JCP calls for Sapporo City not to join in bidding for 2030 Winter Games

The JCP Hokkaido Prefectural Committee and the JCP Sapporo City Assembly Members’ Group called for the city government to give up on its plan to bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and instead work to improve Sapporo citizens’ livelihoods.

Unions stage day of action for a substantial wage hike

Union activists throughout Japan took part in a day of action, with rallies and strikes, to pressure employers into implementing wage increases.

JCP demands cancellation of 'Japan-Russia economic cooperation plan'

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that the government should cancel the "8-item economic cooperation plan" which former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo agreed upon with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2016.