Former JCP Chair Fuwa encourages young people to ‘make friends with Marx’

“Let’s make friends with Karl Marx,” Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute Director Fuwa Tetsuzo said at a lecture meeting on scientific socialism, encouraging young people to learn more about the 19th-century political philosopher.

JCP urges China to drop its demand to delete visit proposal for A-bombed cities from NPT final text

JCP Vice Chair Ogata Yasuo on May 19 met with the Chinese Embassy political counsellor and requested that China withdraw its request to delete a proposal for world leaders’ visit to the two A-bombed cities from a draft final statement of the NPT Review Conference.

PM Abe: I’ve not read 1945 Potsdam Declaration

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo, referring to the Potsdam Declaration as the starting point of Japan’s postwar democracy, said, “A person who has not read such a fundamental document is not fit to serve as prime minister.”