University professors and teaching staff, writers, and journalists formed a group to support a university receiving bomb threats connected to Asahi Shimbun reports on the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system.
JCP Secretariat Head Yamashita said that PM Abe wants to deny the 1993 Chief Cabinet Secretary Kono Yohei’s statement recognizing that the Japanese Imperial Army coerced women into sex slavery.
JCP Chair Shii, during the House of Representatives plenary session, used his question time to urge PM Abe to retract the Cabinet decision to lift the ban on Japan’s use of the collective self-defense right.
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