help, we can abolish human trafficking!
