Japan Press Weekly

Hidankyo asks for JCP’s cooperation in improving government support for 2nd-generation Hibakusha

The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) asked Japanese Communist Party parliamentarians for their cooperation to push the government to improve its measures to support second-generation Hibakusha.

Shii criticizes LDP's proposal to attack enemy's military nerve center

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo commented on a draft proposal of a Liberal Democratic Party security panel headed by former Defense Minister Onodera Itsunori regarding amendments to the government security strategy.

JCP Yamazoe demands that Japan grant refugee status to Ukraine evacuees

JCP member of the House of Councilors Yamazoe Taku demanded that the Japanese government drastically revise its refugee recognition procedures and grant refugee status to people who were forced to leave Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion.

JCP Yamazoe demands that Japan grant refugee status to Ukraine evacuees

Shii calls for public opposition to Defense Ministry’s recognition of antiwar protest as gray-zone emergency

Shii criticizes LDP's proposal to attack enemy's military nerve center

US marine in Okinawa indicted on charge of sexual assault on woman

Okinawa's Ginoza Village Assembly protests against USMC ‘hanging drills’

As demanded by union/JCP, unemployment benefit program will assist pandemic-induced loss of employment

Hidankyo asks for JCP’s cooperation in improving government support for 2nd-generation Hibakusha

Shii at Rainbow Pride festival expresses his determination to work hard to enact LGBTQ equality law

Hibakusha and peace activists submit over 960K signatures calling for Japan's participation in UN N-ban treaty

JCP donates \29 million to UN WFP for Ukraine

JCP Kasai attends meeting between Japanese lawmakers and delegation sent by incoming S. Korean leader

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