Japan Press Weekly

(March 27, 2007)

Shii in campaign speeches emphasizes that struggles for great cause will have important bearings on the future

(March 27, 2007)

Distortion of historical issue of sex slaves coincides with constitutional revision: JCP Chair Shii

(March 27, 2007)

Child-rearing flight attendants win suit against JAL’s pay cuts

(March 27, 2007)

FY 2007 budget bill expanding gaps between rich and poor enacted

(March 27, 2007)

Abduction and ‘comfort women’ are totally different issues: PM Abe

(March 27, 2007)

Hibakusha and hepatitis C patients to hold sit-ins to protest Health Ministry

(March 27, 2007)

JCP Ogata Talks with South Korean Parliament Members

(March 26, 2007)

Government position on wartime sex slave issue undermines its position on North Korea’s abduction issue

(March 25, 2007)

Bill to implement U.S. military realignment only to deepen Japan’s aberrations

(March 24, 2007)

JCP Akamine demands bill to facilitate U.S. forces realignment be withdrawn

(March 24, 2007)

Bill to make betrayal obligatory passes through Lower House

(March 24, 2007)

Court orders state and drug makers to pay damages for hepatitis C virus infection from tainted blood

(March 24, 2007)

Increase education budget, slash world’s highest college tuition fees

(March 23, 2007)

Gubernatorial candidates begin campaigning in 13 prefectures with JCP participating in all of them

(March 23, 2007)

Five of six speakers at public hearing warn against hasty discussion of the bill to establish procedures for revision of the Constitution

(March 23, 2007)

7 1/2 hour-long N-plant criticality accident concealed for nearly 30 years

(March 21 & 23, 2007)

Hibakusha win another lawsuit against government

(March 21, 2007)

Withdraw SDF from Iraq, scrap bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision: JCP Ichida at anti-Iraq War rally

(March 20 & 21, 2007)

At 4 other N-plants, control rods fell off

(March 20, 2007)

Government implementing BMD program to be used as shield in U.S. preemptive attack strategy

( March 20, 2007)

Invalidation of health insurance cards actually worsens patients’ illnesses: JCP survey

(March 20, 2007)

Immediately withdraw SDF from Iraq!

(March 19, 2007)

Confrontation between ‘all-are-ruling-parties’ and JCP: nationwide gubernatorial elections

(March 19, 2007)

SDF to establish intelligence unit supporting its activities abroad

(March 18, 2007)

Japan Post awarded contracts to its outside board members’ companies

(March 17, 2007)

Vietnamese ‘trainees’ call for unpaid wages to be paid

(March 17, 2007)

Former Livedoor president Horie gets prison sentence

(March 16, 2007)

JCP publishes 3-pillar urgent proposal for decent work rules

(March 16, 2007)

Ruling parties forcibly adopt schedule for public hearing on bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision

(March 16, 2007)

Nuclear reactor’s criticality accident covered up

(March 16, 2007)

Ichida meets with Cuban Ambassador

(March 15, 2007)

Shii on TV talks about how JCP is campaigning in Tokyo gubernatorial election

(March 15, 2007)

Unions in Spring Struggle obtain wage raise from major manufacturers for the second consecutive year

(March 15, 2007)

For three diseases, 180-day limitation on insurance-covered rehabilitation to be removed

(March 14, 2007)

JCP Kami calls on Abe to halt EPA negotiations with Australia

(March 14, 2007)

Abe Cabinet approves 3 labor-related bills

(March 14, 2007)

180,000 people take part in nationwide day of action in opposition to higher tax

(March 13, 2007)

Abe undermines parliamentary democracy by attempting to push through bill to establish procedures for constitutional revision: JCP Shii

(March 13, 2007)

Even with 16-hour work days, dump truck drivers earn less than minimum wage level

(March 11, 2007)

Shii criticizes Abe for his remarks on wartime sex slavery

(March 11, 2007)

13,000 people in JCP speech meeting resolve to win victories in local elections in Tokyo

(March 10, 2007)

Victims of Tokyo air raid in WWII sue government

(March 10, 2007)

U.S. indiscriminate bombardment violated international law: Tokyo air raid lawsuit lawyers

(March 10, 2007)

Tokyo air raid commemorated

(March 10, 2007)

Realignment agreement allows U.S. forces in Okinawa to do anything they want

(March 9, 2007)

Deregulations force unsafe operations in chartered bus industry: JCP Kobayashi

(March 9, 2007)

Japanese women celebrate International Women’s Day

(March 9, 2007)

JCP Ishii attends gathering to mark International Women’s Day at Chinese Embassy

(March 8, 2007)

PM Abe attempts to break stalemate by pushing for constitutional revision

(March 7, 2007)

Workers converge for victory in Spring Struggle