Japan Press Weekly

(June 1, 2007)

International panel to investigate Japanese teachers’ status

(June 1, 2007)

Toyota subcontractors paid Vietnamese trainees much less than minimum wage

(May 31, 2007)

LDP and Komei push pension bill through Lower House committee to evade state responsibility for pension fiasco

(May 31, 2007)

Government offers 6 billion yen for air pollution victims in Tokyo

(May 30, 2007)

Supreme Court refuses to compensate for ‘future damage’ in mammoth suit against noise pollution at U.S. Yokota Air Base

(May 30, 2007)

Wartime Mass suicide-experienced Okinawan village protests government textbook screening that denies forced ‘mass suicide’

(May 30, 2007)

Non-regular workers account for record-high 33.7% of labor force

(May 30, 2007)

Ogata meets with CPV delegation

(May 29, 2007)

JCP Kami criticizes Defense Ministry for being extremely lenient with sexual harassment perpetrators in SDF

(May 29, 2007)

Popular stage performers form labor union to fight wage cuts

(May 29, 2007)

Agriculture Minister Matsuoka commits suicide

(May 29, 2007)

Agriculture Minister’s suicide must not put an end to investigations into his scandals

(May 27, 2007)

'Japan Conference,' pro-Yasukuni force, makes up the core of Abe Cabinet

(May 27, 2007)

Pro-Yasukuni parliamentary groups backing up Abe Cabinet

(May 26, 2007)

Abe Cabinet trampling on environment assessment law to construct new U.S. base in Okinawa

(May 26, 2007)

LDP and Komei push bill through Lower House committee to dissolve Social Insurance Agency

(May 25, 2007)

LDP, Komei, and DPJ pass bill through Lower House to establish SDF unit to be deployed abroad

(May 25, 2007)

6 people arrested in forestry bid-riggings: Bureaucrats favored corporations that hire retired officials

(May 24, 2007)

Keidanren chair supports Abe’s plan to highlight constitutional revision policy in Upper House election

(May 24, 2007)

LDP received 360 million yen in donations from scandal-rocked insurance companies

(May 24, 2007)

It is shameful of Prime Minister Abe to continue to defend corrupt politicians

(May 24, 2007)

JCP opposes lifting restrictions on U.S. beef imports

(May 23, 2007)

Religionists’ Council for Peace issues appeal for establishing majority in defense of the Constitution

(May 23 & 24, 2007)

U.S. military realignment bill forcibly enacted

(May 23, 2007)

JCP Inoue calls for small-sized classes and increase in education budget

(May 23, 2007)

Mie Prefectural Assembly to abolish members’ overseas trip at public expense yielding to JCP demand

(May 22, 2007)

Government survey for new U.S. base construction destroys coral reefs

(May 22, 2007)

Government panel calls for drastically relaxing working rules

(May 21, 2007)

Pro-Yasukuni Dietmembers become increasingly active under the Abe Cabinet

(May 21, 2007)

Young workers in rally call for decent jobs

(May 21, 2007)

Local town assembly unanimously adopts ordinance to reject nuke waste disposal facility

(May 20, 2007)

Changing constitutional interpretations will lead Japan to wars

(May 19, 2007)

Defense Ministry uses MSDF to forcibly carry out survey for new U.S. base construction

(May 19, 2007)

3 education bills hastily passed through Lower House

(May 18, 2007)

3 base-hosting mayors express criticism of planned U.S. base realignment

(May 18, 2007)

JCP Ishii urges government to immediately cancel program showing pro-Yasukuni DVD video in schools

(May 18, 2007)

JCP holds 4th Central Committee Plenum

(May 17, 2007)

Diet begins discussion on bill to reorganize SDF for sending them overseas

(May 17, 2007)

U.S. F-15 training exercises begin at ASDF Komatsu base

(May 17, 2007)

3,200 people rally calling for defense of Constitution

(May 17, 2007)

Government plans to invalidate health insurance cards for failure of pension premium payment

(May 16, 2007)

Bill to extend SDF Iraq dispatch passed Lower House

(May 16, 2007)

Defense Minister admits possible use of SDF in survey on new U.S. base construction in Okinawa

(May 16, 2007)

Okinawa cities call on government to rescind order to remove from textbooks account of wartime ‘mass suicide’

(May 16, 2007)

JCP criticizes government bill to revise public service law in order to promote ‘Amakudari’

(May 15, 2007)

Constitutional revision procedure bill forcibly enacted

(May 15, 2007)

Bill to keep SDF in Iraq for 2 more years pushed through Lower House committee

(May 15, 2007)

U.S. night-landing practice at Atsugi base provokes residents’ resentment

(May 15, 2007)

JCP Chair sends congratulatory message to East Timor President-elect Ramos-Horta

(May 14, 2007)

15,000 people encircle U.S. Kadena base