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Rethinking Pet Rights: The Evolution of Animal Welfare Laws in Japan

From Property to Sentient Beings – The Journey of Pets in Japanese Law Introduction: I was chatting with my Japanese friend Nao on Instagram, discussing Japan's culture when she dropped a bombshell about a particular law regarding pets. This law categorizes them as property or objects rather than recognizing them as living beings with their own rights. To put it more simply, it's like they've been treating pets as high-end furniture instead of the adorable buddies they truly are! But on a brighter note, Nao assured me not to fear, as a gust of change is sweeping

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United We Stand … Divided We Fall!

As per what I was taught in my school the name of my beloved country “Pakistan” is an acronym for Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Indus and Tan representing Baluchistan. I absolutely thought that the word Pakistan was first coined in a pamphlet famously known as Pakistan Declaration written and published by Chaudhary Rahmat Ali, in which the word Pakstan without the alphabet ‘I’ and was used for the first time and was presented in the Round Table conferences in 1933. But the people of subcontinent were quite familiar with the word Pakistan much before Pakistan Movement because

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Divorce between a Queen and a Pauper

The United Kingdom has ceremoniously served divorce papers on the European Union, gesticulating the beginning of the end of a marriage that has undergone for 44 years. Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, deep-rooted that London had triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, beginning a legal process that must end in two years’ time with the old wife British Empire leaving her sorrowful ex-husband the European Union.   "This is a historic moment for which there can be no turning back. Britain is leaving the European Union," May told the House of Commons in London.