JCP launches election campaign focusing on young people

   The Japanese Communist Party and the JCP young supporters’ association on June 6 started a nationwide “caravan” campaign as part of the effort to increase party activities among young people in preparation for the House of Councilors election in July.

   The Upper House election candidates, students, and young JCP supporters spoke in front of Waseda University, Shinjuku Station, and other spots popular with young citizens in Tokyo to call on passers-by to drastically improve young workers’ working conditions, to defend the war-renouncing Article 9, and to increase support for the JCP.

   On June 4, JCP Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi announced this campaign at a press conference in the Diet building. He said that young people’s employment situation has become a major social issue and that the JCP has repeatedly brought this up in the Diet discussions. “By carrying out this campaign, we hope that the public will recognize young people’s issues are important to the JCP,” he said.

   Two JCP campaign cars that have been colorfully designed and decorated by young JCP supporters will travel through all 47 prefectures. One of them is taking the East-Japan route starting from Tokyo and will travel 3,175 km. The other will travel 2,495 km through the west part of the country from Shizuoka Prefecture.

   Their activities will be reported daily on blogs.

- Akahata, June 6, and 7, 2007