Japan Press Weekly

Japan to use 610 billion yen for a bogus ‘relocation’ of U.S. Marines to Guam from Okinawa

In the May 1, 2006 Japan-U.S. Roadmap for Realignment Implementation, the Japanese government agreed to provide 6.09 billion dollars of the estimated 10.27 billion dollars as the facilities and infrastructure development costs for the III MEF relocation (8,000 Marines and their 9,000 families) to Guam.

  Democratic Party’s election for party leader is far from convincing the public

If the Democratic Party of Japan continues to provide excessively favorable treatment to large corporations and the financial circles, it will be unable to deal with the immediate problems that the majority of the public needs to solve even if it can take power.

U.S. government appreciates JCP Chair Shii’s letter on elimination of nuclear weapons

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on May 19 made public a letter he received from the U.S. government in response to his April 28 letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to take the initiative for starting international negotiations to conclude a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons.

Shii says supplementary budget does not help improve people’s livelihoods and nation’s economy

Ichida criticizes DPJ for its inability to come clean and make attempt to end party corruption

Former DPJ leader Ozawa appointed as acting president

Appointing Ozawa as acting president, the DPJ follows old-LDP politics

 Democratic Party’s election for party leader is far from convincing the public

New DPJ leader says it’s okay to start discussing constitutional revision

Scholars’ analyses shows DPJ as ambivalent and immature

Shii: Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary’s resignation shows Aso Cabinet as incurable

Corporations bought government policy of promoting ‘eco-point’ system

Diet approves U.S. Marine Corps ‘relocation’ to Guam from Okinawa

Japan to use 610 billion yen for a bogus ‘relocation’ of U.S. Marines to Guam from Okinawa

Former U.S. defense official urges Japan to play greater military role

Over 80 percent of U.S. servicemen committing crimes in Japan not prosecuted

Foreign workers in Japan are rising up

Court determines firing contract workers within contract term is unjust

Non-regular workers sue Nissan over dismissals

Major restaurant chain agrees to compensate for a non-regular restaurant manager’s death from overwork

Workers hold rally and demonstration calling for overhaul of Worker Dispatch Law

JCP to cooperate with airline workers’ unions on safe air transportation

Fixed-term contract workers at Nagahama Canon launch their own union and demand full-time positions

 Dispatching P3C patrol aircraft to areas off Somalia marks new stage of SDF missions abroad

JCP urges SDF to cancel plan to send quick reaction forces to Djibouti

‘We are not guinea pigs for pluthermal power generation!'

U.S. government appreciates JCP Chair Shii’s letter on elimination of nuclear weapons

JCP Vice Chair Ogata meets with Cuban Ambassador Fernandez de Cossío

Ogata meets with Egyptian ambassador

Ogata meets with Venezuelan ambassador