The Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office in Japan launched a helpline today, for “people suffering from domestic and sexual violence.” Counselling is provided in several languages, and is available free of charge between 9am and 9pm every day from today until March 27th. It doesn’t matter what your visa status is and you don’t have [...]
Coping with YET ANOTHER cold, with all the meetings I have at the moment I end the day barely able to speak. Kind of ironic as I seem to be inundated with speech requests recently …. Another one came in today, for an event to celebrate International Women’s Day next month. Today’s lunch meeting was [...]
Spent a bit of time packing up some copies of the February issue of Being A Broad today, which just came out and can also be read online in full here: http://www.being-a-broad.org. It’s another great issue this month! I’m so excited about all the great behind-the-scenes work Greg is doing on our rebranding, and can’t [...]
I meet the most unexpected people sometimes in the course of my life in Tokyo! Today I had a lunch meeting with three Japanese people, one of whom was a 76-year-old man ….. who brought The Beatles to Japan. Unbelievable! It seems that British music didn’t reach Japan until The Beatles, and Takashima-san told me [...]
I had a wonderful time at Tokyo Union Church Women’s Society this morning! The day had started out pretty rough for me, with my cold bringing me down and a migraine at 7:30am — I was just praying that I wouldn’t get another one before or during the speech. Usually if I have one before [...]
Tomorrow’s going to be a busy and very interesting day! I’m giving a speech in the morning to the Tokyo Union Church Women’s Society, whose members want to hear all about my adventures in Japan! In about 35 minutes ….. Life changes so quickly for me that every time I do an “adventures” speech, I [...]
I just had a nice chat with Emil from the Australia and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce Independent Business Committee — they want me to give a talk to their members sometime in April. This will be an interesting group for me to speak to — 75% of them are men from Australia or New [...]