Keidanren must recognize responsibility to resolve economic crisis - Akahata editorial

The Japan Business Federation’s (Nippon Keidanren) Committee on Management and Labor Policy published a report outlining its policy on how to deal with labor’s wage increase demands in this year’s Spring Struggle. Although the theme of the latest annual report is “To overcome the crisis and pave the way for a new development,” it fails to propose appropriate ways to do so.

DPJ Ozawa questioned over source of 400 million yen

Tokyo prosecutors on January 23 questioned Ozawa Ichiro, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, on suspicion of violating the Political Funds Control Law over a land purchase by his fund management organization Rikuzankai.

Anti- U.S. base candidate Inamine elected as Nago mayor

In the Nago City mayoral election on January 24 in Okinawa, Inamine Susumu, who opposes the construction of a new U.S. military base off the city’s Henoko district in the name of “transferring” the U.S. Futenma Air Station, was elected to be the next mayor.