Why is the JCP so vigorous?

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo gave a speech at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 3, expounding on the JCP’s “source of vigor” from four angles.

Guam residents are not welcoming U.S. Marines relocation from Okinawa

Residents of Guam are so reluctant to accept the U.S. Marines to be stationed on the island of U.S. territory in the Pacific that the Guam governor would sign the ordinance passed by the Guam Legislature to hold a referendum over the planned reinforcement of U.S. forces in Guam, said the speaker of the Guam Territorial Legislature.

JCP Shii criticizes Obama’s Japan policy and pro-military alliance forces in Japan

JCP Chair Shii Kazuo says that there is no change in U.S. policy toward Japan under the Obama administration, which is committed to further promoting the strengthening of the functions of U.S. military bases in Japan under the name of U.S. military transformation and realignment as well as the military integration of Japan and the United States.