US serviceman arrested for sexual molestation on JAL plane (March 19, 2016)
 Aichi police considers people having private talk to be possible terrorists (March 19, 2016)
 Newly-authorized schoolbooks colored by far-right Abe regime (March 19, 2016)
 JCP Vice Chair Koike protests N-Korea’s missile launch (March 19, 2016)
 Bill to increase financial support for single-parent families jointly submitted by 5 opposition parties (March 18, 2016)
 JCP proposes to halve university tuitions (March 18, 2016)
 Unions protest against corporate response of giving only 1/2 of last year’s base pay hike (March 18, 2016)
 Every US soldier & family member needs their own bathroom: state minister of defense (March 18, 2016)
 Labor minister to JCP Takahashi: subsidy program to help corporate downsizing should be revised (March 17, 2016)
 JCP Okinawa protests US sailor’s rape of Japanese woman (March 17, 2016)
 Court rejects state compensation claims filed by Okinawa Battle victims (March 17, 2016)
 City’s plan to close all public childcare centers provokes fierce backlash from public (March 17, 2016)
 This week’s JCP international activity (March 17 & 18, 2016)
 Signature drives for scrapping war legislation held across Tokyo (March 16, 2016)
 Construction of Osprey maintenance site underway in coastal area of Tokyo Bay (March 16, 2016)
 Preserve Japanese public bathing culture: JCP Tokyo (March 16, 2016)
 PM Abe frantically trying to split opposition parties’ cooperation (March 14&15, 2016)
 Okinawa governor protests against rape by US soldier (March 14&15, 2016)
 Working for Japan free from N-reactors, many rallies held on 5th year of Fukushima disaster (March 13 & 14, 2016)
 Failed ‘Abenomics’ should be canceled[Editorial] (March 13, 2016)
 Build more public facilities and raise care workers’ wages to achieve ‘zero’ waiting list to enter childcare centers (March 13, 2016)
 Ogata speaks on human trafficking in Japan at ICAPP workshop (March 13, 2016)
 JCP Tamura urges gov’t to eradicate teachers’ excessively long working hours without delay (March 12, 2016)
 JCP Miyamoto demands withdrawal of deployment of CV22s to Yokota base (March 12, 2016)
 Taxpayers opposing further consumption tax hike hold nationwide day of action (March 12, 2016)
 Hibakusha demand court injunction against planned restart of Ikata NPP (March 12, 2016)
 Evacuees’ living conditions worsen 5 years after 3/11 disaster (March 11, 2016)
 Tokyoites demand building of facility to remember Tokyo air raids (March 10 & 11, 2016)
 Women’s NGOs urge gov’t to implement recommendation by UN panel on elimination of gender discrimination (March 9 & 11, 2016 )
 Shii releases statement on 5th anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster (March 11, 2016)
 Election cooperation to repeal war laws agreed upon in Shikoku (March 10, 2016)
 Eliminate poverty by raising minimum wages: union workers (March 10, 2016)
 District court issues order stopping operations of Takahama NPP (March 10, 2016)
 Fukushima evacuees request continuation of housing aid (March 10, 2016)
 Abe gov’t puts forth TPP-related bills (March 9, 2016)
 Diet discussion on opposition-proposed bill to raise nursing-care workers’ wages begins (March 9, 2016)
 Participants in International Women’s Day rally resolve to put an end to Abe politics through elections (March 8&9, 2016)
 JCP will back DPJ candidate in Nagano to oppose LDP candidate (March 8, 2016)
 Civil society alliance formed in Kansai to promote opposition parties’ cooperation (March 8, 2016)
 Nurses put in unpaid overtime work worth 66,000 yen a month on average (March 8, 2016)
 LDP feels threatened by a face-off between LDP/Komei and citizens (March 7, 2016)
 Shii: Gov’t policy dependent on nuclear energy comes to dead end (March 7, 2016)
 32K Fukushima workers exposed to radiation exceeding standards for work-related leukemia recognition (March 7, 2016)
 Okinawa and Tokyo accept court-proposed-settlement in lawsuit over Henoko base (March 5, 2016)
 Public protest against Henoko base moves the central government (March 5, 2016)
 3 opposition parties endorse JCP-DPJ joint candidate in Miyagi (March 5, 2016)
 JCP Kurabayashi urges gov’t to take effective measures to promote renewable energy (March 5, 2016)
 Faults under Shika NPP most likely active: NRA expert team (March 4, 2016)
 Labor Ministry finds unpaid overtime totals 14.2 billion yen in 2014 (March 4, 2016)
 Violence in university judo team goes against very nature of judo (March 4, 2016)