CONTENTS

POLITICS
*Coalition government and P.M. Mori must step down immediately: Akahata on one year of Mori cabinet
*Prime Minister announces resignation
*JCP and LDP discuss on immediate Diet business

ELECTION
*JCP leader stresses need for the party to be on the offensive on all issues

TEXTBOOK
*Block the textbook glorifying war of aggression: Akahata editorial
*History textbook praising war of aggression passes screening

KYOTO PROTOCOL
*JCP Shii criticizes U.S. Bush administration for refusing COP3 Kyoto Protocol
*Japan must take initiative to ratify Kyoto Protocol against global warming

U.S. FORCES
U.S. F-16 crash
*Fishermen in Aomori in boats protest U.S. F-16 fighter crash
U.S. nuclear submarine
*Sasebo citizens are enraged by surprise port call by U.S. nuclear sub
*U.S. nuclear submarine's unannounced entry to Japan's port is a threat to people's safety: Akahata
*Advance notice of nuclear submarine's port visit may be ignored: U.S. Navy spokesman
Okinawa
*Peace Caravan against new U.S. base in Okinawa parades in Osaka
*Drunken U.S. Marine steals a car
*U.S. Marine in Okinawa causes another hit-and-run
*U.S. Forces' mere apology won't remove incidents and crimes by U.S. military personnel - Akahata editorial, April 10, 2001
'Sympathy budget' and more
*Japan's government to fund 16.5 billion yen in FY 2001 to strengthen U.S. bases and military exercises

ECONOMIC POLICY
*JCP Shii pushes P.M. Mori to admit failure of government economic policy
*Irresponsible government's irresponsible economic plan
*JCP holds 2,500 talks on economy

CONSUMPTION TAX
*2,000 wives of merchants and producers rally to call for consumption tax rate cut to 3 percent

LABOR
*Gamemaker Sega again confines insubordinate workers to an empty room without jobs

INTERNATIONAL
*Fuwa visits Vietnam Festival

OBITUARY
*Nonaligned-movement scholar Okakura Koshiro dies at 88