Japan Press Weekly

Japanese forests being bought out by foreign capital

Foreign companies have been buying up Japanese forests one after another, presumably to acquire water resources as the global demand for water is increasing.

Unfair taxation: heavier burden on SMEs, more benefits for large firms

Amid unrelenting price cut orders, many subcontractors cannot add the consumption tax to their selling prices and fall behind in the tax payment. Large corporations, on the other hand, are not only able to shift the consumption tax onto their selling prices, they get their taxes refunded.

Japan’s entry into TPP will cost 3.5 million jobs

If Japan enters into the TPP free-trade pact, 3.5 million people will lose their jobs in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and their related industries, says the Agriculture Ministry.

Vote-value disparity expands

FY2011 budget draft passed Lower House

Subsidy denied to Nago City for not accepting new US base

 Exporting military propellers undermines ban on arms trade

Libraries worldwide prohibited from disclosing users’ info

Restaurant chain gives up unfair overtime system

Japan’s entry into TPP will cost 3.5 million jobs

Consumption tax hike will hurt elderly and SMEs in particular

Unfair taxation: heavier burden on SMEs, more benefits for large firms

To offer change in Tokyo Gov’t, JCP holds speech rally

JCP candidate works hard for flower farmer

JCP Shii meets with EU ambassador

Court orders AstraZeneca to compensate ‘Iressa’ victims

57th annual ‘Bikini Day’ events start

Tokyo residents sue over moving of fish market to polluted site

Tokyo’s availability of nursing care ranked at bottom nationwide

Cancel involvement in water business abroad: JCP Yoshida to Metropolitan Gov’t

Proposed by Koike, state-owned land to be used for childcare centers

Environmental group opposes Japan’s entry into TPP

Clarify the cause of nuclear plant accidents: JCP in Tokai Village

Japanese forests being bought out by foreign capital

Electric company forcibly builds nuclear power plant