JCP doubles its number of assembly seats in tsunami-hit Miyagi

The Japanese Communist Party on November 13 achieved a successful outcome in an election for the 59-seat Miyagi prefectural assembly, and doubled the number of its assembly seats from 2 to 4.

TEPCO’s tyrannical control promoted N-power generation

A mid-1960s internal document of TEPCO listed as labor control measures: exclude members of the JCP from union executives in order to select and foster human resources obedience to the company; and categorize communist sympathizers into three levels in order to determine suitable countermeasures. (“Overcome discrimination and oppression” - Part 1)

Counter-public DPJ gov’t has no future

About 80% of municipal assemblies expressed opposition to or need for careful consideration regarding Japan’s entry into the TPP talks. More than 11.7 million people signed anti-TPP petitions. The DPJ-led government paid no notice at all to these voices. Can this be called a democratic government?