JCP is engaged in fierce contests in latter half of local elections (April 12, 2007)
 ‘Prompt critical’ suspected at Shika N-plant (April 12, 2007)
 Shii attends banquet for Chinese premier (April 12, 2007)
 Ogata meets Venezuelan ambassador to Japan (April 12, 2007)
 22 local bar associations express opposition to hasty enactment of constitutional revision procedures bill (April 11, 2007)
 Rightist Dietmembers intending to completely rewrite Preamble and Article 9 of Constitution (April 11, 2007)
 Local JCP working for reduction in burden of national health insurance premium (April 13, 2007)
 Association for Non-nuclear Government calls for government effort for nuclear weapons abolition (April 11, 2007)
 Labor Ministry uses staffing agency while instructing it to end illegal practices (April 11, 2007)
 JCP issues statement on results of first half of nationwide simultaneous local elections (April 10, 2007)
 JCP-backed candidate loses Tokyo gubernatorial election (April 9, 2007)
 Local assemblies state objections to bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision (April 9, 2007)
 TEPCO disguised N-plant parts to evade state inspection (April 8, 2007)
 U.S. meatpackers repeatedly exporting beef to Japan without proper U.S. government certificates (April 7 and 10, 2007)
 Cabinet approves bill to establish ‘NSC’ modeled after U.S. (April 7, 2007)
 Revision to Broadcast Law to allow government intervention in TV programs (April 7, 2007)
 Okinawans rally against history textbook screening (April 7, 2007)
 Return foreign cultural property plundered by Japan during Japan’s occupation: JCP Ishii (April 7, 2007)
 Majority of speakers at public hearing express opposition to bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision (April 6, 2007)
 Conservative Dietmembers calling for constitutional revision launching campaign in rivalry with Article 9 Associations (April 6, 2007)
 Uranium mishandled at NFI Tokai Works (April 6, 2007)
 A step forward for amendment to Civil Code needs to be made in the Current Diet session[Editorial] (April 5, 2007)
 Government bill excludes most of part-timers from equal treatment (April 4, 2007)
 Diet without PM debates with party heads reflects dilemma for LDP and DPJ (April 4, 2007)
 Religious leaders submit to Diet 7,200 more signatures in opposition to bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision (April 4, 2007)
 Hibakusha request cabinet to revise criteria for certifying A-bomb diseases (April 4 and 5, 2007)
 70% of municipalities are without obstetrics care in Nara Pref. (April 4, 2007)
 Earthquake hits Noto Peninsula (April 1, 2007)
 Tokyo punishes another 35 teachers for refusing to stand for Hinomaru and Kimigayo (March 31, 2007)
 Cabinet decides to extend Iraq special measures law (March 31, 2007)
 Education ministry orders revision of war history in textbook (March 31 & April 2, 2007)
 Electric power companies report 97 of irregularity cases at N-plant operations (March 31 & April 1, 2007)
 Government deeply involved in enshrinement of war criminals at Yasukuni (March 30, 2007)
 U.S. forces concealed toxic substance leaks at U.S. Yokota Base (March 30, 2007)
 JCP and German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation set about theoretical exchanges (March 30, 2007)
 Ruling coalition submits to Diet a revised bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision (March 28, 2007)
 JCP chair exchanges views with NPC vice chair on improving Japan-China ties (March 28, 2007)
 Ogata meets with president of China Society of History of Sino-Japanese Relations (March 28, 2007)
 Court orders major insurer to cancel its plan to abolish field salesperson system (March 27, 2007)
 Shii in campaign speeches emphasizes that struggles for great cause will have important bearings on the future (March 27, 2007)
 Distortion of historical issue of sex slaves coincides with constitutional revision: JCP Chair Shii (March 27, 2007)
 Child-rearing flight attendants win suit against JAL’s pay cuts (March 27, 2007)
 FY 2007 budget bill expanding gaps between rich and poor enacted (March 27, 2007)
 Abduction and ‘comfort women’ are totally different issues: PM Abe (March 27, 2007)
 Hibakusha and hepatitis C patients to hold sit-ins to protest Health Ministry (March 27, 2007)
 JCP Ogata Talks with South Korean Parliament Members (March 27, 2007)
 Government position on wartime sex slave issue undermines its position on North Korea’s abduction issue (March 26, 2007)
 Bill to implement U.S. military realignment only to deepen Japan’s aberrations[Editorial] (March 25, 2007)
 JCP Akamine demands bill to facilitate U.S. forces realignment be withdrawn (March 24, 2007)
 Bill to make betrayal obligatory passes through Lower House (March 24, 2007)