Welcome to Demotix!

News Hub

legal age

52 Stories - 324 Images - 44 Contributors
The annual Coming-of-Age festival (Seijin-no-hi) is celebrated on the second Monday of January. It is held in order to congratulate all those who have reached the age of majority over the past year, and to help them realize that they have now become adults. Urayasu, Japan. 11/01/2010.

The annual Coming-of-Age festival (Seijin-no-hi) is celebrated on the second Monday of January. It is held in order to congratulate all those who have reached the age of majority (20 years old) over the past year, and to help them realize that they have become adults. Twenty is the minimum legal age for voting, drinking, and smoking. Festivities include ceremonies as well as after-parties amongst family and friends. According to the International Affairs and Communications Ministry, around 1.27 million people turned 20 years old in 2009, slipping below 1.3 million for the first time since 1968, when the survey started.

Arts & Entertainment

Coming-of-Age Day in Japan

DMTX. The annual Coming-of-Age festival (Seijin-no-hi) is celebrated on the second Monday of January. It is held in order to congratulate all those...

by nipponnews in Japan on 11/01/2010

Latest News

English author Neil Gaiman speaks on writing to sold-out hall at MIT
Neil Gaiman speaks on the nature of genre to a sold-out audience at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. Neil Gaiman gave the first annual Julius Schwartz Lecture at the Massachusetts Institut...
Justice for the murder of Marta del Castillo - Madrid
The 'Plataforma Marta del Castillo' organized protests in Spain against the sole conviction, out of five accused, for the murder three years ago of Marta de Castillo (aged 17)...
Living through Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge brutal regime in Cambodia
Davy Keo recounts her life and the brutality inflicted on her family by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1970's Cambodia as three of Pol Pot's ageing Khmer Rouge top commanders face ...
Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Great Famine
About 2 thousand people marched in Kiev to the National Memorial of Holodomor victims to commemorate the children who died during the artificial famine in 1932-1933. Kiev, Ukraine. 26th...
OWS Protesters seize New School building in New York City
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement seize a building at 90 Fifth Ave belonging to the New School. Protesters have so far refused entry to press. New York, United States. 17t...
Occupy Wall Street Gains Momentum
Coverage of the Occupy Wall Street's 'March on the Banks', 'Environmental Action Against Mountain Top Removal', and the 'Take Times Square' Convergenc...
Inside Camp Constant and Dale Farm
Activists and concerned locals are arriving at Camp Constant in Dale Farm to support the Travellers who are now facing eviction from the former scrap yard and surrounding wasteland. UK,...
Patriarch Michel Sabbah talks about Christians in the Middle East
A conference with Patriarch Michel Sabbah in Jerusalem organized by the Center for the Sons of the Virgin Mary in regard to the situation of Christians living in the Middle East. Jerusa...
Royal College of Psychiatrists conference met with protest in Brighton
Psychiatric human rights watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights, organised a protest march and demonstration against abuse in the system, and focused on the drugging of children f...
Chronic kidney disease epidemic in Nicaragua - Chichigalpa
Nicaragua currently ranks #4 in worldwide deaths per capita due to chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although scientifically unproven, many of those affected by the disease claim that the w...
Greece on the Edge: A Reportage of Beauty and Turmoil
Thousands of Greeks are taking to the streets, protesting unprecedented austerity measures that are meant to save the country. Some question whether they are defiant or reckless. Athens...
Democracia Real Camp in Madrid
The Camp installed in Plaza del Sol by the Democracia Real Movement is becoming more and more crowded and organized. The intention is to remain despite a ban on protests. Madrid, Spain....
Illegal Gold Mining in Tumpang Pitu
Illegal Gold Mining at Tumpang Pitu, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia. 13/01/2011
Tunisian women demand equality and secularism
Women protest in the streets for gender equality and secularism in their society. Tunis, Tunisia. 29/01/2011
Holloway Protest For Release of Yarl's Wood Three
Around a hundred protesters gathered at Holloway prison and called noisily for the release of the 3 asylum detainees jailed without charge or trial following a hunger strike at Yarl...
Reflections on “Journalism in the age of WikiLeaks” - Madrid
Many people tried to attend the El Pais meeting than the capacity of the CaixaForum. On the panel was the editor of El Pais, Javier Moreno, who all hoped would give the inside story of ...
Anti Corruption Day
A child under age, following a demonstration held by the Legal Aid Institute (LBH), Surabaya, in front of State House Grahadi, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. 09/12/2010
HIV-Aids rally in Surabaya
Hundreds of student activists who are members of the Komunitas Gaul Sehat Dan Syar’i (Kogase), stage a welcome reminder for World Aids Day in Surabaya, Indonesia. 30/11/2010
Fashion Shops Told 'End Cruel Trade in Fur!'
Several hundred people took part in a National Anti-Fur March past upmarket fashion shops on a busy Saturday afternoon in Kensington and Chelsea demanding that they end the cruel trade ...
Just before the countdown is over - Another Protest Day.
A day before the senate is going to vote about the suggested law of the retirement reform, the unions went to another march much smaller this time. Marseilles, France, 19/10/2010