JCP efforts in Diet push major insurance company to stop imposing long working hours on workers

Japan’s , majort non-life insurance company recently decided to stop applying the so-called discretionary work system to workers in violation of labor laws, effectively reflecting Diet deliberations made by a Japanese Communist Party lawmaker.

PM Abe gets stuck answering questions on ‘Kake’ scandal

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at an Upper House session held to probe the “Kake Gakuen” scandal often got stuck in responding to questions asked by opposition lawmakers and became confused and inconsistent in his responses.

Closing the curtain on SDF data cover-up scandal with DM’s resignation unacceptable

Defense Minister Inada Tomomi resigned from the Cabinet for the cover-up of PKO-related “daily reports” which the Ground Self-Defense Force had retained while insisting that they had already been discarded.