Chinese trainees win fight for unpaid wages against textile firm

Chinese trainees, who worked at a textile company in Tokushima Prefecture under the international technical intern training program, succeeded in recovering unpaid wages from the company with the help of a trade union and the Japanese Communist Party.

War legislation aims to mobilize civilian workers

A bill to permanently allow the government to dispatch the Japanese Self-Defense Forces abroad intends to have private companies assist the SDF in providing logistic support to foreign troops.

Pentagon: No US base in Japan assigned to defend Japan

It has been revealed that a classified document which the U.S. Department of Defense drew up in 1968 states that no U.S. base in Japan has a duty to defend Japan.