PM Kan’s apology for DPJ manifesto courts LDP and Komei

Prime Minster Kan Naoto at an Upper House Budget Committee meeting on July 22 apologized for non-fulfillment of his party’s key promises made in the 2009 election manifesto with which the party had called upon voters to replace the old government.

Shii on how JCP views surge in the Middle East for democratic change

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo speaks on the movements demanding democratic change taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and in other Middle East countries.

Who benefits from NPP ‘community of interest’?

Yoshii Hidekatsu, House of Representatives member of the Japanese Communist Party, outlines the structure of the “community of interest” that includes both the political and business arenas benefitting from nuclear power generation.