Shii welcomes new UNSC sanctions on North Korea (March 4, 2016)
 Abe wants to accomplish constitutional revision while still in office (March 3, 2016)
 5 opposition parties jointly submit bill to increase care workers’ wages (March 3, 2016)
 JCP in Miyagi will back DPJ candidate for Upper House election (March 3, 2016)
 Citizens protest against string of troubles with restarted nuclear reactor (March 3, 2016)
 Former foreign minister of Marshall Islands attends Bikini Day rally (March 2, 2016)
 Top court pardons liability of relatives of a man with dementia hit by train (March 2, 2016)
 Gov’t should drastically increase cultural budget to ensure people can enjoy art (March 2, 2016)
 Defense Ministry draws up plan to kill ‘enemies’ abroad (March 1, 2016)
 TV anchors protest against minister’s remarks intimidating broadcasters (March 1, 2016)
 Ogata in 2016 Bikini Day event highlights need for nuclear weapons convention (March 1, 2016)
 Ex-TEPCO executives indicted for Fukushima nuclear meltdown (March 1, 2016)
 Citizens voice anxieties about health damage from uranium dug up by maglev railway construction (February 28, 2016)
 Residents near Takahama NPP need 7.5 hours to escape from nuclear accident (February 28, 2016)
 Union survey: 80% of nursing-care workers state that PM Abe’s measures did not lead to wage increase (February 27, 2016)
 Ex-fishermen in Kochi apply for workers compensation for radiation exposure from Bikini Atoll H-bomb test (February 27, 2016)
 Citizens’ groups hold rally to oppose Japan-India nuclear energy deal (February 27, 2016)
 Court decision convicting SDF of spying on the public is finalized (February 18, 2016)
 Contingent workers’ lifetime wages are half of regular workers’ (February 26, 2016)
 Parents-doctors network calls for free medical service for children (February 25 & 26, 2016)
 Murder of elderly requiring nursing care caused by poor social policy: expert (February 26, 2016)
 High school students urge Education Ministry to withdraw restrictions on their political activities (February 25, 2016)
 High court approves citizen’s call for transparency in Cabinet’s secret funds system (February 25, 2016)
 Zenroren releases results of regular survey on women workers (February 25, 2016)
 Citizens protest USS Blue Ridge’s entry into Osaka Port (February 25, 2016)
 NRA okays use of 40-year-old reactors at Takahama NPP (February 25, 2016)
 5 opposition parties begin talks on electoral cooperation (February 24, 2016)
 People’s joint struggle in 1980s block military use of outer space (February 24, 2016)
 Japan should never revert to the militarist past (February 24, 2016)
 JCP urges Osaka mayor to disallow US warship’s entrance into Osaka Port (February 23, 2016)
 Young people in Japan are struggling with repayment of so-called ‘scholarship’ loans (February 23, 2016)
 This week’s JCP international activity (February 23, 2016)
 Shii calls on all candidates and chairs of JCP prefectural committees to fight to win in Upper House race (February 23, 2016)
 28,000 people surround Diet building opposing US base construction in Okinawa (February 22, 2016)
 Late teens in nationwide concerted action call for end to war laws (February 22, 2016)
 Shii attends SDP convention for first time in JCP history (February 21, 2016)
 5 opposition parties jointly submit a bill to abolish the war laws (February 20, 2016)
 Electoral cooperation to repeal war legislation agreed upon among opposition parties (February 20, 2016)
 JCP and DPJ in Hokkaido will field joint candidate in Lower House by-election (February 20, 2016)
 Violence at UN camp in South Sudan verifies risk of SDF members ‘killing’ and ‘being killed’ in PKO missions (February 20, 2016)
 Dismissal aimed at busting workers’ union is illegal: high court (February 20, 2016)
 JCP efforts contribute to lowering nursing-care costs of disaster victims (February 19, 2016)
 US Army copter drops a window (February 19, 2016)
 Olympus worker wins settlement in lawsuit over unfair treatment due to whistleblowing (February 19, 2016)
 Families of ex-Hansen disease patients in court call for society free from discrimination and prejudice (February 19, 2016)
 Gov’t data provides evidence of failure of ‘Abenomics’ (February 17 & 18, 2016)
 UN women’s rights committee criticizes Japan for trying to deny forcible recruitment of ‘comfort women’ (February 18, 2016)
 Maritime workers stand up to gov’t policy to mobilize them for wars (February 17, 2016)
 JCP Miyamoto criticizes increase in ‘sympathy budget’ as extraordinary subservience of Japan to US (February 17, 2016)
 Coffee shop worker reaches court-mediated-settlement over unfair dismissal (February 17, 2016)