'WHAT IS THE IRAQ WAR FOR?' REMAINS THE QUESTION
Does the Koizumi Cabinet keep on uncritically following Bush's arguments and support the U.S. preemptive attack strategy? Does it continue dispatching the SDF to Iraq under U.S. occupation?
NEW U.S. BASE CONSTRUCTION PLAN MUST BE COMPLETELY WITHDRAWN
It is reported that the United States told Japan that the planned return of the U.S. Futenma Air Station site in Okinawa Prefecture might be without the construction of a substitute as the condition of return.
PENSION REFORM BILL INFRINGES ON RIGHT TO LIVE JCP Chair Shii Kazuo demanded that the government pension 'reform' bill be withdrawn, stating that the planned cutbacks on small national payments amounts to a violation of the constitutional right to live.