Shii condemns North Korea’s missile launch

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo issued a statement strongly condemning North Korea’s missile launch on February 7.

Amount of Japan’s plutonium stockpile keeps increasing

The amount of plutonium Japan possesses inside and outside the country totals 47.8 tons. Even the United States has been expressing concern over Japan’s ever-increasing amount of plutonium.

Expansion of SDF duties with PKO will raise risk of ‘killing’ and being ‘killed’

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii warned that the expansion of Self-Defense Forces’ duties in UN Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan will increase the possibility of SDF members “killing” and being “killed”.