2010 MAY 12 - MAY 18

Japan Press Weekly

Japan Press Service Co., Ltd. is the only news agency providing information of progressive, democratic movements in Japan

2010 MAY 19 - MAY 25

PM announces keeping Futenma in Okinawa
Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio officially announced Okinawa’s Henoko district as a site to shift the U.S. Futenma base to at a meeting with Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu. While pledging to move the Futenma base out of Okinawa in the House of Representatives election last summer, Hatoyama ended up returning to the decision made by the former government led by the Liberal Democratic and Komei parties. His announcement provoked fierce protests both inside and outside Okinawa.

Shii reports on his visit to the U.S.
Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo reported that in his eight-day visit to the U.S., the JCP delegation he led succeeded in conveying to the international society Japanese citizens’ call for a world without nuclear weapons, and reiterating to the U.S. government that people in Okinawa as well as other parts of Japan demand a base-free Okinawa and a Japan-U.S. relationship based on an equal footing and friendship.

NTT workers, ‘Rengo-affiliate union didn’t speak for us’
“The union didn’t protect us at all.” “Is this really a workers’ union?” Former contract workers of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation Hokkaido Branch (NTT East - Hokkaido) are raising this question concerning the NTT Trade Union’s function.