1.4 million temps at large companies earn less than 2 million yen in annual income

National Tax Agency data show that out of workers employed by corporations with a capital of more than one billion yen, those who earned only up to two million yen a year increased by 20% to 1.4 million in 2015 from the figure in 2012.

Military-academia cooperation under Abe government is researcher-version of economic conscription

Nagoya University Professor Emeritus Ikeuchi Satoru criticized the Abe government’s move to increase military-academia cooperation as a form of economic conscription of researchers.

Top 10 defense companies donate 126 million yen to LDP

The top 10 munitions companies in Japan which receive large contracts from the Defense Ministry contributed about 126 million yen to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in 2015.