Japan Press Weekly

(March 19, 2024)

Nissan bullied subcontractors by reducing its payments by more than 3 billion yen

(September 2, 2022)

Large corporations’ internal reserves increase to nearly 500 trillion yen

(June 17, 2022)

Yen's decline will add fuel to rising prices

(May 16, 2022)

Minimum hourly wage hike vital to reduce adverse impact of price surge

(May 11, 2022)

PM Kishida in the City of London suddenly announces his plan to increase Japanese public's assets through investments

(April 29, 2022)

US pressure leads to downfall of Japan’s semiconductor industry

(September 17, 2021)

JA’s call for gov’t measures to prevent pandemic-induced rice price collapse same as JCP and Nouminren demand

(September 10, 2021)

Despite COVID crisis, internal reserves of corporations with over \1 billion in capital hit record high

(April 29, 2021)

Japanese family farmers protest Diet approval of RCEP

(April 10, 2021)

JCP: Japan should withdraw from RCEP free-trade framework

(November 30, 2020)

Realignment of regional banks will harm local economies

(November 25, 2020)

JCP Kami demands abolition of Trump-Abe trade deal

(November 25, 2020)

Keidanren seeks further deregulations while supposedly criticizing neoliberalism

(November 17, 2020)

JCP Koike demands that gov't make public the details of RCEP talks

(November 13, 2020)

Kasai criticizes EPA with UK for leading to limitless liberalization of Japanese rice market

(November 12, 2020)

Despite pandemic situation, total assets of Japanese billionaires top 20 trillion yen

(August 18, 2020)

Koike comments on worst-ever drop of 27.8% in GDP

(July 21, 2020)

Grassroots movements for tax justice across the world work to put end to major firms’ tax avoidance

(July 17, 2020)

Local assemblies one after another enact ordinance to protect heirloom seeds

(July 15, 2020)

Largest shareholders in 85.3% of Nikkei 225 are GPIF and BOJ

(July 11, 2020)

PM Abe’s use of public pension funds for boosting stock prices results in largest-ever loss

(July 10, 2020)

Casino promotion disappears from draft of PM Abe’s economic growth strategy

(July 2, 2020)

Sluggish domestic economy and uncertainty about future become clearer

(April 23, 2020)

Economist: Financial crisis triggered by COVID-19 pandemic highlights vulnerability of Japanese economy

(April 14 & 15, 2020)

Abe gov’t intends to turn Japan’s heirloom seeds into profits of multinational agribusinesses

(April 11, 2020)

Opposition parties jointly submit bill to limit GPIF investment

(March 31, 2020)

Taxing large multinationals needed to secure funding to tackle economic impact of corona crisis: JCP Daimon

(March 27, 2020)

JCP proposes direct bailout of individuals affected financially by new coronavirus

(March 18, 2020)

BOJ’s additional monetary easing is no solution to coronavirus-induced economic crisis

(March 15, 2020)

Koike on news show demands cuts in sales tax to 5% as anti-corona economic policy

(March 13, 2020)

JCP makes urgent proposal on economic crisis pertaining to coronavirus outbreak

(February 18, 2020)

Koike: GDP drop caused by consumption tax hike to 10%

(February 8, 2020)

Tamura: Gov’t should squarely confront fall in consumer spending caused by forcible consumption tax increase

(February 5, 2020)

International rules on digital tax necessary to have tech giants pay their fair share of tax

(January 28, 2020)

Abe should admit his error in bulldozing through consumption tax hike

(December 13, 2019)

Ruling block’s tax reform plan will be beneficial only to large corporations

(November 29, 2019)

Japan-US trade liberalization may lead to increase in cancer-causing ingredients in school meals

(November 29, 2019)

Japan-US digital trade agreement will harm human rights protection online: expert

(November 20, 2019)

Without examining necessary information, Diet approves Japan-US trade pact

(November 16, 2019)

Diet approval bill for Japan-US trade deal passes Lower House committee

(October 11, 2019)

Japan formally signs humiliating trade pact with US

(October 10, 2019)

JCP Koike: What's win-win with Japan-US trade deal?

(October 9, 2019)

OECD seeks to tighten taxation rules on IT giants

(October 3, 2019)

BOJ economic survey verifies how irrational consumption tax hike to 10% actually is

(August 12, 2019)

Investment earnings of GPIF shows \8 trillion yen decrease

(July 19, 2019)

What is pension reserve of 192.7 trillion yen for?

(July 11, 2019)

Abe brags about his agricultural policies based on misleading data

(June 30, 2019)

G20 Osaka Summit fails to respond to global challenges

(June 24, 2019)

Abe’s 2019 economic and fiscal policy sticks to cutbacks in social welfare services

(June 18, 2019)

JCP urges Fisheries Agency to take measures to assist small-scale fishermen