Dwellers under threat of Olympics-related eviction send request to IOC: we don’t want to move out

People living in the housing complex run by the Tokyo Metropolitan government have been complaining that their community and their right to housing would be destroyed due to the construction of Olympics-associated facilities.

Talks on US base construction in Okinawa break down

Okinawa Governor Onaga expressed his firm determination to block the construction project, following the failure of Onaga-Abe talks on the construction of a new U.S. base in Henoko.

SDF top to Washington: War bills will be enacted by this summer

A Japanese Communist Party lawmaker revealed that although war bills were not even submitted to the Diet, the SDF highest ranking officer told DOD that Japan will enact the national security legislation by the summer of 2015.