Even though the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) unions are showing restraint in demanding wage increases, it is justifiable for workers to demand more; they are only trying to get a tiny part of the enormous profits to be returned to workers.
The biggest reason Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo gave for releasing the agriculture plan was that “Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate has dropped to 39 percent, the world’s lowest, driving Japan into a serious crisis in food and agriculture.”
In a bid to step up its drive to adversely revise the Constitution, the “Parliamentarian Group to Establish a New Constitution” has carried out a shakeup by adding Democratic Party lawmakers to the executive board.
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