Japan Press Weekly

(March 25, 2025)

SDF new headquarters will possibly conduct enemy attack operations under US forces command

(March 19, 2025)

JCP Shiokawa criticizes bill on active cyber defense for violating Constitution and international law

(March 16, 2025)

JCP Koike urges gov’t to consider imposing higher taxes on the rich

(March 13 & 14, 2025)

Over 22K signatures opposing bill to make Science Council of Japan carry water for gov’t submitted to Cabinet Office

(March 14, 2025)

Gov’t, with aim to promote military research, intends to alter SCJ

(March 8, 2025)

Gov’t hides from public MSDF participation in multinational military drill co-hosted by US and Ukraine

(March 6, 2025)

JCP requests gov’t to reflect CEDAW recommendations on its basic plan for gender equality

(February 28, 2025)

Testimony of ex-Abe faction accountant contradicts ex-faction executives’ statement

(February 28, 2025)

Anomalies of closed-door hearing with ex-Abe faction treasurer

(February 26, 2025)

Hibakusha at Diet hearing on gov’t-proposed budget draft criticizes huge increase in arms spending

(February 26, 2025)

Budget for election awareness campaigns drops to \100 million in 2021 from \2.3 billion in 1996

(February 21, 2025)

JCP Tatsumi: Hold social media platforms accountable for fake news on social media

(February 19, 2025)

JCP protests against Lower House Budget Committee chair’s decision to hold closed-door hearing with ex-Abe faction accountant

(February 17 & 19, 2025)

JCP Tatsumi: Gov’t use of Japanese taxpayer money to support production of semiconductors for US weapons unacceptable

(February 18, 2025)

Shii presses PM Ishiba to recognize forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as breach of international law

(February 18, 2025)

Japan should not be aligned with US aggressive East Asia strategy

(February 15, 2025)

JCP proposes fundamental recompilation of 2025 gov’t-drafted budget

(February 14, 2025)

JCP CC Chair: PM Ishiba, ignoring Diet, promises US to further increase military spending

(February 13, 2025)

Yamazoe questions PM Ishiba’s stance toward President Trump

(February 13, 2025)

JCP lawmakers express critical position on OSA

(February 12, 2025)

Contract-based budget for construction of SDF camp on Mageshima Island already tops 1 trillion yen

(February 11, 2025)

Japan may expand scope of use of its right to collective self-defense to include Australia

(February 9, 2025)

JCP EC Chair criticizes PM Ishiba’s submissive stance taken at his first meeting with US President Trump

(February 7, 2025)

JCP EC Chair: Japanese gov’t should be ashamed of its failure to criticize Trump’s Gaza statements

(February 5, 2025)

JCP Tamura calls for cancellation of gov’t plan to raise high-cost medical care co-payment cap

(February 4, 2025)

JCP Shiokawa: Urgent need to lower sales tax to 5%

(January 31, 2025)

Opposition parties in unison vote for summoning of ex-Abe faction’s treasurer as unsworn witness

(January 30, 2025)

JCP Koike in interpellation calls on gov’t to spend more for disaster victims in Noto and to enhance people’s livelihoods

(January 29, 2025)

JCP EC Chair Tamura proposes 5 reforms and presents ways to secure necessary financial resources

(January 29, 2025)

JCP Koike: It is ‘Ishin’ that keeps giving helping hand to LDP

(January 25, 2025)

PM Ishiba’s policy will cause more suffering not ‘pleasure’

(January 25, 2025)

PM Ishiba: Japan will boost military spending as US gov’t demands

(January 25, 2025)

Tamura: Ishiba’s policy speech represents impasse in LDP politics

(January 24, 2025)

Shii on X comments on Japan-US Foreign Ministers’ meeting

(January 15, 2025)

LDP kickbacks had efficacy in hiding income and outflow that they didn’t want to make public

(January 9, 2025)

PM Ishiba in meeting with Hibakusha adheres to US nuclear umbrella due to current tension in the region

(January 5 & 7, 2025)

PM Ishiba, ignoring constitutional principle of separation of state and religion, visits Ise-jingu Shrine

(December 25, 2024)

Bill to abolish ‘policy activity funds’ becomes law

(December 24, 2024)

Candidate backed by JCP elected as mayor of an Osaka city

(December 22, 2024)

JCP Yamashita calls for tightening intake limits for PFAS in line with latest research

(December 21, 2024)

All LDP lawmakers in Political Ethics Committee interrogations claim they ‘Don't Know’ about kickback money

(December 19, 2024)

N-power industry donates more than 600 million yen to LDP in fiscal 2023

(December 19, 2024)

JCP urges gov’t to remove nuclear power generation from new basic energy plan

(December 18, 2024)

FY2024 supplementary budget prioritizing military buildup over support for disaster-hit Noto enacted

(December 18, 2024)

‘Political reform’-related bills passed through Lower House

(December 17, 2024)

Shiokawa raps LDP for trying to maintain system allowing purchases of fundraiser tickets by foreign corporations

(December 17, 2024)

Pro-civic candidate beats LDP-backed incumbent in Tokyo’s Kunitachi City

(December 12, 2024)

Tax the 220 trillion yen in internal reserves that big businesses accumulated thanks to ‘Abenomics’

(December 11, 2024)

On day of Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for A-bomb survivors, Japan and US discuss enhancement of nuclear deterrence

(December 7, 2024)

LDP promoting military buildup while receiving 33 million yen in donations from arms company