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Austrian prime minister expresses support for starting negotiations on total ban of nuclear weapons

Japan Gensuikyo received a reply from the Austrian prime minister to the “Letter to Governments from Nagasaki” that called on governments in the world to start negotiations on a treaty totally banning nuclear weapons.

U.S. Marine arrested for raping 14-year-old girl in Okinawa

In Okinawa, U.S. servicemen have repeatedly committed vicious crimes, including a gang-rape of an elementary school girl in 1995. Okinawans bitterly resent the recent crime and strengthen their call for the removal of U.S. bases.

JCP Shii in the Diet denounces Canon for using temps as ‘disposable workers’

Shii strongly urged the prime minister to fundamentally change the Worker Dispatch Law into a law that protects the rights of temporary workers.

POLITICS
FY 2007 supplementary budget approved despite Upper House rejection
JCP Shii in the Diet denounces Canon for using temps as ‘disposable workers’
US FORCES
U.S. Marine arrested for raping 14-year-old girl in Okinawa
LABOR
Union members urge Canon to fulfill its corporate social responsibility
SOCIAL ISSUES
Japan’s major Buddhist sect launches Article 9 Association
Japanese dairy and livestock farmers are in crisis due to skyrocketing feed prices
JT Foods ignored complaints about Chinese-made frozen food
NHK faces crisis
PEACE
Local residents file lawsuit in a bid to block relocation of U.S. carrier-borne aircraft to Iwakuni base
Otaru City residents continue to struggle to prevent military use of their port
Foreign Ministry official walks out of meeting with JCP petitioners after expressing displeasure
Opponent of U.S. carrier-borne aircraft deployment puts up good fight in Iwakuni mayoral election
editorial Let’s renew determination to step up movement for abolition of nuclear weapons at Bikini Day events
WORLD
Austrian prime minister expresses support for starting negotiations on total ban of nuclear weapons
JCP
Ogata meets with Venezuelan governing party leader
Shii attends Vietnamese New Year reception
Ogata meets with Indian parliamentary members
Ogata meets with Nepalese ambassador
WELFARE
editorial Stop the new ‘medical-care system for the elderly’
High blood pressure patients to be excluded from health checkups under new medical-care system for the elderly
EDUCATION
Tokyo ordered to pay 27.6 million yen over ‘Kimigayo’ suit


  
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