Japan Press Weekly

  Stop U.S. low-flight exercises in Japan

Sonic booms from low-altitude flight training exercises conducted by U.S. military aircraft are disturbing residents across Japan and causing growing concerns about possible plane crashes.

Finance Ministry budget plan does nothing to ease public anxieties

The need now is for the budget compilation, as presented by the JCP “proposal for emergency economic measures”, to prevent the burden of the failure of “casino capitalism” from being shifted onto workers, small businesses, and the general public; support people’s livelihoods; and increase domestic demand instead of depending on foreign demand in order to restructure the Japanese economy.

Shii requests that Keidanren urge its member companies to stop massive job cuts

Amid the ongoing massive dismissals of contingent workers, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo met with a senior managing director of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) to request that the business organization urge its member companies to cancel their massive job cut plans.

Political parties (except JCP) receive 32 billion yen in government subsidies

LDP, DPJ, and Komei party members of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly wasted tax money on ‘study tours’ abroad

JCP in Diet demands that government urge U.S. forces to end live-fire exercise in order to protect residents from stray bullets

Okinawa legislature unanimously demands immediate halt to live-shell drills

 Stop U.S. low-flight exercises in Japan

 Cause of radioactivity leaks have not been established –U.S. nuclear-powered submarine

Unionists in rally urge Keidanren to secure employment

Two temporary workers at Mitsubishi Fuso join labor union to oppose dismissal notice

Keidanren report calls for wage restraint and goes against best way to rebuild Japan’s economy

Shii requests that Keidanren urge its member companies to stop massive job cuts

Large corporations should cancel massive dismissal of temporary and fixed-term contract workers and fulfill their social responsibilities: JCP’s statement to Nippon Keidanren

Air SDF personnel visited Class-A war criminals’ tomb

 Stop government ‘reform’ of childcare services

Finance Ministry budget plan does nothing to ease public anxieties

Finance Ministry proposes 3.5-fold budget increase to pay for U.S. military realignment in Japan

4.7 billion yen claimed as cost to prepare constitutional revision

High school students participate in sit-in demanding increase in education budget

Okinawan assembly amends environmental ordinance to allow authorities to enter U.S. bases for investigation of pollution