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selling ethical diamonds in Japan

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.07.15

As our intern Koki put it, "It seems that usual Japanese do not really know or care about diamond issues."

Sadly, true. He added, "A[n Amnesty International] survey (PDF) shows that staff in 8 out of 16 diamond jewelry stores have at some point been asked about the ethical issues from their customers, but the other 8 says that they have never been asked questions about the issues."

50% of stores surveyed have never been asked about ethical issues.

rand()m quote

Though defensive violence will always be a sad necessity in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

—St. Augustine