JCP Ogata urges CPC to retract its ADIZ

Japanese Communist Party Vice Chair Ogata Yasuo on December 12 urged a delegation of the Communist Party of China to retract the air-defense identification zone (ADIZ) that the Chinese government designated over the East China Sea.

Police encouraged internal spying in nuclear energy agency

The security police had encouraged a nuclear energy-related organization to have its workers spy on colleagues who were members of the Japanese Communist Party, revealed Akahata recently.

Okinawans launch sit-in against landfill for US base construction

Okinawan residents on December 16 launched a sit-in in front of the prefectural government office calling on the governor to turn down the national government’s request for an approval to reclaim waters off Nago City in order to build a new U.S. base.