World Conference will focus on next step toward nuclear weapons-free world after adoption of N-ban treaty

The Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs announced the list of 105 overseas delegates from 22 countries as well as the schedule of this year’s Conference due to be held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 3 to August 9.

Argument and counterargument: Akahata foreign editor on death of Liu Xiaobo

Chinese writer and democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel peace prize winner, died on July 13. Akahata Foreign Editor Sugawawa Hiraku published a bylined statement on Liu’s death.

JCP with 95-year history will continue to pioneer a better future

The Japanese Communist Party was inaugurated on July 15, 1922. The road that the party has taken to open up a new era while indomitably working for people’s interests, peace, and democracy is a hallmark in its 95-year history.