Japan Press Weekly

9th JCP municipal head elected

In Izu-Oshima, an island in the Tokyo administrative area located 120km south of Tokyo, Japanese Communist Party member Kawashima Masafumi was elected as the Oshima Town mayor on April 24, the 9th JCP municipal head in the country.

Victims must have input in recovery plan: Shii

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 22 at a press conference in the Diet stated that disaster reconstruction should proceed based on the principle that the “disaster sufferers and communities must be the key players.”

Business Circles use political donations as bait to promote nuclear power generation

Both the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan, in response to the business community’s request, have promoted nuclear power generation in an attempt to receive more corporate donations.

JCP protests against USS GW reentering Yokosuka

Drinking at USF ‘official event’ is regarded as part of ‘official duty’

Gov’t should meet demands of the handicapped: Shiokawa

 Disabled people and basic human rights

Business Circles use political donations as bait to promote nuclear power generation

JCP calls for investigation of residents’ radiation dose

Tokyo’s local legislators invited to TEPCO’s nuclear plant

Fukushima JCP calls on TEPCO to fully compensate victims for reactor accident

JCP urges KEPCO to inspect nuclear reactors

Power industry formulated tsunami guidelines for N-plants

TEPCO vice-president assumed future loss of power

82 men from N-plant companies hired by NISA

Gov’t and TEPCO must issue certificates to N-accident victims: Hidankyo

Gov’t has still not received radiation data from TEPCO

Victims must have input in recovery plan: Shii

Negative effect of ‘structural reform’ revealed in hospital in disaster area

 Urgent need provide healthy surroundings to evacuees

Shii talks with cooperative associations of fishermen and farmers regarding post-disaster recovery

Construction of temporary dwellings should be done by local companies at appropriate price: JCP

Top court determines Japanese Army’s involvement in wartime ‘mass suicides’ in Okinawa

9th JCP municipal head elected

JCP wins 1,031 seats in municipal elections

JCP Kasai hopes for early transfer of ‘Uigwe’ back to Korea

 Respect basic right to study for students in Korean schools in Japan