Video-streaming of Shii’s questioning on temporary workers attracts massive favorable comments

With Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo’s questioning at the House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on October 7 drawing great public interest, particularly among young workers, the number of accesses to Websites showing the video of Shii’s interpellation has reached 90,000 as of October 18.

Ichida says DPJ is competing with LDP for wrecking Constitution

During the discussion of the bill to extend the deployment of the Maritime Self-Defense Force to the Indian Ocean, the LDP and the DPJ revealed that they were in agreement to establish a permanent law to enable Japan to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces abroad without Diet approval, said Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi.

Do not force ordinary people to pay the cost of financial fallout

At a time when the wave of financial crisis started in the U.S. is felt in Japan, it is important that we must not allow the government to force the general public to pay the cost for an economic slowdown. The need is to move away from the pro-big business policy and put people first.