9th JCP municipal head elected

In Izu-Oshima, an island in the Tokyo administrative area located 120km south of Tokyo, Japanese Communist Party member Kawashima Masafumi was elected as the Oshima Town mayor on April 24, the 9th JCP municipal head in the country.

Victims must have input in recovery plan: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 22 at a press conference in the Diet stated that disaster reconstruction should proceed based on the principle that the “disaster sufferers and communities must be the key players.”

Business Circles use political donations as bait to promote nuclear power generation

Both the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan, in response to the business community’s request, have promoted nuclear power generation in an attempt to receive more corporate donations.