CONTENTS

TEXTBOOK/VIEWS ON JAPAN'S WAR OF AGGRESSION
*JCP chair demands government cancel its approval of history textbook glorifying
aggression
*JCP Dietmember on South Korean reaction to history textbook
*Shii questions new prime minister's views on Japan's war

LEPROSY SUIT
*JCP has played pioneering role in movement for leprosy patients' human rights
*Parliament must fulfill its responsibility: JCP Seko on leprosy suit ruling

KOIZUMI CABINET
*Democratic Party competes with Koizumi for faster 'structural reforms'
*Prime Minister Koizumi has exposed the hawk's nails: Akahata editorial of May 12 on Diet debates
*Analysis of Komei Party's about-turn in support of Koizumi

POLITICS
*JCP Fuwa calls for greater efforts to join forces with wide-range of people to change politics
*JCP tops political parties in number of local law makers
*Divided opinion between opposition parties won't hinder cooperation: JCP

CONSTITUTION
*Tokyo female students listen to Mrs. Gordon
*Shii calls for national unity to defend Article 9 (Speech at Constitution Day Assembly)

ECONOMY
*JCP chair and top business leader meet for the first time to discuss economy
*JCP holds symposiums in Osaka and Kyoto on 'emergency economic proposal'

*Think-tanks' trial calculation on increase in unemployment agree with JCP's

LABOR
*NTT to eliminate 60,000 jobs
*Lawyers in Osaka call for administrative steps for preventing professional drivers' deaths from overwork
*Contingent workers in Zenroren meeting discuss their wage increase

TOKYO
*JCP calls for restoration of social welfare programs and improvement of Tokyo's livability

U.S. FORCES IN JAPAN
*PCB storage found at U.S. Iwakuni base
*U.S. Forces helicopters enforce landing on Okinawa's island ignoring airport regulations
*Yokosuka citizens collect 72,000 signatures against U.S. aircraft carrier homeport

ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
*Solidarity messages to Peace March for nuclear weapons abolition