JCP is number-one party in backing citizens’ demands

In the previous session of the Diet, Japanese Communist Party Dietmembers gave support to 73.15% of all petitions brought by citizens, the highest percentage among all the political parties.

Start of dialogues for normalizing US-Cuba relations is welcome advance

The U.S. and Cuban leaders recently announced that the two nations will open negotiations to normalize their relations suspended since 1961. Behind this historic change lies a growing international criticism over the U.S. embargo against Cuba.

Ruling parties’ ‘major victory’ in general election is pure fiction

Japan’s media unanimously reported that the ruling parties won a “landslide victory” in the recent Lower House election. But it could hardly be said that the Abe government gained credit with the general public.