Newly-authorized schoolbooks colored by far-right Abe regime

The Education Ministry announced the screening results of high school textbooks which are scheduled to be used from April 2017. The authorized textbooks directly reflect the view of the Abe government with its aim to turn Japan into a war-fighting nation.

Refusals growing among new graduates of defense academy to become officers

More than 10% of the graduates this spring from the National Defense Academy of Japan are declining to accept their commissions with the increasing possibility of the Self-Defense Forces to use armed force abroad.

JCP proposes to halve university tuitions

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo published policy proposals to halve university tuitions in ten years and to provide scholarships of 30,000 yen a month to one in four university students.