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2008 FEBRUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 12

U.S. Marine arrested for raping 14-year-old girl in Okinawa
In Okinawa, U.S. servicemen have repeatedly committed vicious crimes, including a gang-rape of an elementary school girl in 1995. Okinawans bitterly resent the recent crime and strengthen their call for the removal of U.S. bases.

 

JCP Shii in the Diet denounces Canon for using temps as 'disposable workers'
Shii strongly urged the prime minister to fundamentally change the Worker Dispatch Law into a law that protects the rights of temporary workers.

 

Austrian prime minister expresses support for starting negotiations on total ban of nuclear weapons
Japan Gensuikyo received a reply from the Austrian prime minister to the "Letter to Governments from Nagasaki" that called on governments in the world to start negotiations on a treaty totally banning nuclear weapons.

 

DIET

- FY 2007 supplementary budget approved despite Upper House rejection

- JCP Shii in the Diet denounces Canon for using temps as 'disposable workers'

 

MILITARY

- Local residents file lawsuit in a bid to block relocation of U.S. carrier-borne aircraft to Iwakuni base

- Otaru City residents continue to struggle to prevent military use of their port

- Foreign Ministry official walks out of meeting with JCP petitioners after expressing displeasure

- Opponent of U.S. carrier-borne aircraft deployment puts up good fight in Iwakuni mayoral election

- U.S. Marine arrested for raping 14-year-old girl in Okinawa

 

NUCLEAR

- Austrian prime minister expresses support for starting negotiations on total ban of nuclear weapons

- Let's renew determination to step up movement for abolition of nuclear weapons at Bikini Day events - Akahata editorial

 

CONSTITUTION

- Japan's major Buddhist sect launches Article 9 Association

 

HEALTH

- Stop the new 'medical-care system for the elderly' - Akahata editorial

- High blood pressure patients to be excluded from health checkups under new medical-care system for the elderly

 

EDUCATION

- Tokyo ordered to pay 27.6 million yen over 'Kimigayo' suit

 

LABOR

- Union members urge Canon to fulfill its corporate social responsibility

 

FOOD/AGRICULTURE

- Japanese dairy and livestock farmers are in crisis due to skyrocketing feed prices

- JT Foods ignored complaints about Chinese-made frozen food

 

MEDIA

- NHK faces crisis

 

JCP

- Ogata meets with Venezuelan governing party leader

- Shii attends Vietnamese New Year reception

- Ogata meets with Indian parliamentary members

- Ogata meets with Nepalese ambassador


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