Urge Obama to fulfill promise to abolish nuclear weapons: Japan Gensuikyo

At a national meeting of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), Secretary General Taka Hiroshi said, “Some argue that a change might be brought by the next U.S. administration led by Barack Obama. But our movement should be a driving force to force change. Let us turn the possibility to move toward a nuclear-free world into a reality.”

Farmers urge government to reject draft of WTO agriculture agreement

Warning that the latest World Trade Organization draft of an agreement on agriculture, if implemented, will have a catastrophic effect on Japanese agriculture, the progressive farmers’ association and a coalition of organizations of farmers, workers, and consumers urged the government to reject it.

JCP Chair Shii holds talks with Prime Minister Aso

Raising the urgent issue of temporary and fixed-term contract workers being laid off on short notice before the expiry of their contract term, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said to Prime Minister Aso Taro, “The government should exercise its power to have the large corporations and business federations end these corporate practices immediately.”