2002 DEC 18 - DEC 24 JPS NEWS
Next update will be January 10.
World must not come under U.S. military control -- Akahata editorial, December 22 (December 23)
* Panel calls for SDF to take more active role in PKO (December 19)
* Anti-new U.S. base struggle goes on in Nago (December 24)
Japan must not support illegitimate U.S. war -- Akahata editorial, December 18
* JCP demands budget be redrafted to reduce people's hardships (December 21)
* Business giants refuse to listen to workers (December 18)
Corporate greed is responsible for the worsening economy -- Akahata editorial, December 19 (excerpts)
* Union membership is all-time low in Japan (December 20)
* Large corporations increase internal reserves with personnel cuts (December 21)
* Talks with Indian House Speaker Joshi (December 18)
* Talks with India's defense minister (December 19)
* Meeting with India's foreign ministry official (December 19)
* Discussion with West Bengal's chief minister (December 20)
* JCP-CPIM leaders discuss international effort to block war on Iraq (December 20)
* JCP chair meets with CPI national secretary (December 20)
* Shii and Sri Lankan prime minister agree on nonaligned movement, Iraq issue, nuclear weapons abolition (December 23)
* Meeting with opposition leader (December 23)
* Talks with Communist Party of Sri Lanka leader (December 24)
* JCP message to CPSL 17th Congress (December 23)
* JCP policy commission chair reviews 2002 (December 18)
* 250 billion yen in tax money to all parties except for the JCP (December 23)
* All JCP candidates elected to city assembly in Tokyo (December 24)
* Government accepts court ruling that aid law be applied to Hibakusha living outside Japan (December 19)
* Former war orphans sue Japan's government (December 21)
* JCP comments on election of South Korea's next president (December 20)