Prewar court precedent showing coerciveness of Japanese military’s ‘comfort women’ system added to gov’t archive

JCP Kami pointed out that the judgement of prewar/wartime Japan’s top court can be considered as an evidence proving that the women were forced into serving as “comfort women”.

Gov’t move to promote integration between gov’t, industry, and academia creates dangerous path toward becoming a war-fighting nation

The Ministry of Defense is accelerating its move to bring universities, public research institutes, and private business entities fully into military research and development projects.

JCP Koike criticizes CDPJ leader candidate’s remark regarding joint struggles with JCP

JCP Secretariat Head Koike Akira criticized a remark by a candidate running for the CDPJ leader that as a result of promoting joint struggles with the JCP, “the CDPJ’s vision for a future society became blurred,” as being inappropriate.