Okinawa’s sugar cane farmers against TPP

Sugar cane is Okinawa’s main agricultural product, produced by 80% of local farmers. Farmers in Okinawa’s Ishigaki Island are now busy harvesting sugar cane. They are very concerned about the government’s intention to take part in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact.

Shii proposes three measures for solution to Senkaku problem

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii in the JCP 6th Central Committee Plenum stressed that negotiating in a cool-headed and rational manner is the only way to solve the dispute over the Senkaku Islands with China.

Shii calls for Japan-S. Korea talks on ‘comfort women’ issue

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo in the JCP 6th Central Committee Plenum said that the Japanese government should negotiate with South Korea on the wartime sex slave issue based on a bilateral agreement.