Japan Press Weekly

Koike calls for probe into alleged use of Cabinet’s secret funds for 2020 Olympic bid

It is suspected that state secret funds were used to create a photo album costing 200,000 yen per album for each of the 105 IOC members with photos from their playing days, and gave it to the 105 members, including legendary pole-vaulter Sergey Bubka.

Already 47% of estimated total landfill budget spent for only 14% of Henoko reclamation work

Only 14% of reclamation work has been done in preparation for the construction of a new U.S. military base in the Henoko area in Nago City, Okinawa, while 47% of the estimated total landfill budget was already spent as of 2022.

JCP sends a statement to the president of 2023 Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Representatives Kasai Akira, who is now visiting NYC, sent a written petition to the president of the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW and other relevant stakeholders.

Already 47% of estimated total landfill budget spent for only 14% of Henoko reclamation work

Koike calls for probe into alleged use of Cabinet’s secret funds for 2020 Olympic bid

Japan plans to deploy F35s in Japan – the same aircraft as used in Gaza airstrikes

All political parties except for JCP depend on gov’t subsidies

47th DYLJ Congress held and announces membership growth

SDF conducts on-campus PR activities at public universities

JCP sends a statement to the president of 2023 Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

JCP will participate in 2nd TPNW meeting together with Hibakusha and civil society representatives

Shii comments on 4-day pause in fighting in Gaza

Shii on X condemns N. Korea’s launch of ‘military spy satellite’