Japan to use 610 billion yen for a bogus ‘relocation’ of U.S. Marines to Guam from Okinawa

In the May 1, 2006 Japan-U.S. Roadmap for Realignment Implementation, the Japanese government agreed to provide 6.09 billion dollars of the estimated 10.27 billion dollars as the facilities and infrastructure development costs for the III MEF relocation (8,000 Marines and their 9,000 families) to Guam.

Democratic Party’s election for party leader is far from convincing the public

If the Democratic Party of Japan continues to provide excessively favorable treatment to large corporations and the financial circles, it will be unable to deal with the immediate problems that the majority of the public needs to solve even if it can take power.

U.S. government appreciates JCP Chair Shii’s letter on elimination of nuclear weapons

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on May 19 made public a letter he received from the U.S. government in response to his April 28 letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to take the initiative for starting international negotiations to conclude a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons.