Japan Press Weekly

  It is sheer folly for Japan to pay costs of relocating U.S. Marines

Japan’s Defense Ministry budget request for the next fiscal year starting on April 1, 2009 includes expenditure for the relocation of 8,000 U.S. Marines to the U.S. territory of Guam in the South Pacific from Okinawa. The ministry also plans to station its staff in Hawaii, the stronghold of the U.S. Pacific Forces.

  Politics that made General Tamogami so arrogant

Tamogami Toshio, the chief of staff of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, was dismissed over an essay he wrote for an essay contest sponsored by a company, in which he said that it is “certainly a false accusation” to say that Japan was an aggressor nation in World War Two.

Government’s stimulus plan won’t protect the public from ailing economy

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said that Aso’s plan is aimed at invigorating major corporations, banks, and the wealthy, not at protecting people’s livelihoods during the economic downturn and that he has no intension to prevent such large corporations as Toyota and Nissan from implementing a storm of layoffs.

 It is sheer folly for Japan to pay costs of relocating U.S. Marines

People’s Spring Struggle Joint Committee holds meeting to discuss 2009 struggle

Nagoya District Court orders Toyota and Denso to pay compensation for work-related mental depression

High Court recognizes nurse’s death from overwork as work-related

Labor think tank proposes economic recovery by stimulating domestic demand

 Politics that made General Tamogami so arrogant

Air force chief dismissed over essay on Japan's aggression during World War II

Government’s stimulus plan won’t protect the public from ailing economy

Stop spoiling major banks that bully SMEs: JCP Sasaki

JCP Inoue urges the government to call on the U.S. for cancellation of air strikes in Afghanistan

Fuwa meets China’s party training institute deputy head

Former JCP vice-chair Ueda Koichiro dies

More than 30,000 children living without health insurance

6,500 rally against disabled persons ‘self-support’ law

JCP Sasaki says finance bill fails to improve availability of loans to smaller firms

U.S. airplane that crashed failed to report flight schedule

241 accidents involving U.S. military aircraft occur in Okinawa between 2003 and 2007

High court rejects charge that denies compulsory mass suicide during WWII

Court Decides to retry ‘Yokohama Incident’ case

Japan should not participate in COP14 agreement if the U.S. does not, states MOFA official

 Can people today really enjoy art and culture?