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Fashion Show in Japan Takes on Violence Against Women

Categories: East Asia, Japan, Arts & Culture, Politics, Women & Gender, Youth
Image from last year's fashion show. The two models look like [1]

Image from last year's fashion show. The couple looks happy in their relationship on surface ,but the woman's hand is chained to the man's. In his left hand, he has a toy gun. Photo publicly shared on AWA's Facebook page.

The Asian Women’s Association [2], a non-profit women's right organization, is holding a fashion show [3] [ja] on December 1, 2013 under the title “Fashion Resistance to Militarism” to call attention to the issue of violence against women. The full show from last year can be viewed here [4].