Japan Press Weekly

Shii reports on his visit to the U.S.

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo reported on the outcome of his visit to the United States at an inner-party meeting on May 21.

Rengo-affiliate NTT union does not speak for workers

“The union didn’t protect us at all.” “Is this really a workers’ union?” Former contract workers of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation Hokkaido Branch (NTT East - Hokkaido) are raising this question concerning the NTT Trade Union’s function.

PM announces keeping Futenma in Okinawa

Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio officially announced Okinawa’s Henoko district as a site to shift the U.S. Futenma base to at a meeting with Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu on May 23.

JCP members are there for you

Do you know that there are 406,000 Japanese Communist Party members in Japan? This means that about one out of every 250 people of the population aged 18 or over is a JCP member. Akiba Shigeru, 61, is one of them.

JCP Sasaki criticizes ruling bloc for forcibly steering Diet

JCP Kasai urges gov’t to agree on roadmap to ban N-arms

High-sea inspections of N-Korean ships create more tensions

JCP Kokuta says Diet must summon Ozawa

JCP Kasai attends North Korean residents’ association annual meeting

Hatoyama Cabinet justifies SDF dispatch to Iraq

Workers sit in to demand a change in law to protect temps

Rengo-affiliate NTT union does not speak for workers

JCP proposals to make bill effective in protecting temps

Bill to revise the Worker Dispatch Law should be thoroughly discussed: Zenroren

JCP members are there for you

Shii speaks at Foreign Correspondents’ Club

Shii reports on his visit to the U.S.

JCP holds symposium on solving issue of child-care center

Elderly citizens fight to have livelihood protection benefit reinstated

JCP Koike: Hatoyama’s betrayal an insult

PM announces keeping Futenma in Okinawa

Shii: A-bombed Japan must clearly support progress in NPT Review Conference

Minister promises support for farmers affected by foot-and-mouth outbreak

Court orders state to pay damages for asbestos exposure

Court drops Chinese victims’ claim over poison gas leak

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