CONTENTS

CONSTITUTION
*JCP statement on Constitution Day
*5,000 attend Constitution Day assembly in Tokyo to defend Article 9

POLITICS

Koizumi elected LDP president
*Election of Koizumi adds a historic episode to LDP's decline
*Advocates of adverse revision to Constitution form top LDP leadership
*Koizumi advocates right of collective self-defense for Japan

Koizumi Cabinet starts
*New cabinet under P.M. Koizumi inaugurated
*Popularity can't hide dangerous character of Koizumi Cabinet
*New prime minister apparently calls for constitutional amendments
*JCP chair comments on new Prime Minister Koizumi's political line
*Koizumi Cabinet gearing up toward establishing right to collective self-defense

Koizumi's promise of 'reform'
*Crushing the weak is no "reform"
*Shii: Prime Minister Koizumi's "reform" will make people suffer more and wreck economy

TEXTBOOK QUESTION
*Textbook in question has 51 errors of descriptions

U.S. SUBMARINE COLLISION
*U.S. submarine collision -- Who is responsible?

PEACE MOVEMENT
*Peace marches start
*Peace Caravan from Okinawa concludes nationwide march
*World Children's Peace Statue unveiled

PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE
*Japanese Communist Party's May Day slogans
*Workers in 72nd May Day celebrations call for political change
*Nestle sacks union activists
*Sega employees sue the company for inhumane treatment of workers
*National organization of small businesses for democracy hold national conference

YOUTH
*Don't give up, come and join us to change Japan!

INTERNATIONAL
*JCP sends message to 6th Congress of Mexico's Party of Democratic Revolution