JCP Ichida expresses opposition to extending Diet session to enact adverse bills

“The Abe Cabinet must go. It has taken a very high-handed attitude to impose policies to lower living standards and destroy peace, the Constitution, and democracy. They are not only speeding dangerously but also making sharp right turns at every corner,” Ichida said.

SDF must immediately stop illegal surveillance of citizens’ activities: JCP rally

Stressing that the resurgence of the wartime political system in which the military police monitored and suppressed public criticism must not be condoned, JCP Chair Shii said, “Let us promote cooperation among citizens and make every effort to put an end to the illegal surveillance.”

JCP publishes its House of Councilors election manifesto

JCP Secretariat Head Ichida announced the 12-point JCP manifesto for the 2007 House of Councilors election entitled, “The JCP is determined to defend living conditions and peace as the ‘reliable opposition party’.”