JCP 7th CC Plenum resolves to achieve victories in nationwide simultaneous local elections and 1.3-fold increase in party strength

The 7th Plenum confirmed that the party’s most important task this year is to achieve a 1.3-fold increase in party membership and Akahata readership from the 2020 level and a major advance in the coming spring’s nationwide simultaneous local elections.

Union and citizens in Mie’s Nabari City fight to protect city hospital

A local union in Mie’s Nabari City, which is affiliated with the National Confederation of Trade Unions (Zenroren), is waging a struggle jointly with local residents to block the city government’s move to privatize Nabari City Hospital.

Ignoring constitutional principle of separation of state and religion, PM Kishida visits Ise-jingu Shrine as his 1st political act of this year

This year again, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio visited Ise-jingu Shrine as his first task of the year. Looking back on the negative history of the prewar/wartime state-sanctioned Shinto system, his repeated visits to Ise-jingu are problematic.