National rally marking Matsukawa Incident’s 60th anniversary ( October 18, 19, 2009)
 DPJ policies criticized as inadequate in responding to people’s demands (October 18, 2009)
 FY 2010 budget request reaches record-high level ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP lawmakers and Kin mayor discuss ways to stop U.S. forces ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP demands a halt to U.S. low-altitude flight training  ( October 17, 2009)
 Farmers and consumers launch ‘Green Wave’ action ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP calls for cancellation of Awase reclamation project ( October 17, 2009)
 JCP demands next Diet session to break through crisis of people’s livelihoods ( October 16, 2009)
 Pensioners demand abolition of discriminatory system for the elderly ( October 16, 2009)
 Kyushu Electric Power forcibly loads a reactor with MOX fuel ( October 16, 2009)
 Court orders to stop using public funds for reclamation of tideland ( October 16, 2009)
 JCP Vice Chair Ogata meets with Vietnamese CP delegation ( October 16, 2009)
 Consumers calls on JCP to work to cut consumption tax ( October 15, 2009)
 Anti-poverty volunteers urge government to avoid setting up ‘tent village’ ( October 15, 2009)
 400 billion for Olympic should be used to improve living conditions ( October 15, 2009)
 ILO report concerns pay requirement for disabled ( October 15, 2009)
 JCP Central Committee holds its 9th Plenum ( October 15, 2009)
 Keidanren to forego assessing 2 major parties’ policies this year ( October 14, 2009)
 Governor approves of plan for new U.S. base in Okinawa ( October 14, 2009)
 BSE risky parts contained in imported U.S. beef ( October 11 & 14, 2009)
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki consider bidding to host 2020 Olympics ( October 12, 2009)
 U.S. used secret pact for nuclear subs to pass through straits ( October 12, 2009)
 Hokkaido prefecturel assembly adopts anti-FTA resolution ( October 11, 2009)
 Rally to celebrate 2000th sit-in against a U.S. military base  ( October 11, 2009)
 More young people become homeless ( Sunday edition, Octover 11,2009)
 Business of poverty should be eradicated - Akahata editorial (excerpts) ( October 11, 2009)
 JCP holds gathering to discuss Yanba dam construction  ( October 11, 2009)
 Why has Japan Airlines run into financial difficulty? ( Sunday edition, October 11, 2009)
 Obama’s Nobel Prize with recognition of‘a nuclear free world ’ ( October 10, 2009)
 Education minister decides to end academic achievement test ( October 10, 2009)
 Issues involved in Yanba dam project ( October 10, 2009)
 Scientists request to freeze plutonium-thermal power generation ( October 10, 2009)
 JCP chair attends JA assembly for the first time ( October 9, 2009)
 Sit-in against new U.S. air base mark 2000th day in Okinawa ( October 9, 2009)
 Representations made for state budgets assisting people’s livelihoods ( October 8, 2009)
 Number of households on welfare hits record high ( October 8, 2009)
 DPJ Ozawa calls for reduction in Lower House committee seats ( October 7, 2009)
 Government panel recommends abolishing minimum standards for public services ( October 7, 2009)
  ‘Relocation of flight training’ destroys residents’ peaceful lives - Akahata editorial (excerpts) ( October 7, 2009)
 63% of ASDF’s airlift in Iraq is U.S. force-related ( October, 7, 2009)
 Residents protest against dispatching P3C to areas off Somalia ( October 6, 2009)
 Court orders to halt Tomonoura project! ( October 6, 2009)
 Consumption tax cut is necessary to protect people’s livelihoods Akahata editorial (excerpt) [Editorial] ( October 5, 2009)
 Women call for equal working conditions ( October 4 & 5, 2009)
 After spending 15 billion yen Tokyo loses race to host 2016 Olympic Games (October 5, 2009)
 Komei Party in 10-year coalition period helped destroy welfare and peace ( October 4, 2009)
 Give up a new U.S. military base in Okinawa Akahata editorial  ( October 3, 2009)
 Smaller business owners make representations to government ( October 3, 2009)
 U.S. military urges local municipality to pay for relocation of its facilities ( October 2, 2009)
 67% of students positive about joining labor union ( October 2, 2009)