Japan Press Weekly

Cross-party parliamentarians’ league formed to reform retrial system to save victims of wrongful convictions

Pointing out that the miscarriage of justice constitutes one of the gravest violations of human rights, the cross-party group aims to achieve an early amendment of the provisions regarding retrials in the Criminal Procedure Code.

Rally held to promote gender quota system in Diet

In an international comparison of the percentage of female parliamentarians, Japan ranks 164th out of 186 countries. A law which aims to equalize candidates between men and women, was enacted in Japan in 2018, but the law has no binding force.

  Decade after Japan’s ratification of UN treaty for persons with disabilities

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities examined the state of progress of Japanese measures, finding that Japan is far from a society where persons with disabilities can participate in in the same way as persons without disabilities.

Yamazoe: Gov’t should not accept US plan to lift Osprey flight ban

Okinawa Governor and residents living near Yokota AB in western suburbs of Tokyo oppose restart of Osprey flights

Local dockworkers go on strike to protest call of USS Rafael Peralta at Ishigaki Port

Union urges Tokyo gov’t to withdraw its unfair dismissals of 250 school counselors

Amid fierce protest from Okinawans, anti-ship missile equipment deployed in SDF base in Uruma City

 Decade after Japan’s ratification of UN treaty for persons with disabilities

Rally held to promote gender quota system in Diet

On International Women’s Day in Japan, rally calling for legalization of selective dual surname system held

Cross-party parliamentarians’ league formed to reform retrial system to save victims of wrongful convictions