Japan Press Weekly

Urge Obama to fulfill promise to abolish nuclear weapons: Japan Gensuikyo

At a national meeting of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo), Secretary General Taka Hiroshi said, “Some argue that a change might be brought by the next U.S. administration led by Barack Obama. But our movement should be a driving force to force change. Let us turn the possibility to move toward a nuclear-free world into a reality.”

Farmers urge government to reject draft of WTO agriculture agreement

Warning that the latest World Trade Organization draft of an agreement on agriculture, if implemented, will have a catastrophic effect on Japanese agriculture, the progressive farmers’ association and a coalition of organizations of farmers, workers, and consumers urged the government to reject it.

JCP Chair Shii holds talks with Prime Minister Aso

Raising the urgent issue of temporary and fixed-term contract workers being laid off on short notice before the expiry of their contract term, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo said to Prime Minister Aso Taro, “The government should exercise its power to have the large corporations and business federations end these corporate practices immediately.”

JCP Chair Shii holds talks with Prime Minister Aso

JCP Ichida says Aso Cabinet is at dead end

U.S. Marines on Okinawa training with Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles

U.S. Air Force conducts operation readiness exercise in Okinawa

USFJ makes another helicopter emergency landing

Yokosuka residents hold action against U.S. nuclear-powered warship

Labor Minister promises to investigate Isuzu’s illegal dismissals

Contingent workers at Isuzu Motors form a labor union

Shii submits to government an urgent plan to defend jobs and SMEs

Workers in rally call for fundamental revision of the Worker Dispatch Law

Union fights against IBM Japan’s 1,000 dismissal plan

Zenroren calls on government to secure jobs

Canon fires contingent workers while adding 280 billion yen in surplus funds

Residents foil ASDF Tsuiki base expansion plan

Residents demands that state pay damages for mental suffering caused by SDF shells

 Tamogami question must be traced back to his appointment

Shii meets with Singaporean ambassador

New Japan Women’s Association has day of action calling for life free of anxieties

Democratic organizations hold rally in front of the Diet

Large number of the elderly will likely lose health insurance under adversely revised system

 We must continue to question Japan’s historical mistake: war of aggression

Activists take to the streets for peace action marking 67th anniversary of Pacific War

Urge Obama to fulfill promise to abolish nuclear weapons: Japan Gensuikyo

 Japan-proposed U.N. resolution fails to focus on abolition of nuclear weapons

Farmers urge government to reject draft of WTO agriculture agreement