2006 2007 JANUARY 17

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2006 2007 JANUARY 17 - JANUARY 23

JCP announces nationwide simultaneous local election policies
"Adhering to the principle that residents are the protagonists of local politics, the JCP will strive to meet urgent public demands in confrontation with bad policies," states the JCP election platform. [MORE]

Government shelves submitting to Diet bill to establish 'white-collar exemption'
JCP Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi said, "The JCP will make utmost efforts to force the government to completely give up on the submission of the bill to introduce the system." [MORE]

JCP Shii speaks about significance of international communities for peace and Article 9
"Abe's plan to strengthen cooperation with NATO does not match the present situation. Broadly speaking, military alliances in the world on the whole are heading toward dismantlement," said Shii. [MORE]

POLITICS
- DPJ in its convention fails to present basic framework in opposition to LDP: JCP Ichida (January 17, 2007)
- JCP announces nationwide simultaneous local election policies (January 20, 2007)

MILITARY
- U.S. Air Force to deploy F-22s to Okinawa (January 11, 2007)
- Municipalities continue to jointly protest against relocation of U.S. aircraft unit to Iwakuni (January 17, 2007)
- In Yokosuka, request for referendum on deployment of U.S. nuclear-powered carrier submitted (January 18, 2007)
- Shii speaks on TV about significance of international communities for peace and Article 9 (January 18, 2007)
- F-16s flew to Iraq from U.S. Misawa base (January 21, 2007)
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SDF personnel suicide cases attributed to Iraq War -- Akahata editorial, January 23, 2007
- U.S. forces dumped ammunition into reservoir in Okinawa (January 23, 2007)

FINANCE
- JCP calls on Japan Post to cancel plan to remove 738 ATMs (January 19, 2007)
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BOJ must adopt monetary policy of boosting households incomes -- Akahata editorial, January 19, 2007

LABOR
- Government shelves submitting to Diet bill to establish 'white-collar exemption' (January 17, 2007)
- 2007 Spring Struggle launched (January 19, 2007)
- IHI comes to term with 175 workers to end 40-year anti-communist discrimination (January 20, 2007)

FARM
- Farmers' movement resolves to revive farming villages (January 16 & 18, 2007)

HIBAKUSHA
- High court overturns order to pay benefits to South Korean Hibakusha (January 23, 2007)

JCP
- JCP Chair Shii's New Year interview (Part III & final) (January 1, 2007)