Shii reports on his visit to the U.S.

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo reported on the outcome of his visit to the United States at an inner-party meeting on May 21.

Rengo-affiliate NTT union does not speak for workers

“The union didn’t protect us at all.” “Is this really a workers’ union?” Former contract workers of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation Hokkaido Branch (NTT East - Hokkaido) are raising this question concerning the NTT Trade Union’s function.

PM announces keeping Futenma in Okinawa

Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio officially announced Okinawa’s Henoko district as a site to shift the U.S. Futenma base to at a meeting with Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu on May 23.

JCP members are there for you

Do you know that there are 406,000 Japanese Communist Party members in Japan? This means that about one out of every 250 people of the population aged 18 or over is a JCP member. Akiba Shigeru, 61, is one of them.