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2005 DECEMBER 28 - 2006 JANUARY 7 NEWS

LET US STEP UP A GEAR TO ADVANCE STRONGLY: JCP CHAIR SHII
In his speech at the Japanese Communist Party New Year Assembly, JCP Chair Shii Kazuo called for a major effort to achieve a full-scale JCP advance building on the achievement the party made in 2005.

U.S. SOLDIERS' CRIMES INFURIATE THE PUBLIC
A U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk sailor has admitted to killing a 56-year-old Japanese woman in Yokosuka early on the morning of January 3, two weeks after another U.S. Navy sailor committed a hit-and-run crime. [more]

DISCRIMINATION BASED ON IDEOLOGY IS NO LONGER ACCEPTED
Ideological discrimination against workers has been used to exclude JCP members who were at the forefront of the struggle to achieve workers' demands at large corporations. [more]

U.S. FORCES
* A U.S. sailor in hit-and-run released by SOFA (December 29-30, 2005)

U.S. sailor in hit-and-run freed unjustifiably -- Akahata editorial, December 30, 2005
* U.S. Kitty Hawk sailor kills Japanese woman in Yokosuka (January 6, 2005)
* 7,000 U.S. military personnel arrested in Japan since 1973 (January 6, 2005)

Price of U.S. military crimes -- Akahata 'Current' column, January 7, 2006
* U.S. military police spy on anti-base rally participants in Okinawa (January 4, 2006)

YASUKUNI SHRINE

Prime minister from the outset is unwilling to understand -- Akahata editorial, January 6, 2006

LABOR
* Union workers make a start for 2006 Spring Struggle (January 7, 2006)
* Nippon Steel promises to stop discriminating against JCP members (December 27, 2005)
* My dream came true --A worker wins lawsuit over discrimination against JCP members (December 27, 2005)
* Discrimination based on ideology is no longer accepted in the 21st century (December 27, 2005)
* Prohibition of 'indirect discrimination stipulated in a government panel report (December 28, 2005)

DISASTERS
* JCP makes on-spot investigation into train derailment (December 28, 2005)
* Record heavy snowfall affects local municipalities in the north (January 7, 2006)

ANTI-NUCLEAR CAMPAIGN
* Hiroshima Mayor Akiba supports Gensuikyo's new anti-nuclear campaign (January 1, 2006)
* New anti-nuclear signature campaign starts (January 6, 7, 2006)

ELECTION
* Voter disparity widens between constituencies (December 28, 2005)

JCP
* Year of the JCP Congress: Let us step up a gear to advance strongly (January 5, 2006)
* JCP leaders congratulate Bolivian president-elect (January 5, 2006)