JCP Kokuta demands cancellation of Japan-Israel EPA talks

Pointing out that the conclusion of an economic partnership agreement with Israel will mean that Japan condones Israel’s acts of breaching international law, JCP lawmaker Kokuta Keiji demanded that Japan cease negotiations on the bilateral EPA.

LDP’s decision to punish 39 lawmakers does not deserve to be called ‘punishment’

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira criticized the Liberal Democratic Party for intending to close the curtain with toothless punishments without getting to the bottom of the slash fund scandal.

Economic secrecy bill aims to facilitate weapons development with allies

Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Representatives Shiokawa Tetsuya opposed the bill on economic secrets as it “aims to promote weapons development in cooperation with allies and like-minded countries.”