Young people renew determination to increase efforts to get nuclear weapons abolished

A number of events took place in Yaizu City in Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to mark the 54th anniversary of the U.S. hydrogen bomb test explosion at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.

Don’t hinder efforts to ban cluster bomb!

The Japanese government’s counterproposal is obviously running counter to the international efforts to achieve a total ban on cluster munitions as well as establishing a treaty to achieve this.

JCP chair’s questioning sends shudders through Canon management

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo at a House of Representatives committee meeting called for Canon President Mitarai Fujio to be summoned over the company’s inappropriate practice of replacing full-time employees with temporary workers.