Japan Press Weekly

LDP and DPJ field pro-Yasukuni candidates in House of Councilors election

The pro-Yasukuni force, which says that Japan’s past war of aggression was a “just war,” is putting up like-minded candidates under the ticket of the Liberal Democratic Party or the Democratic Party of Japan in the upcoming House of Councilors election.

Abe’s rampage is further deepening cabinet crisis: JCP Shii on forcible passage of pension bills

In defiance of the sharp public criticism of the government mismanagement of public pension, the LDP and Komei Party used their majority at the Lower House plenary session to bulldoze through pension bills.

JCP member elected Warabi City mayor

Commenting on the victory over an LDP and Komei Party-backed candidate, JCP Secretariat Head Ichida said, “Residents’ demands for a halt to wasteful use of tax money and cancellation of increases in tax burdens helped achieve this victory.”

Advertising agencies are heavily engaged in politics

Supreme Court refuses to compensate for ‘future damage’ in mammoth suit against noise pollution at U.S. Yokota Air Base

Popular stage performers form labor union to fight wage cuts

Non-regular workers account for record-high 33.7% of labor force

Toyota subcontractors paid Vietnamese trainees much less than minimum wage

JCP Kami criticizes Defense Ministry for being extremely lenient with sexual harassment perpetrators in SDF

 GSDF Central Readiness Regiment: advance force to fight in wars abroad

Ogata meets with CPV delegation

LDP and Komei push pension bill through Lower House committee to evade state responsibility for pension fiasco

Abe’s rampage is further deepening cabinet crisis: JCP Shii on forcible passage of pension bills

50 million pension records remain unidentified

'Japan Conference,' pro-Yasukuni force, makes up the core of Abe Cabinet

Pro-Yasukuni parliamentary groups backing up Abe Cabinet

Pro-Yasukuni Dietmember appointed as new Agriculture Minister

LDP and DPJ field pro-Yasukuni candidates in House of Councilors election

Wartime Mass suicide-experienced Okinawan village protests government textbook screening that denies forced ‘mass suicide’

International panel to investigate Japanese teachers’ status

JCP member elected Warabi City mayor

Government offers 6 billion yen for air pollution victims in Tokyo

Victims urge government and automakers to settle air-pollution dispute

Minamata-disease patients demand early relief