Agriculture minister to JCP Kami: gov’t will lessen farmers’ anxieties

Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councilors Kami Tomoko at a House agricultural committee meeting on October 16 demanded that the government take measures to urgently deal with the collapse in the price of rice paid to farmers.

Foreign Ministry deletes ‘comfort women’ documents from its website

The Foreign Ministry has deleted some documents related to Japan’s wartime “comfort women” system from the archives list on its website in mid-October.

Moneyed politics is specialty of LDP

Money-power politics is more than just scandals involving Industry Minister Obuchi Yuko and Justice Minister Matsushima Midori because this is a distinctive characteristic of the Liberal Democratic Party.