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2008 DECEMBER 3- DECEMBER 9 JCP Chair Shii holds talks with Prime Minister Aso Raising the urgent issue of temporary and fixed-term contract workers being laid off on short notice before the expiry of their contract term, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said to Prime Minister Aso Taro, “The government should exercise its power to have the large corporations and business federations end these corporate practices immediately.” Reject draft of WTO agriculture agreement Warning that the latest World Trade Organization draft of an agreement on agriculture, if implemented, will have a catastrophic effect on Japanese agriculture, the progressive farmers’ association and a coalition of organizations of farmers, workers, and consumers urged the government to reject it. Urge Obama to fulfill promise to abolish nuclear weapons: Japan Gensuikyo At a national meeting of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), Secretary General Taka Hiroshi said, “Some argue that a change might be brought by the next U.S. administration led by Barack Obama. But our movement should be a driving force to force change. Let us turn the possibility to move toward a nuclear-free world into a reality.” .......................................................................................................................... POLITICS  JCP Chair Shii holds talks with Prime Minister AsoJCP Ichida says Aso Cabinet is at dead end.......................................................................................................................... JOB SECURITY Labor minister promises to investigate Isuzu’s illegal dismissalsContingent workers at Isuzu Motors form a labor unionShii submits to government an urgent plan to defend jobs and SMEsWorkers in rally call for fundamental revision of the Worker Dispatch LawUnion fights against IBM Japan’s 1,000 dismissal planZenroren calls on government to secure jobsCanon fires contingent workers while adding 280 billion yen in surplus funds.......................................................................................................................... LIVING CONDITIONS New Japan Women’s Association has day of action calling for life free of anxietiesDemocratic organizations hold rally in front of the DietLarge number of the elderly will likely lose health insurance under adversely revised system.......................................................................................................................... WTO Reject draft of WTO agriculture agreement.......................................................................................................................... PACIFIC WAR  We must continue to question Japan’s historical mistake: war of aggression: Akahata editorialActivists take to the streets for peace action marking 67th anniversary of Pacific War.......................................................................................................................... U.S. FORCES IN JAPAN U.S. Marines on Okinawa training with Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehiclesU.S. Air Force conducts operation readiness exercise in OkinawaU.S.F.J. makes another helicopter emergency landingYokosuka residents hold action against U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.......................................................................................................................... SDF Residents foil ASDF Tsuiki base expansion planResidents demands that state pay damages for mental suffering caused by SDF shellsTamogami question must be traced back to his appointment: Akahata editorial.......................................................................................................................... ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Japan-proposed U.N. resolution fails to focus on abolition of nuclear weapons: Akahata editorialUrge Obama to fulfill promise to abolish nuclear weapons: Japan Gensuikyo.......................................................................................................................... INTERNATIONAL Shii meets with Singaporean ambassador |
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