Osaka Mayor intends to impose penalty on city workers’ political activities

Osaka City Mayor Hashimoto Toru intends to enact a local law to restrict city workers’ political activities with varying degrees of punishment up to “imprisonment for 2 years or less”.

Koike talks of impasse on capitalism on radio

Japanese Communist Party Policy Commission Chair Koike Akira on a radio program aired on May 25 talked of the JCP principles and policies as well as how the party views large corporations.

Spent nuclear fuel storage sites will be full in 8 years

More than half of the storage pools for spent nuclear fuel at nuclear power plants throughout Japan will be at full capacity in 8 years if the reactors continue to operate.