Court nullifies dismissal of man who asked for protection

The plaintiff’s lawyer stressed that the court ruling clearly pointed to employers’ responsibility to give consideration to safety regarding exposure to secondhand smoke.

JCP Kasai meets ex-‘comfort women’ in Korea

Japanese Communist Party House of Representatives member Kasai Akira visited the “House of Sharing” in Gwangiu-si in Gyunggi-do, a home for the living ex-“comfort women” who had been forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII.

Shii requests Obama to remove all US bases from Japan

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, protesting against the rape of a Japanese woman by U.S. navy soldiers in Okinawa, and demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. bases from Japan.