Japan Press Weekly

(January, 1 and 7, 2019)

Hibakusha in this year’s first monthly ‘6th and 9th action’ call for Japan’s ratification of antinuke UN treaty

(January 6, 2019)

Independent contractors for TEPCO subsidiary unionized

(January, 5, 2019)

Shii in New Year assembly calls for stepping up efforts to win Upper House and simultaneous local elections

(January 3, 2019)

Japan should repair relations with South Korea based on remorse over its colonial rule

(January 3, 2019)

Abe gov't sells national sovereignty piece by piece

(December 26, 2018)

BOJ shoulders huge amount of Japanese government bonds

(December 22, 2018)

Koike: FY2019 draft budget would ruin Japanese society

(December 19-22, 2018)

JCP delegation in Vietnam

(December 21, 2018)

Okinawans’ protest against Henoko base project receives solidarity from abroad

(December 21, 2018)

Okinawa prefectural assembly passes resolution regarding arrest of US deserter armed with a gun

(December 16, 2018)

Japan’s national trade union centers resolve to unite to defend Constitution

Due to the New Year holidays, our next update will appear on January 11, 2019.

(December 20, 2018)

Nakasone gov't in 80s feared loss of 'nuclear umbrella'

(December 20, 2018)

Declassified documents suggest Foreign Ministry accepted secret pact on bringing-in of US nuclear weapons to Okinawa

(December 20, 2018)

Unfairly-fired art professors in Nagoya struggle in court for right to return to work

(December 20, 2018)

Foreign workers’ treatment at Sharp factory violates Worker Dispatch Law: Labor Ministry

(December 20, 2018)

Japan is running last in disinvestment from coal-fired power

(December 19, 2018)

JCP Koike comments on Abe government’s new defense program

(December 19, 2018)

UNGA adopts declaration on peasants’ rights

(December 18, 2018)

Japan needs to fulfill its responsibility to implement Paris accord rules at COP24

(December 18, 2018)

JCP demands effective and enforceable law to eradicate workplace harassment

(December 18, 2018)

Abe-driven shipment of NPP projects to overseas flounders

(December 18, 2018)

This week's JCP international activity

(December 17, 2018)

Presence of JCP brings about progressive changes in prefectural assemblies

(December 16, 2018)

Foreign minister ignores reporters' questions on ‘Northern Territories’

(December 15, 2018)

Shii as member of parliamentary union speaks on Korean 'forced laborers' with President Moon

(December 15, 2018)

Abe gov’t forcibly begins filling landfill areas in sea off Henoko

(December 14, 2018)

Gov’t will impose heavier burdens on low-income elderly while setting largest-ever military buildup budget

(December 14, 2018)

Mass dismissals of foreign workers at Sharp plant is illegal: JCP Koike

(December 14, 2018)

Rally held to oppose Kyoto City’s move to provide personal data to SDF

(December 13, 2018)

Benefits of pro-business ‘Abenomics’ don’t trickle down

(December 13, 2018)

More than 110,000 Miyagi voters seek local vote on Onagawa NPP

(December 13, 2018)

Japan opposes UN resolution calling to promote UN nuclear weapons ban treaty

(December 12, 2018)

Abe gov’t to allow SDF to possess aircraft carrier in violation of the Constitution

(December 11, 2018)

Extraordinary Diet session materializes failure of Abe’s high-handed policies

(December 11, 2018)

Ex-Nissan chair Ghosn rearrested

(December 11, 2018)

Settlement of wartime forced labor issue is possible

(December 9, 2018)

Abe gov't forcibly enacts controversial bills

(December 9, 2018)

Nationwide peace actions held to protect Article 9 on 77th anniversary of start of Pacific War

(December 7 and 8, 2018)

2 US military aircraft collide with each other and crash into sea off Kochi

(December 8, 2018)

174 foreign trainees died in eight years

(December 8, 2018)

Court prohibits rightist group from disrupting screening of film on ‘comfort women’

(December 7, 2018)

85% of runaway Vietnamese trainees conned out of unfair commissions to come to Japan

(December 5 and 6, 2018)

Upper House committee passes bill on water privatization

(December 6, 2018)

Japan swimming against global tide of return to public management of water services

(December 6, 2018)

Foreign workers in building industry under special measures scheme used as cheap labor

(December 5, 2018)

Japan to give up export of nuclear power plant to Turkey

(December 5, 2018)

A Sharp factory in Japan fired 3K foreign workers within one year

(December 4, 2018)

67% of ‘runaway’ foreign trainees paid less than Japan’s minimum wage

(December 4, 2018)

This week's JCP international activity