Japan Press Weekly

JCP proposes the bill for revision of the Worker Dispatch Law

The Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said, “If we do nothing about employers treating workers as disposable units without respecting their human dignity, there will be no bright future either for workers or for Japan’s economy and society on the whole.”

Japan should take up the issue of abolishing nuclear weapons at G8 Summit: JCP Inoue

Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councilors Inoue Satoshi said that Summit agreements have been bound by the “non-proliferation” framework and that the agenda for the upcoming Toyako Summit only refers to the implementation of the goal of the NPT.

  Stop U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier from being deployed to Yokosuka

A citizens’ group in Yokosuka City submitted to the local Election Administration Committee more than 50,000 signatures bearing citizens’ call for an ordinance to hold a referendum on the planned deployment of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the U.S. base in Tokyo Bay.

SDF men received training at U.S. bases in Okinawa 81 times in 3 years

 Stop U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier from being deployed to Yokosuka

New association established in Tokyo to consider U.S. Yokota Air Base issue

Okinawans in Tokyo demand drastic review of Japan-U.S. Status of U.S. Forces Agreement

JCP Dietmembers protest U.S. over frequent occurrence of U.S. military crimes

Okinawa’s local assembly protests against U.S. forces’ accidental dropping of bombs

Citizens rally in protest against U.S. serviceman’s murder of taxi driver

Part-timers file complaint for their unpaid overtime work to be paid

JCP proposes the bill for revision of the Worker Dispatch Law

Part-timers at pub-restaurant win late-night premiums in back pay

'In a private capacity' he attended political party: NHK official says

JCP Ichida meets with Nepalese ambassador

All 23 JCP candidates elected in 10 local assembly elections

JCP agricultural revitalization policy warmly accepted in Niigata

Japan should take up the issue of abolishing nuclear weapons at G8 Summit: JCP Inoue

Put N-weapons abolition on the G8 Summit agenda: Gensuikyo

Hibakusha demands government apology and recognition of all plaintiffs with A-bomb related diseases

More people say 'no' to constitutional revision than 'yes'

Journalists protest against pressure to ban documentary film

Supreme Court restricts freedom of expression

Symposium held to enact a new law to cut greenhouse gases