NEW 'NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM OUTLINE' The JCP strongly opposes the new defense program that changes the Self-Defense forces into military forces to be deployed in further violation of the constitutional principles of peace.
CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION IS IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY The proposed outline for constitutional revision called for enhancing the Lower House's superiority over the Upper House, but the real issue here was that it took sides with an idea that would take the country back to the pre-war parliament system.
JCP MAKES REPRESENTATIONS TO PRIME MINISTER ON ABDUCTION TALKS JCP Chair Shii Kazuo presented Prime Minister Koizumi with a statement requesting the government to demand that North Korea delegate an official who can be responsive to the resolution of the abduction issue to the talks with Japan.
