I can’t recall: Okinawa governor at prefectural assembly on base relocation

Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu repeated that he “cannot recall” the process of his approving the national government application for a landfill project to construct a new U.S. military base, at a special committee meeting in the prefectural assembly.

Abe seeks boards of Education that will allow authorities to control education: Shii

Abe’s educational reform policy is moving ahead in parallel with the scheme to enable Japan to use the collective self-defense right by reinterpreting the Constitution in order to change Japan into a nation fighting wars abroad.

JCP Yamashita: lifting Japan’s embargo on arms exports opens gates for ‘merchants of death’

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Yamashita Yoshiki on February 24 criticized the Abe Cabinet’s move to lift the embargo on arms exports for paving the way for the creation of a “country of death merchants”.