Over 560,000 Hibakusha Appeal signatures submitted to UN

The representatives of groups promoting a Hibakusha-led signature campaign held a news conference in Tokyo and announced that they submitted to the UN 564,240 signatures calling for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Dentsu worker’s suicide recognized as work-related

A labor standards inspection office in Tokyo acknowledged that the suicide of a 24-year-old female worker at Japan’s major advertising agency Dentsu as work-related, Akahata reported.

Koike grills key cabinet ministers over ‘blank receipt’ scandals

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira at an Upper House Budget Committee meeting revealed political money scandals involving Abe Cabinet members. This latest revelation has caused a sensation among the general public.