North Korea should cancel ‘rocket’ launch plan: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on December 1 issued a statement in protest against North Korea’s plan to launch a long-range rocket between December 10 and 22.

General election officially kicks off

In the House of Representatives general election campaign which officially started on December 4, the Japanese Communist Party calls for genuine reform of the 60-year-long Liberal Democratic Party-policies in favor of the U.S. and Japanese business circles.

No more nuclear power in Tokyo: candidate Utsunomiya starts election campaign

As the Tokyo gubernatorial election kicked off on November 29, anti-nuke candidate Utsunomiya Kenji pledged to promote efforts to break away from nuclear power generation in the nation’s capital.