Shii answers questions from foreign journalists about JCP

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo answered questions raised about the JCP by foreign journalists after giving his luncheon speech on dangerous nature of ‘security’ legislation.

UN experts: TPP will have adverse impact on human rights

PM Abe said that he will take the lead ‘together with the U.S. in swiftly concluding the TPP’ following the enactment of TPA legislation in the U.S. Senate, but a group of UN experts are expressing concern about adverse impact of free trade on human rights.

News media raise voices in opposition after ‘Destroy Okinawa newspapers’ remark at LDP study meeting

Voices of opposition have been raised from the press after a revelation that at a study meeting of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, guest speaker Hyakuta Naoki and participating lawmakers suggested the need to suppress free speech.