All JCP candidates win Hino City Assembly election with record-high share of votes

All five candidates of the Japanese Communist Party won Tokyo’s Hino City Assembly election on February 16 with a record-high share of votes.

Abe’s labor reform will decrease workers’ wages by 42 trillion yen: think tank

The Abe Cabinet’s labor reform plan will decrease workers’ wages by 41.9 trillion yen or about 9% of Japan’s GDP, according to estimates released by the Japan Research Institute of Labour Movement (Rodo Soken).

JCP will do its best to shatter Abe’s intent to exercise collective self-defense right: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo pledged to block the Abe government’s move to permit the state to exercise the right to collective self-defense, saying, “His intention is to turn Japan into a nation that can wage war overseas.”