Japan Today

In this week's news from Japan Today: a freelance Japanese journalist is freed from three years in captivity in Syria; women not accepted to Tokyo Medical University due to their sex are now seeking redress; the U.S. State Department says Japan is still non-compliant with the Hague Convention on international child abductions; a 15-year-old was arrested for killing his grandfather, attempting to kill his grandmother and plotting to kill a student from his school plus Halloween in Japan — it’s not celebrated like it is in the West. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Blogs of War — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Journalist-freed-from-Syria-returns-to-Japan-to-relief-and-criticism Discrimination Compensation — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Women-demand-Tokyo-Medical-University-compensate-them-over-entry-test-rigging Custody Battles — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Foreign-divorced-pa