Imabari City decides to stop using war-glorifying textbooks

Pushed by citizens’ movements, the board of education of Ehime’s Imabari City decided that next year public junior high schools in the city will stop using textbooks published by a rightist publisher, Ikuhosha.

NGO: Abe’s war bills will turn humanitarian aid groups into targets of armed attacks

The war legislation aiming to enable the SDF to guard NGOs abroad ignores the fundamental principle of NGOs’ conduct as well as the real dangers facing them, said a staff of the Japan International Volunteer Center engaging in activities in South Sudan.

Diet surrounded by 120,000 people seeking to kill war bills

On the last Sunday in August (30th), at more than 1,000 locations in all 47 prefectures, hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously staged protests against the government-sponsored war bills.